Thank you for taking the time to visit my just giving page, here you will find the touching story of why I am running the Brighton Full Marathon.

Sam collapsed with a brain
tumour on the 19th march 2009 he was given an hour to live , if he didn't receive
any intervention. Many operations and lots of hard work later he left hospital
and relearnt to walk, talk, read, write...and just about everything else!! He
was astonishing remaining optimistic and determined with a fabulous sense of
humour and a smile that won hearts!

Sam was realistic and saw that
others just didn't get the impact that a brain tumour had on your life, so, he
thought he would do something about that and he did. He worked hard on
enlightening and raising awareness in as many people as possible, using his
charm and natural ability to engage with people. Whether at school or in the European
Parliament he just chatted to people, his ready enthusiasm carrying things along and collecting people as he went.

Sam could not meet his last
challenge and left us peacefully on 3rd September 2013, he had long ago given us his expectation that if he was no longer here we should continue
raising awareness about brain tumours, because if we didn't what was the point in all he was doing!! So very much Sam and so to the point.

So, here we are doing our best
to continue to raise awareness and doing as he said and being out there and telling the story.