🚨Update Alert 🚨 

Our original fundraising plan was to run the Brighton Marathon following shortly after by the London Marathon 2020 but the COVID pandemic put a spanner in the works to that plan. After completing the Brighton Marathon 2022 this April we were given the unexpected opportunity to run London Marathon in April 2023. However there was only one space available, so a rock/ paper & scissors later (Geoff’s scissors beat my paper) he got the lucky ticket.

I haven’t got off the hook as I will be doing all the training with Geoff along the way 🤨😁.

So the fundraising continues and we would like to thank everyone who has donated this great cause so far and to those that haven’t it’s not too late.

Below is a recap of our story so far:

Well let’s try this all again shall we……..! Just shy of a month before we were due to run the Brighton Marathon the COVID pandemic struck and the entire country went into lockdown and Charity events across the UK stopped over night.

Fast forward 2 years and hopefully the worst of the Pandemic now behind us we are going for it once again and training is well underway. Charities have been hit very hard by the pandemic, many are just about hanging on from the kind and generous donations people make up and down the land.

Below is the story behind our charity fundraising:

18 years ago I lost my brother, Chris, to a very rare form of Cancer called Osteosarcoma, he bravely battled the disease for 5 years but when his time was nearing the end he was taken into St Luke’s Hospice in Basildon. It was here he see out his final days under the amazing care of the staff at the Hospice. 

He was only 25 years old and as you can imagine he had just about everything life could throw at him but he never once moaned about his illness, always finding a positive from a negative situation. I will never forget him telling me how grateful he was to be looked after so well by the Hospice and saying “Everybody who needs it should be able to get this level of care”. 

Like me he was amazed how little financial support St Luke’s Hospice gets from the Government considering the level of care it’s patients young and old receive. It relies almost entirely on public generosity and people like me and Geoff fundraising to keep it going.

After Chris passed I was left feeling confused/ lost/ angry and could not process what had happened. St Luke’s kept in contact with me and provided me with counselling for a few months after he passed which only now I fully appreciate how important and helpful that was. St Luke’s Hospice continues to help families even after losing their loved ones with these crucial services.

Nobody knows what’s around the corner but if the unthinkable happens St Luke’s Hospice is there to ensure patients and their families are as comfortable as they could possibly be but without people’s continued generosity and fundraising the Hospice will struggle to operate as it does. So please dig deep and donate whatever you can and remember to give us both a toot when you see us out on our training runs.

We both really appreciate everybodies support XxX

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