Thanks for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page.

2016 is my 60th year. In memory of my sorely missed son, Martin, who sadly passed away in 2011, and in order to raise much needed funds for Mental Health Research (UK) (www.mentalhealthresearchuk.org.uk),  I have decided to take on as many challenges in 2016 as possible. To start with I completed a scary 15,000ft tandem sky dive on 14th February (my 60th birthday); I am running the Manchester 10k on  22nd May; I am doing the Great North Swim (1 ml) on Windermere on 11th June and I have entered the Great North Run on Tyneside on 11th September. That leaves time for further challenges yet to be confirmed! I shall update this page as further challenges are added. 

Martin and I spent many happy times taking on various challenges, and memories of those times will be with me while I suffer! 

Mental illness accounts for one third of all illness, but research into mental illness attracts less than ten per cent of all health related research funds. Please give your support to the cause of advancing the knowledge and understanding of mental health and reducing the pain and suffering that result from mental illnesses.

I have uploaded a video to this page but it seems that JustGiving have been updating their software with the result that on some devices the video icon will not be present. If the icon is not showing on the page or there are problems opening the file (apparently such videos will not currently work on mobile devices) the video can alternatively be viewed in Youtube at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8Tu4frCXtA

Andrew

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