Hey there! First of all, thanks for taking the time to come and check out my fundraising page! secondly, apologies for the rather long story your about to embark on but I feel the best way for me to promote what I'm doing is to lay it all out for you to see.. :)

Back in January 2018 I was diagnosed with a brain tumour. Around 45/50% of the tumour was removed back in March, leaving a 2cm tumour behind. I’m now recovering. The first few weeks after surgery were incredibly hard as I had lost all strength on the left side of my body. Over the next few months I began to notice that my mental heath had taken a battering. Although I had recovered almost completely, the side effects of brain surgery were starting to take effect. Thanks to the effects, I lost a lot of friends.. Luckily for me I had things to keep me focused.. In January this year, just a few days before I was due to fly out to volunteer in Africa, I found out that I had a serious infection that I'd picked up after the brain surgery - resulting in me having to be sent back to surgery to have a large chunk of skull removed.

I’ve completed a corse of radiotherapy and am now on chemotherapy for the next 12 months.  This isn’t going to slow me down though. I’ve recently completed the Yorkshire Three Peaks, but now it’s time for my next big challenge. Something that’s going to show this tumour of mine who’s boss! On June 13/14th I’ll be completing my first ever Tougher Mudder (A TM race) then that day I’ll be completing my first Europe’s Toughest Mudder (A 12 hour Tough Mudder corse - lasting until 8am the next day) then after a shorty break, I’ll be completing one more Tough Mudder.. 3 major events in less than 24 hours, all for an amazing charity. A charity that I’m lucky enough to have been supported by. 

After coming to the back end of round two of my chemotherapy I was forced to leave my job working in a homeless hostel due to the effects of my brain injury and the chemotherapy. I refuse to let that stop me from giving back to the charity that has helped change my life. 

Back in 2008, after a long run with depression, anxiety and two failed suicide attempts, I had decided to attempt to take my own life.. Though shier luck I failed but this is still an event that haunts me even now.. Its for this reason, back in 2014 I decided to create a "bucket list" as a means to keep me busy and my mind occupied.. The first item on the list happened to be my first trip in a plane... For a skydive! That ended up being for charity. Soon after I found that I loved taking on challenge's to raise money and awareness for different charity's that had either helped me or had made some form of impact on me..


so far I have raised money for various charity's by completing the Hull 10k twice, hosting several coffee mornings, pie in the face raffles and being gunged (more than once!) 

Thanks for taking the time to read this! :-)