Alzheimer’s Society is transforming the landscape of dementia forever. Until the day we find a cure, we will create a society where those affected by dementia are supported and accepted, able to live in their community without fear or prejudice.

In 2024 I will be turning the big 40. I wanted to achieve something that was not only memorable but to feel like it had a meaning or purpose. I have decided to take on my biggest challenge ever and sign up for the Cotswold Way Ultra Challenge. It involves walking 53KM (32.93 miles) from Cirencester to Wotton Under Edge it will take place in 2025.

While taking on this challenge I wanted to raise money for a charity that hopefully one day will be able to find a cure for this terrible disease.

There are currently around 900,000 people with Dementia in the UK with this to be projected to over 1million people by 2025.

I'm doing this walk in honour of my Nan who had suffered with Dementia for over 10 years. She was in a  dementia care home and couldn't have asked for better people that looked after her.  It's very hard to describe to someone else what its like to watch someone you love have this disease. Over the past 10 years we had to watch my Nan on a constant decline to the point she doesn't recognise me or other family members including her son my father. That is probably the hardest most painful thing to watch. We have to help her drink and eat sometimes as she has forgotten how to do this, the most simple things that we would take for granted is no longer within my nans mind it has completely gone. 

Unfortunately on the 24th November 2023 my beautiful amazing Nan lost her fight and we said our goodbyes. She will forever be our queen. 

I would be so grateful if you can support me in this challenge and any donations however small would be truly grateful. 

Fingers crossed one day a cure will be found so it prevents more people going through this disease.