I'm a part of the team who will be cycling from Manchester to London in June, a distance of more than 200 miles to raise money for the UK's first Proton Beam Therapy Centres.

As a Student Nurse, I feel privileged to have learned from fantastic nurses, doctors, pharmacists, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, radiographers, ward clerks, porters, catering staff, domestic staff and last but not least, patients! I have learned a great deal about how to care for people living with cancer and I want to repay this by cycling loads and raising some money. Why not?

See how much our whole team is raising: http://tinyurl.com/z5daql6

My mum is a survivor of breast cancer and my grandfather also suffers from cancer and its effects. Friends of mine have also fought cancer. I want them, and everyone, to get the best possible treatment and Proton Therapy could be an important part of that.

On the 17th June 2016, a group of Christie Hospital Manchester and University College London Hospital cyclists will depart from the site of the Christie Proton Beam Therapy Centre in South Manchester and ride to UCLH centre in Central London. That's over two hundred miles in two days.

The NHS National Proton Beam Therapy Programme will make an advanced form of radiotherapy available to patients in the UK for the first time and the centres in Manchester and London have been chosen to deliver the service.

I'll be part of the group and would be very grateful if you could sponsor me by making a donation to help make the lives of patients visiting the Christie Proton Beam Centre more tolerable.

I have previously done a fair bit of cycle touring in France, Spain and the UK, but this time I will once again be braving the pot-hole ridden surface that passes for a road in this country. Hooray!

Thank you.

Love Protons, Hate Cancer.