‘Maggie Lomas was my elder sister. In 1996 she was diagnosed with Kidney failure. She received great care from St James Hospital in Leeds but after several months had to have dialysis three times each week. Although life saving, the treatments limited her life considerably. She could not work or go on holidays, and she caught several infections. In 1999, due to a family’s great generosity in deciding to donate the kidney of a relative who had died, she received a Kidney transplant on her 35th birthday! This enabled her to have 16, happy and healthy years where she was able to work and travel. She travelled to New Zealand, Australia and USA and became a chemistry tutor- work, which she loved.

She was a great personality loved by all her family and her numerous good friends, sadly she died in March 2016 after catching fungal pneumonia.

Due to the generosity of strangers, Maggie enjoyed many years of normal living. We want to raise money in her memory for Yorkshire Kidney Research; this will, hopefully, enable others to be given the chance that Maggie had’.

Richard Lomas

Jill and I are running the Monsal Trail Half Marathon

We want to raise as much money as possible for Yorkshire Kidney Research 

How much do we want to raise?

Our aim to to try and raise £200.