🏃🏼‍♀️NICK AND I ARE RUNNING THE MANCHESTER MARATHON 2025 🏃🏼‍♀️

I can’t quite believe we are saying this considering we have only just ran our first 10k 😂 if you know me or Nick you’ll know we are sooo not runners so it is quite funny to say that we are running an actual marathon!

However, we will be running and raising money for cancer research. My amazing mum was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma and nicks amazing dad was diagnosed with prostate cancer, so we will be running for them. Both of these amazing people in our life are in remission and that’s all thanks to everything cancer research does to find cures and medicines that can kick cancers ass!

Our goal is to raise £1000 for cancer research.

£25 could either buy 500 plastic test tubes, 5 boxes of gloves, 5 beakers, or a Bunsen burner, which are the understated tools of many experiments.

£50 can pay for chemicals called restriction enzymes, which cut long strands of DNA, allowing scientists to find out more about the genes that cause cancer.

Early diagnosis is essential to getting the right treatment to people with cancer. £100 could pay for a cancer biopsy, where a tiny amount of a lump is removed and sent to be studied in a lab.

£150 could fund a team of researchers in Manchester for half a day. They're trying to diagnose and monitor lung cancer in a less invasive way.

£200 can buy DNA nucleotides, something scientists use to make copies of genes, giving us clues about how things go wrong in cancer.

£300 could buy a device used to spin blood samples so different types of cells separate. Our scientists can then study the different types of cancerous cells to find out more about them.

£500 could run our online moderated forum, Cancer Chat, for a day. It's a safe space open to everyone to discuss any aspect of the disease with others in the cancer community.

To help test potentially life-saving treatments and find the most promising new cancer drugs, £1,000 could buy imaging software that our scientists use to film cells in real time.

Any donations will be greatly received!!! Thank you so so so much xxx