Thank you for taking the time to read my story.

I am raising money for two fantastic charities, The St. James’s Place Charitable Foundation and Cancer Research UK by running in Cancer Research UK’s 10k Race for Life at Blackheath on 30th June.

In raising funds for the St. James’s Place Charitable Foundation and Cancer Research UK. St. James’s Place will match £ for £ any funds raised for Cancer Research UK, with the matched funds being used to benefit the amazing charitable causes supported by the Foundation.

The St. James’s Place Charitable Foundation funds small and medium sized charities across the UK and overseas working with children who are disadvantaged physically, socially or economically. They also fund hospices, mental health charities and cancer support charities.

In September 2022, on the day after my 45th birthday, I was admitted to the Royal London Hospital where I was treated for three and a half months for a very rare and aggressive disease called Cancer of the Bile Duct.

This cancer has no cause and is typically found in people over the age of 65.

The bile ducts are a tributary network which drain bile from the liver. I was extremely lucky to have been able to have surgery (the surgeons removed 60% of my liver and bile ducts). 90% of people with this cancer are sadly not able to have surgery.

In January 2023 I started six months of chemotherapy which took me up until the end of July. Throughout September and October I was extremely lucky to receive a type of radiotherapy that is only available in two hospitals in the U.K.

All three of the treatments I had were examples of the amazing work that Cancer Research UK have done and I quite simply would not be alive today if it was not for them.

A 10k run might not sound like a lot, but for me, just to be able to enter this race represents an enormous achievement. I have started my training and have been encouraged by my progress to date.

I have set myself the ambitious target of raising £10,000 for the St. Jame’s Place Charitable Foundation which would mean that £10,000 would also be matched by St. James’s Place and given to Cancer Research U.K.

Thank you for taking the time to read my story.

Cancer survival rates have doubled in the last 40 years following huge advances in treatments.

Sadly, statistically, 1 in 2 people will have cancer during their lifetime.

Before you decide whether to sponsor me or how much to sponsor me, all I ask is that the next time you are with your family, or at your place of work, or in the pub, or at the theatre or a football stadium or the golf club, you take a look around. The chances are that half of those people will suffer from cancer in their life.

Let’s do all we can to help find cures for all forms of this horrible disease.

Thank you for your support in helping me achieve my goal!