On Sunday 30 September 2018 my wife (Nancy) has organised a 15-mile walk around Richmond Park to raise money for kidney research. The risk arb team have kindly agreed to join so we've created this page for sponsorship..

We’d love you to join the walk or make a donation.

Anyway, here’s why we’re doing it: as many of you know I had a pretty rubbish year in 2017. My wife who has suffered from a rare kidney disease since childhood but had been in remission for 20 years suffered a major relapse. She underwent 9 months of weekly chemo during which she suffered a couple of major setbacks but is thankfully now back in remission. It’s a hard disease to treat because the immune system attacks the kidneys, you can get a
new kidney but the cycle just repeats itself. Jonah Lomu suffered from the same condition and despite multiple transplants sadly succumbed.

We were very lucky in that the doctors who treated Nancy were willing to try a very unorthodox drug (one her specialist at Great Ormond Street had used 20 years earlier but is currently not recognised as a suitable treatment). Amazingly the chemo drug is derived from a simple flower (Periwinkle) that
grows in Madagascar (amazing how people discover this stuff!).