I’m running the 2025 London Marathon for Brain Research UK; an organisation dedicated to research into neurological conditions such as brain tumours and epilepsy.

I've chosen to run for Brain Research UK as I was diagnosed with a benign brain tumour in June 2021, shortly after my 25th birthday.

I've always been a keen runner and it was while out for an evening run that I first started to experience double vision, which was a strange, disorientating experience. Several optician and hospital appointments later, I was told that my double vision was being caused by a brain tumour pushing on my optic nerve. It was a very scary time for me and my family with a lot of unknowns and uncertainty.

In August 2021 I underwent a 12-hour surgery to debulk my brain tumour. Most of the tumour was thankfully able to be removed and the small part that was left has shrunk further following six weeks of radiotherapy.

The journey to recovery hasn't been easy and there've been many ups and downs along the way, but the desire to get back into running was always a great motivation for me. Running the London Marathon to raise money for Brain Research UK therefore feels like a full circle moment and one that I'm very grateful for.

I'm also running the London Marathon in memory of my best friend Rosie’s beautiful, kind big sister, Rubecca Williams, who passed away unexpectedly due to epilepsy in 2022, aged just 32.

Any donations will be gratefully received. Thank you 💜

About Brain Research UK

Brain Research UK is the UK’s leading national funder dedicated to research into neurological conditions. Your support means that we can continue to fund vital research to increase understanding, improve diagnosis and treatment, and work towards the prevention of neurological conditions, to help people who suffer with them live better, longer.