In 2007 I ran the London Marathon, I was ten year younger, one stone lighter, ten times fitter, and had much more vision than I have today. I wasn't a guide dog user, I wasn't a cane user, I wasn't a mum and #ToyLikeMe wasn't in existence. Times have changed!

Fast forward to 2015 when I had a light bulb moment whilst tidying my kids' toys. I realized that not a single toy had a disability. I googled to see if there was such a thing as toys with disabilities and found that the global toy industry was almost entirely void of any representations of disability yet there are 150 million disabled kids worldwide. What was this teaching them? What was this teaching their peers? The #ToyLikeMe toy box revolution was born!

#ToyLikeMe has since successfully lobbied Lego, Playmobil and Lottie dolls to include disabled children in their products. We have launched toylikeme.org to celebrate all things disabled and toy-ish and we have registered as an official arts and play based not-for-profit!

Now I'm going to run, stagger, crawl the Parallel London 10k on the 3rd of September. I am looking to raise £250 to help continue the work of #ToyLikeMe. Every year we have to find £2000 to pay the for web hosting and maintenance of toylikeme.org and answer hundreds of emails from parents and carers looking for hard to find products.

Whilst I've done a marathon before, this 10k is going to be a different challenge as I will be running with much less vision and with the aid of a white cane. I'm hoping people will get out of my way!

I'm massively grateful for all donations, big or teeny tiny small.

R x