Adam's London Marathon 2018
Adam Crichton is raising money for Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity
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I will be running the Virgin Money London Marathon on the 22nd April 2018 for a charity called Sparks.
Sparks raises money to fund pioneering child health research across the UK, helping to find new treatments and cures for children and families who desperately need them.
Sparks supports clinicians and scientists who have the skills, innovation and passion to improve children's lives forever. Since 1991, they have funded more than 300 ground-breaking child health research projects in over 90 hospitals, universities and research institutions across the UK and overseas.
Every child matters, that is why they are more ambitious than
ever to see an overall improvement in survival rates and quality of life for children with rare and complex conditions. For many seriously ill children, research is their only hope.
I am fortunate enough to have two healthy children, who I absolutely adore, but know that our whole world could change very quickly should one of them become seriously ill. My motivation for running for Sparks is to improve the likely outcome for many families who sufferer the pains of paediatric illness. Research is an important part of the medical infrastructure but is often underfunded due to constraints on public purse strings.
This will be my first marathon run. I have run a few half
marathons and have begun my training and fundraising to ensure I am in good shape to complete the event and raise the vital funds for Sparks.
I have a fundraising target of £2,000 and would love to substantially better this. Any donation is greatly appreciated and will help towards improving the lives of many poorly children and their families.
If you would like to get any more information on Sparks and the work they do, including case studies their website is www.sparks.org.uk
My Just Giving page is: https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/adamcrichton
If you want to follow my training and progress, the majority
of my activity is recorded through Strava and can be viewed by following me: https://www.strava.com/athletes/549820
Thank you kindly for your donations.
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