Thank you for visiting my just giving page. I will be running the 2025 London Marathon on Sunday 27th April in memory of my hero, my brother Chris who very sadly took his own life and passed away on Friday 27th September 2024 at the age of 43.

Chris was an incredible person who impacted so many lives with his smile, kind heart and infectious personality. He was an award winning architect and partner at Bptw who led development projects throughout southeast England and was widely known and respected in his field, to quote one of his contacts, “He was in the top 1% of his profession, everyone wanted a Chris Bath leading their team”.

Chris was passionate about using the power of design to elevate spaces, strengthen communities and enrich the lives of those who live in them. His work on Rochester Riverside, a highly successful regeneration project, earned Bptw its first Housing Design Award in 2020.

As you can imagine, the loss has left our family completely heartbroken and I have decided to take on this challenge by fundraising to raise awareness and support three incredible charities:

The Skye High Foundation, who support bereaved parents after the loss of a twin, triplet or multiple, a charity very close to my heart after very sadly losing my twin son Hunter after 4 days of life in July 2021. The foundation have set up many initiatives and have created a purple butterfly cot which is placed in an incubator or cot in memory of their sibling. The cot card allows families the opportunity to make others around them aware of the journey they are going through in NICU and be sensitive and understanding to their circumstances at such a difficult time .They also send beautiful memory boxes for families to all Neonatal hospitals throughout the UK. Chris was particularly proud when I became a trustee for Skye High in July 2022.

Shelter, a charity campaigning for housing justice who are at the frontline of the housing crisis, solving people’s housing problems every day. This supports Chris’ work with the need to build more homes in the UK, particularly social housing. There are now over 150,000 children living in temporary accommodation. Due to the great work and support from shelter, between April 23-March 24, 12,900 households saw a positive change in their housing situation.

Mind, a mental health charity making sure that no one has to face a mental health problem alone. I’m passionate about raising awareness of mental health, in particular men’s mental health. We need to understand that’s it’s okay to be vulnerable, talk and cry, and see this as a superpower instead of bottling it all up inside. As a society, we still don’t know enough to understand how our minds work, and it is therefore very important to value and support each other’s mental health.

It is an honour to be able to run the London marathon with my sister-in-law and Chris’s wife Allyson who has shown remarkable strength and courage at such a difficult time, being a rock for her boys Hooper and Foley.

Any donations you can spare will be very gratefully received and will go towards helping these amazing charities continue the brilliant work they do.

Thank you,

Jonathan, Allyson and family.

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