Past challenges:

Jonathan and Lauren's Mount Snowdon Challenge raised £1,620

On 13th March I will be running the Colchester Half Marathon

to help raise awareness and vital funds for the charity Funding Neuro.

Why is this you ask? On 3rd of May 2014 our close friends the Brooks family received the worst ever possible news, their beautiful and much loved 6 year old daughter Daisy was diagnosed with a devastating and inoperable form of brain tumour called DIPG (Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma). DIPG primarily affects children with most succumbing to the disease within 18 months of diagnosis. Daisy went from being a normal child at school one day with no sign of illness to hospital the next and was having radiotherapy by the following week.

Daisy’s family and friends scoured the internet looking for some treatment that could help her. Like many parents in this desperate situation, they would have done anything, gone anywhere to help their beloved child but they found hope right here in the UK in the brilliant Professor Steven Gill. Daisy was offered experimental brain surgery at Bristol Children's Hospital which involved a software guided robot installing a series of catheters attached to a titanium device to deliver chemotherapy direct to the tumour. Daisy underwent three rounds of treatment and although the initial results looked promising, the tumour proved too aggressive and sadly Daisy died on November 17th, hours after celebrating her 7th birthday.

Daisy’s heartbroken parents are now trying to raise more funds to be used by Professor Gill to continue the research and study that gave Daisy and her family a glimmer of hope. Through treating Daisy the team proved that it is possible to get the drug in safely, now they need to find the perfect drug. Daisy’s legacy will continue to benefit children and families in the future given what has up until now been an unequivocal death sentence and so far they have raised over £200,000 for Funding Neuro in Daisy's memory.

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