My sister Alice died by suicide on 26 May 2022 at the age of 20. On 25 May 2024 I will be running 100km (62 miles) from London to Brighton, where Alice lived and died, in her memory.

Alice was a transgender woman who had been on the waiting list to receive gender-affirming care for 1,023 days at the time of her death. I believe that the inaccessibility of trans healthcare contributed to Alice’s death and made it harder for Alice to imagine and plan her future.

When someone dies an unnatural or unexplained death in the UK, an inquest takes place to investigate the circumstances of their death. I know from going through Alice's inquest that the process is overwhelming and painful, but that it can also be an opportunity to campaign for change and draw attention to injustice. Having proper support and legal representation at Alice’s inquest allowed us to highlight healthcare failings that contributed to Alice’s death and to hold public bodies to account.

INQUEST is a charity which provides support to families through the inquest process where someone has died a state related death. Their specialist casework includes deaths in police and prison custody, immigration detention, mental health settings and wider issues of state and corporate accountability. I'm raising money for them in Alice's memory because I believe they provide invaluable support for bereaved families and that their work helps prevent future wrongful deaths.

You can read more about what INQUEST does here: https://www.inquest.org.uk/about-us