Two cities, two marathons, two weeks.

Bowel disease destroys lives. Every 15 minutes someone is diagnosed with bowel cancer in this country. Every 30 minutes someone dies. Yet tragically, bowel cancer is one of the easiest cancers to treat if it is detected early and one of the most difficult if it is detected late.

I lost my grandfather to bowel cancer as a young child, and several family members are battling the disease at the moment. So I'm running the Paris and London Marathons in April to raise money for St Mark's Hospital Foundation, the specialist bowel hospital.

Set up to fund what the NHS can’t, foundation raises money to ensure vital research, education and training goes ahead each year.

Your donation can make a big difference:

£12.50
buys 25 laboratory pipettes so our researchers can make new discoveries in the fight against bowel disease

£25
helps to train a specialist gastrointestinal nurse and share best practice for treatment of bowel diseases nationwide

£50
helps towards the early detection of bowel cancer

£100
donation will assist our research into malignant polyps forming in Polyposis patients.

£500
will assist our research into tissue engineering which will lead one day to bowel transplantation

£800
funds an MSC place within our Burdett Institute for Gastrointestinal Nursing.

£1000
will sponsor one of our educational courses, attended by Doctors, Consultants and nurses

Please give generously, and don't forget to gift aid!