I am running the London Marathon in April 2017 in memory of my lovely Grandad Alex for Alzheimer's Research UK who power world class studies that give us the best chance of beating dementia sooner.

Together we have the power to defeat dementia.

Over 850,000 people live with Dementia in the UK and that number is rapidly rising

At £24 billion each year, dementia costs the UK economy more than cancer and heart disease combined but over two thirds of the care for Dementia patients is paid for by themselves or their family.

* £20 pays for 1 hour of pioneering dementia research.

* £100 could provide the tools for scientists to map 10,000 genes in minute detail, identifying targets for the development of new treatments.

* £500 will cover the cost of a sensitive brain scan for a patient involved in a research study, tracking the effectiveness of new drug treatments, improving diagnosis and better understanding how diseases like Alzheimer’s wreak their havoc in the brain.

* £1000 will pay for reagents, unique chemicals that are crucial for successfully growing cells in a laboratory ready for disease study.

* £2500 will allow researchers to buy synthetically made amyloid, to better understand this hallmark Alzheimer’s protein in the lab.