Equilore and The Hummingbird Centre need your support. I am raising funds to be able to continue to provide much needed mental health support through equine facilitated interventions for families affected by cancer.

Working with horses helps people regulate their arousal levels through a non verbal intervention, click through the pictures for a visual representation of our work.

Mechelle Harris, Founder of the Hummingbird Centre, says: 'Equine Therapy has helped our guests in many unexpected ways, especially those who have struggled to engage with our 'normal' counselling services. Working with the horses brings a unique level of calm and trust to those who's lives are up side down throughout their cancer journey.'

We need this service to continue and in order to do so I have set myself a challenge, a real challenge. As a Dutchie, growing up 20 meters below sea level and learning hill starts on speed bumps, I have little concept of mountains, let alone run across them. Although, a runner, my furthest race to date has been 10 miles.

On the 10th of June, I am running the BB Ultra; a 55km trail race across 21 peaks, with over 2500ft of elevation. I will have 12 hours to complete this race, which crosses over 15 mountains.

This run will take me full circle to the start of Equilore, as it was breaking my ankle on a trail run in 2016 that had me abandoning my career in academia to start up my therapeutic work with horses. To be trail running across rocky and uneven terrain will add another layer to the challenge, but it will be awesome to raise funds to support our services for the Hummingbird Centre.

Please help me raise our target of £500!!