This October marks 10 years since my wonderful dad died and also 10 years of applying unsuccessfully for a London Marathon place. 

Amazingly, this year I received the ‘You are in!’ email and immediately knew I wanted to run for The Daisy Appeal - ‘a charity which helps to improve survival chances of thousands of people each year by giving faster, more accurate diagnosis of the three of the regions biggest killers - cancer, heart disease and dementia. With cures still a long way off, early diagnosis still offers the best chance of survival.’

The Daisy Appeal, based at the Hull and East Yorkshire Medical Research Centre at Castle Hill Hospital, is a charity my dad supported and it means a lot to me too. 

I will be running the London Marathon on 2nd of October in memory of my dad - my inspiration always x

Thank you for taking the time to visit my Just giving page.

Help make cancer, heart disease and dementia a thing of the past. Since it was established in 2000, the Daisy Appeal has raised £12.5m to fund cutting-edge research and state-of-the-art equipment and facilities.We built an £8m research centre, which opened in 2008, and in 2014 we opened the £4.5m Jack Brignall PET-CT Scanning Centre. Both are on the Castle Hill Hospital site. We now want to build a £7.2m radiochemistry and cyclotron unit so we can produce our own radioactive tracers.