My brother, Graham, aged 20 passed away from a rare strand of meningitis in 2019. Since then, life has not been the same; for myself, my family and his friends and something that will never make any sense. Graham didn’t have any usual meningitis symptoms, he was fit, healthy and young. The illness took him within hours.

When you’re at university you think you’ve got your whole life ahead of you, but meningitis can strike very quickly. I encourage you all to look up the usual symptoms of meningitis. Meningitis can affect everyone. My ongoing life goal is to both raise money and awareness for the Meningitis Research Foundation.

So far we’ve raised over £36,000 in memory of Graham and I will continue to fundraise to defeat meningitis by running the 2024 London Marathon. I think Graham would be really proud of us