Welcome to my fundraising page! From 13th May to 11th June, I will be swimming a total of 10 miles as part of Alzheimer’s UK’s Swim for Dementia challenge.

This is a cause very close to my heart and as soon as I heard about the challenge, I just knew that I had to do it. I love to swim and usually go around 2-4 times per week, but this challenge will require me to up the ante and swim 5-6 times per week.

The pool at my gym, Y Club Manchester, is 18m in length. This means that I will have to swim 894 lengths of the pool in 30 days to complete the challenge!

I will be using Strava to track my swims and my progress, so feel free to follow along (or be my friend, I don’t really know how Strava works).

My goal:

£15 turns four ordinary citizens into superhero Dementia Friends.

£95 provides a telephone-based Dementia Adviser for a full day.

£300 means over 1,700 people can access Talking Point, Alzheimer’s UK’s online forum. Here people can learn from each other's experiences, share their frustrations and their knowledge of local services.

Any donation will be greatly appreciated, even if you can only spare a couple of quid, it will go a long way to help support those affected by this cruel disease.