The COVID-19 pandemic has had a huge effect on charities and their ability to raise vital funds. Cure Leukaemia's life-saving work needs our help more than ever after many of their biggest fundraising events have had to be cancelled or postponed.

September is Blood Cancer Awareness Month, and I should/would have been getting excited about finally being able to take part in the annual Dragonboat Race. Instead, I am taking inspiration from the 2.6 challenge earlier in the year, but this time attempting to do the full marathon distance during BCAM. It may not sound like a difficult challenge, but this will be very hard for me as I am just starting to get a bit more active after years of treatment for AML. 

My life was saved by donations from people like you, so thank you and please help - there are many more patients who need the same! 

More about this amazing charity:

Cure Leukaemia helps blood cancer patients to access pioneering drug and transplant treatments by funding a network of specialist research nurses across the UK. Without these nurses, to ensure patients are monitored and cared for, clinical trials of these new treatments would not run and patients, that have exhausted standard treatment options, would miss out on potentially lifesaving therapies. Every penny raised for Cure Leukaemia helps save lives and also hastens global progress towards the eradication of all forms of blood cancer.