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In July 2025, my colleagues and I have challenged ourselves to take on the Peak District Half Marathon Mighty Hike to help raise money for people living with cancer.

You won’t need telling that more and more people are getting a cancer diagnosis and sadly you’ll probably already know someone living with the disease now.

We love our jobs in Bolton Hospital’s discharge team but it usually means that we meet lots of patients who are coming to the end of this illness. We will always do what we can to support them and their families to receive end of life care in their preferred place and try to relieve the financial stress for them. As nurses and social workers, we can’t help but feel upset by the pain that every family we meet goes through and we want to help in every and any way that we can.

That being said, cancer is not all doom and gloom as so many more people are beating it now and we want to try and help those people too by taking on this Mighty Hike.

Macmillan is 98% funded by donations and the money they raise is vital to support so many different people in all the different stages of their cancer (and their nearest and dearest).

We want to make sure that that pot of money stays full for you, your families and your friends! To make sure that there is someone at the end of the phone to give you advice whenever you need it, to make sure there is someone at your hospital, hospice, library or health centre to give you face to face support, grants to cover an energy bill, home adaptations or pay for transport to hospital appointments when money is short. To walk your dog when you can’t, come with a cancer sufferer who might have to face appointments alone or do some shopping when the days are rough.

The money for Macmillan does so much more than we ever thought too, it even goes towards making sure employers are set up to support workers who get a cancer diagnosis, it supports research into cancer care to ensure services are available where they are needed most, it helps to run campaigns, build partnerships and influence decision makers at national and local level, and it provides us healthcare professionals with the most up to date resources, tools and information so that we can support people living with cancer.

I'd be so grateful if you could help me reach my £250 pledge, which can pay for Macmillan Nurse for one day. This could provide people living with cancer and their families essential medical, practical and emotional support!

Thank you from the bottom of my heart if you have read all of this and want to support all of us at Bolton Hospital Discharge Team♥️