I am running the London Marathon 2025 for the Children’s Cancer and Leukaemia Group (CCLG) to support kids and young adults affected by cancer. And I will be running for my amazing son, Finley.

On 11th August 2021 Finley was diagnosed with B-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia (ALL), aged 2.5 years old. Words cannot describe that moment, when our world stopped spinning and our lives changed forever. But thankfully, through the amazing care and support of our teams at The Royal Marsden and Royal Surrey hospitals and the ground breaking research funded by CCLG, Finley is in remission and (all being well) will ring the bell on 21st October this year.

Treatment has been a journey, with countless procedures, chemotherapy, LPs, infections, hospital stays, not to mention the dreaded monthly ‘steroid week’. That said, we feel so lucky and blessed that he is here and enjoying a relatively normal and active life.

But treatments are harsh, long term effects common and sadly some childhood cancer types still have very low survival rates. So, I am dusting off my running trainers to raise as much money as possible for #TeamCCLG, helping to fund research that enables quicker diagnosis and kinder more effective treatments for children with cancer.

This will undoubtedly be a huge challenge for me. But if I can muster up even a fraction of the strength, courage, resilience and humour that my little boy has shown over the past 3.5 years, I know I’ll be just fine 😊.

Thank you for reading my story, I’ll be keeping my page updated with the highs (and lows!) as my training progresses. Any contribution you can make would be so gratefully received.