<p>Macmillan&rsquo;s work attacks cancer from all angles. They offer vital, practical resources to patients and their families. From offering a helping hand to navigate the benefits system, funding care homes and nursing staff in specialist centres, they also seek to <a href="http://www.macmillan.org.uk/GetInvolved/Campaigns/247communitynursing/247nursing.aspx?utm_source=Macmillan&amp;utm_medium=Homepage&amp;utm_campaign=247CommunityNursing" target="_blank">improve end-of-life care</a>. They offer counselling and a shoulder for patients, families and communities alike. They help organise respite care for carers, lifts to and from hospital appointments, financial grants for heating bills or travel costs. They are a force for change, be it campaigning for an end to <a href="http://www.macmillan.org.uk/GetInvolved/Campaigns/Freezeoutfuelpoverty/Fuel_poverty_campaign.aspx" target="_blank">fuel poverty</a> for cancer patients, or <a href="http://www.macmillan.org.uk/GetInvolved/Campaigns/247communitynursing/247nursing.aspx?utm_source=Macmillan&amp;utm_medium=Homepage&amp;utm_campaign=247CommunityNursing" target="_blank">giving hospital parking charges the boot.</a></p> <p>So, while cycling from London to Paris is going to be a challenge, it's nothing compared with the challenge of fighting cancer.</p> <p>Please help me to help Macmillan.&nbsp; Thank you for your donation, the thought of all of your money riding on me will spur me on when the going gets tough.</p>