My father died in 1987 at the age of 60 after a short battle with Pancreatic Cancer.

For anyone, a diagnosis of cancer is a difficult and life changing moment. For people diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, it is especially devastating.

1 in 4 people will lose their lives within a month of a pancreatic cancer diagnosis, and 1 in 2 won’t survive beyond three months. 

Pancreatic cancer is the toughest cancer to diagnose, treat and survive. Shockingly, the only curative treatment available today is surgery, which only 8% of those diagnosed will have to. This means that thousands of people are left powerless to fight pancreatic cancer, without treatment and hope for their future. And nothing has really changed in the 33 years my father died from pancreatic cancer! I, along with all the 3 Peaks Challenge team and everyone at Pancreatic Cancer UK, are committed this can't continue to be the outlook for people diagnosed with the horrendous disease!

Because pancreatic cancer is so tough, we’ve decided to take on a very tough physical (and mental!) challenge. We’re a team of 8 who’ve come together to raise funds to fight the deadliest common cancer; funding ground-breaking research to develop life-saving treatments for people with pancreatic cancer. 

I and a team of fellow PCUK supporters had planned to complete the UK Three Peaks Challenge on Saturday 26th September 2020 (having had to defer from May 2020 due to Covid-19), with a goal to raise £350,000 for Pancreatic Cancer UK. However, with potential localised lockdown restrictions threatening the possibility of our UK Three Peaks Challenge yet again, we have decided to take on a logistically simpler, yet similarly demanding challenge on this date. We have chosen to take on the Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge - 24 miles of walking and 6100+ft of climbing over 3 peaks - all in 12 hours. So rest-assured we will still be testing our limits!

With what has transpired this year, and with how threatened cancer research funding is now, our fundraising is now more important than ever to Pancreatic Cancer UK and we're more committed than ever to raise £350,000 to fund vital ground-breaking research.

My personal goal is to raise £140,000 towards the team goal.

Thanks to some incredibly generous support of close friends we have created a £50,000 matching fund for all donations to PCUK on my personal page. So every £1 you donate will release a further £1: doubling the value of your donations and making an even bigger difference to the impact we will make together. Huge thank you to the match-funding crew, including: Andrew Brode, Jim Grover, Nick Rose, Julian & Barbara Steadman, John Storey and Gareth Williams!

Thanks too to Rich Khatib, CO-founder of Huma Therapeutics for his generous donation of £10,000 (doubled up by the Match funding team above!).

Delivering on our team goal of £350,000 will take PCUK one-step closer to finding desperately needed treatments for pancreatic cancer, by funding Pancreatic Cancer UK’s Grand Challenge, to harness the exciting potential of immunotherapy to extend the lives of people facing pancreatic cancer.