Along with colleagues in UHI, I am raising money for Befrienders Highland - a small voluntary organisation working to improve the lives of people who are lonely and isolated and have experience of mental ill health, memory difficulties or dementia, and carers. Their befriending services have helped improve the confidence, wellbeing and social belonging of hundreds of people in our communities.

I'll be cycling Ride the North sportive at the end of August, making my way from Castle Fraser to Elgin, and back to Castle Fraser, through the undulating(!) countryside of North East Scotland. It's a tough but achievable 170mile challenge over two days.

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