In October last year, 180 men and women from Unilever jumped on static bikes and cycled over 2,000 miles in the inaugural Miles 4 Mel event. We raised nearly £6,000 for Get A Head and remembered our friend and colleague Mel Jaggard, who sadly passed away from cancer at the tender age of 34.

This year we’re taking Miles 4 Mel on the road! A long, winding and hilly road at that! 50 of us will be cycling from Unilever House in Leatherhead to Mel’s home town of Gilwern in South Wales during two days in May. It will be a tough challenge but hopefully full of fun and laughter too, just as Mel would have wanted!

We hope to raise £50,000 to fund a new project at the Molecular Research Centre of The Royal Marsden. The Centre will seek out new treatments for Mel's form of cancer by de-coding its genetic pathways. The project will require funding for the next four years and your generosity is greatly appreciated.