Just as I’m about to leave my roaring twenties I’ve been lucky enough to gain a place in this year’s Virgin Money London Marathon.

As many of you know I’ve been partial to a jog for the best part of 5 years but I never in a million years thought I had it in me to do something anything as crazy as this.

Now that the reality has sunk in, I’ve started the physically and mentally demanding training plan (20 miles so far) and I need your help...

I’m only going to this race once so I want to make it worth my while and raise as much money as I can for two top charities:

1) Mind, who do incredible work raising awareness for mental health.

2) Dementia Revolution & Barbara's Revolutionaries who are raising much-needed awareness of dementia as well as funds to power ground-breaking research at the UK Dementia Research Institute.

If you’d like to donate please note that all donations will be split and sent to either charity.

Thank you X