Sammy Jo Brandon Foundation Marathon Team 2021

One more sleep (if our marathon runners get any) - Team SJBF has changed so many times over the last 18 months but we have a team of 9 runners - we can't thank them enough from All of Us at Sammy Jo Brandon Foundation and Children With Cancer UK and to everyone who has donated you have been amazing 

Wishing all the below all the very best for the big day - its been a long time coming - we will have a cheer point - setting up along the highway so we get to see them twice -

Billy Lander, Harry Papanastasiou,  Jordan Ware, James Dyson, Mark Lewis, Daniel Kingsman, Danielle Robinson,Tom Martin and Shakil Miah - wishing them all the very best of luck

Update 29th September 2021 - Unfortunately  Nathan Hobley has an injury and is now unable to run - wishing him a speedy recovery

Update 20th September 2021 - Unfortunately Kye Holloway is unable to run for us now this year 

Update 8th September 2021 - We have a new runner James Dyson welcome to Team SJBF - Unfortunately Grace Dukelow is unable to participate in October due to being poorly and has been unable to train - we wish her a speedy recovery and hope to see you in the team next October  

Update 1st August 2021 - Unfortunately David Foster is unable to participate in October - we were unable to replace him as registration for October had closed 

Update 22nd July 2021 - Unfortunately due to a injury Rob Howe is unable to run for us in October - we wish him a speedy recovery - as the registration for October had closed were were unable to replace him

Update 20th July 2021 - Unfortunately due to a injury Tony Hodges is unable to run for us in October - we wish him a speedy recovery - Tony has been replaced by Shakil Miah - Shakil welcome to Team SJBF 

Update 25th June 2021 - Unfortunately due to a injury Peter Maynard is unable to run for us in October - we wish him a speedy recovery - Peter has been replaced with Tom Martin - Tom welcome to Team SJBF

Sammy Jo Brandon Foundation Marathon Team 2021

Billy Lander, Harry Papanastasiou,  Jordan Ware, Grace Dukelow, David Foster, Mark Lewis, Daniel Kingsman, Tony Hodges, Scott Coleman, Nathan Hobley, Robert Howe, Ryan Millard, Danielle Robinson, Kye Holloway and Tom Martin - wishing them all the very best of luck

Update 7th May 2021: London Marathon Sunday 3rd October 2021 is going ahead - with less than 5 months to go our Team of 15 runners have begun preparing for the event.

Sammy Jo Brandon Foundation Marathon Team 2021

Peter Maynard, Billy Lander, Harry Papanastasiou,  Jordan Ware, Grace Dukelow, David Foster, Mark Lewis, Daniel Kingsman, Tony Hodges, Scott Coleman, Nathan Hobley, Robert Howe, Ryan Millard, Danielle Robinson and Kye Holloway - wishing them all the very best of luck

Prior to lockdown we raised 50% of our £37,500 target, we really do need your support to hit our 100%. We have set ourselves a very large target to hit this year so your donation is so very much appreciated (don't forget gift aid) 

All charities not just SJBF have suffered due to lack of fundraising during COVID-19 and we would like to encourage everyone to dig deep and donate to all worthy charitable causes

We have several SJBF events in the diary in the next couple months so hopefully we can get ourselves back out there promoting SJBF supporting Children with Cancer UK, all proceeds raised go to their ongoing projects into childrens cancer research

Any donations big or small really does go a long way. We look forward to hopefully seeing you all soon at one of our events

Thanking you all in advance, take care and keep safe

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Update: Due to COVID the London Marathon has been postponed for all charity runners until October 2021 - there is a Virtual Marathon on the 4th October 2020 that a few of our runners have signed up to do - Good Luck to all of them - thank you to everyone who has donated so far - we really do appreciate it 

In 2019 we had 11 family and friends running the London Marathon for Sammy Jo Brandon Foundation -  2020 we have 24 runners - thank you to each and everyone of you below

Sammy Jo Brandon Foundation London Marathon Team 2020

Charlie Munns, Peter Maynard, Nikki Vazanias, Matthew Rossi, Lynsey Clark, Billy Lander, Ellie Jones, Lauren Clark, Caroline Wilson, Katie Hedden, Joshua Basi, Tom Pritchard, Harry Papanastasiou, Ricky Townsend, Jordan Ware, Grace Dukelow, David Foster, Conor McNamara, Billy Brook, Mark Lewis, Daniel Kingsman, Tony Hodges, Scott Coleman and Stephen Yates 

Unfortunately due to the London Marathon being postponed until 4th October, we have 5 runners who are unable to participate then so we have replaced them with 5 new runners Rob Howe, Danielle Robertson, Ryan Scougall, Nathan Hobley and Ryan Millard 

Please support and sponsor their journey as they partake in this gruelling event in memory of Sammy Jo Brandon

Sammy Jo lost her battle at 29 years old to Triple Negative Breast Cancer (8.8.88 - 14.5.18) - Sammy Jo always wanted children of her own and she would get upset knowing children were going through the same horrific effects of her treatment. February 2018 we got the devastating news the Cancer had returned in her brain and lungs and only had weeks to live, over the following weeks there was a lot of hard conversations with her, one of them being raising money at her funeral and she said the money raised must go to Children With Cancer UK. We raised £6,485 - a few days after her funeral Sammy Jo's cousin Robyn suggested we start a foundation in her name which we all though was a great idea so a few months later it was all set up - on 8th August 2019 (Sammy Jo Birthday and the Foundation's 1st Birthday) through lots of hard work from Kim (Mum), Dad (Matt), Danny (Brother), Robyn (Cousin), Jack (Sammy Jo's Boyfriend) and all our family/friends, we have had several events and lots of donations we were able to hand over £88,088.88 to Children With Cancer UK what an achievement in our first year - in our second year on Sammy Jo's birthday 8.8.2020 we handed over £44,088.88 which was well below what we had hoped for but due to COVID all our events were either cancelled/postponed - On Sammy Jo's birthday 8.8.2021 we managed to get a few events and donations in and was able to hand over £16,088.88 - fingers crossed this coming year we are able to get back up and running properly. We have already had a Football Match SJB v Celebs & Ex Pros and a Golf Day & Evening event  - just waiting on final totals from both events then will post on our social media sites (see below)- we also have coming up our After Marathon/Christmas Black Tie Dinner & Dance to look forward to.  We know if we have only saved one child's life from cancer, we are fulfilling Sammy Jo's wishes 

When you lose someone it leaves you devastated, Sammy Jo was loved by so many people, once you had met her with her infectious laugh you never forgot her.

You can follow the Sammy Jo's journey and the foundation on

Website - www.sammyjobrandonfoundation.org.uk

Facebook - Sammy Jo Brandon Foundation

Instagram - @sammyjobrandonfoundation_

Twitter - @FoundationSammy 

We have set ourselves a very large target to hit this year so your donation is so very much appreciated (don't forget gift aid)