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My wife Philippa was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukaemia (a Blood Cancer) on 20th April 2022 and very sadly died on 22nd April 2022 while being treated with Chemotherapy at St James’s Hospital in Leeds. Leaving three young children aged 12, 10 and 6.

We are raising funds for research into treatments of Acute Myeloid Leukaemia. Currently the survival rate for the type of Blood Cancer that Philippa had is just 10%. Research can made a real difference, through the work of BloodCancerUK the survival rates for childhood Leukaemia has improved from just 10% to over 85%. We want to support the same for Acute Myeloid Leukaemia.

With BloodCancerUK we will be funding a specific research project into Acute Myeloid Leukaemia. A 3 year fully funded research programme will cost £300,000.

In April 2023 to mark the first anniversary of Philippa’s death I cycled 1,600kms from Land’s End to John OGrouts in just 8 days. 200kms a day, 2000m of climbing and around 12 hours of cycling every day for 8 days in a row.

I was supported all the way by three friends on bikes (Richard Baldwin, Adam Ellis and Anthony Frazer) and Miles Foster in the support vehicle.

In May 2024 with Richard and Adam I cycled to the top of Mount Everest (at least the same elevation of 29,000ft) up the same hill past the churchyard, where Philippa is buried, 90 times. We started at 3am and finished just after 1am the following day but supported by so many friends and family.

In 2025 I will run the London Marathon, but to make it a bit more challenging I will cycle from St James’ church to London on a 42 year old tandem bike (Philippa was 42 when she died).

Having been able to fully fund the research at Cardiff University we are now starting to work towards further research at York University.

Our story has been captured on our Instagram page

https://www.instagram.com/team_badger_bloodcancer

Thank you to those that have supported us so far.

James, Isabel, Alice and Thomas