I'm taking on the Aspire Channel Swim 2024, swimming the distance of the English Channel – 22 miles, over 12 weeks to raise money for Aspire. Every four hours someone is paralysed by Spinal Cord Injury and Aspire provides the essential equipment, advice and housing that spinal cord injured people need to live their lives independently. This is a big challenge, but the more I raise, the more of a difference I'll make, so please sponsor me and be generous!

On a personal note, having had surgery at the age of 29 to remove a neurofibroma off my spinal cord, I was then and remain now exceptionally fortunate to not have not suffered ongoing paralysis.