About Me

I work for a bank during the week and enjoy a lot of outdoor activities at the weekends, kayaking, hill walking, climbing and mountain biking. A couple of years ago my father was sadly diagnosed with an advanced, agressive, prostate cancer. From that point on we have been on an amazing emotional journey as a family, with times of heartbraking lows equalled by surprising highs. Along the way we’ve been helped by individuals and organisations too numerous to mention, but without whose support it would have been a far harder time.

Each year I try and undertake a fundraising activity to give something back to the charities and organisations out there that have helped us so muuch. In the past this has included the Royal Marsden Hospital and the Prostate Cancer Charity, but over the last couple of years I have focused my efforts on one very special organisation, the Severn Hospice.

Like many people I thought a hospice was a place where people went to die, instead I’ve been surprised to find it’s actually a place where people go to live. Since they started to work with Mum and Dad the whole breadth of services that they offer became apparent, from physiotherapy and complimentary therapies, through nursing and nightsitting, to even providing facilities for the less mobile to have a bath. It’s amazing the impact that something so simple, that most of us take for granted, can have.

What’s amazed me more though as I found out about the organisation is how they are funded by volunteer donations rather than the goverment. To help them continue their work I’m trying to raise at least £2,500 by participating in the Mega Avalanche this year.

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