Thank you for your interest in sponsoring me to raise funds for Your Place. This is the charity I work for and we are a charity dedicated to solving homelessness in east London. It’s a place where each person is seen and heard, their needs understood and their onward journey to independence supported in a way that works for them. It’s a place to call their own, while they recover and rebuild. A compassionate community with a caring team around them, offering individual help with health, education and employment. How this happens — how they get back on their feet and reach a better place — is up to them. It’s their place for the time they need.

I will be participating in the London triathlon T100 on 29th July which involves 2km swim/80km cycle/18km run. The event will mark a couple of important landmarks for me. I have been working in the homelessness /housing sector for 40 years and sadly the homelessness crisis in this country continues to remain at unacceptable levels. It will also will be my 20th year as a 'triathlete' and I am so grateful that I still enjoy good health to be able to be involved.