A few weeks ago my beautiful mum lost her life to the blood cancer, non-hodgkins lymphoma. In her honour, me and my wonderful sisters and friends have decided to run the Great Manchester Run (10k) to raise money for ward F11 at The Royal Oldham Hospital.

Ward F11 is the Haemotology department where my mum spent many months fighting and battling the horrible disease. When she was first admitted we were told she might not make it, but with the sheer determination of the doctors and the extraordinary care of the nurses she was able to have an amazing time at home over Christmas and we had a lot more months together with her than we thought. They are all angels and we will forever cherish the unconditional love and support they gave to my mum and to us all.

When mum was at her worst, she was unable to leave her bed and the main thing that gave her movement and prevented further pain was her 'lazyboy' style recliner chair. Unfortunately, the hospital only has 1 of these. We would like to fundraise to enable all patients to have the joy and comfort of these chairs.

Each chair costs £800+VAT, and with your help and donations we hope we can get as many of these as possible.

Please donate whatever you can, no amount is too small, in honour of my mum and for a very great cause.

Thank you very much.

Gemma