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As many of you know, my younger Brother Dom lost his long and hard-fought battle with bowel cancer in October last year. Dom was a keen Cyclist and had ridden from London to Paris in Oct 2012, having just finished a tough round of Chemo. Dom and I discussed ideas for future cycling adventures, and one idea he had was to cycle from London to Mt Snowdon, and then to climb Snowdon. My reply was something along the lines of - "That is a long way to ride a bike, just to end up in Wales" before our conversation turned to more glamorous European destinations.

However, Dom shared some wishes with us before he died, one of which was for us to do his Snowdon trip... after a chat with various other people at Dom's memorial event Team SnowDom was born - the rest is history waiting to be written....

We are raising money for the Colorectal Unit at University College Hospital (UCH) headed up by Dominic’s surgeon Richard Cohen. 

Dominic and Nilly met him at the very beginning of his illness. Over the years he was a great support to them both, and to our family, offering clarity and compassion through some of our toughest days.

The unit is involved in research, training and innovation in all aspects of colorectal disease. There are a group of surgeons and physicians based at UCLH all of whom have on-going research projects into aspects of the specialty. They are also heavily involved in teaching and training students and colleagues nationally and internationally. The unit funds the costs of visiting surgeons coming to UCLH to teach new techniques, and to support visits from surgeons working in poorer parts of the world.

We are aiming to raise £50k to kick start an initial research project, which, if successful can then be taken to larger grant making charities to progress the project further.

Research, and particularly innovative research, is expensive and successful projects can take years, but the results, which are better outcomes and longer survival rates for patients with colorectal disease are invaluable.

This will be a great legacy for Dom, and I know he'd be very proud of our achievements.