## 🍩 THE KRISPY KREME LONDON 50 — 7 NOVEMBER

**50 kilometres. 20 Krispy Kreme stores. One extraordinary cause.**

On 7 November, I’ll be taking on the next chapter of this journey, and this time I won’t be doing it alone.

**Krispy Kreme UK Sales Director James Crawford will be joining me to run 50KM across London**, linking together around 20 Krispy Kreme shop along the way.

From **Oxford Street to Wandsworth, Canary Wharf to Waterloo**, we’ll spend the day running our way across the capital, powered by an incredible community, quite possibly a few doughnuts, and most importantly, one shared purpose:

**To raise as much money and awareness as we possibly can for ChemoHero.**

This isn’t just going to be a 50K run.

It’s going to be a moving celebration of friendship, kindness, survival, remembrance and the extraordinary things that can happen when people decide to show up for one another.

Throughout the day, friends, colleagues, runners and supporters will join James and me for a mile or two. We’ll also be joined along the route by one of ChemoHero’s co-founders and three of the charity’s trustees, people who understand better than most exactly what every pound raised can mean to somebody facing cancer.

And then, after nearly 50 kilometres on our feet, something very special will happen.

### 🧡 THE FINAL MILE

For our final mile, we’ll stop running.

And we’ll walk.

We want that last mile to belong to **everyone**.

Krispy Kreme team members. Customers. Friends. Runners. ChemoHero supporters. People whose lives have been touched by cancer. People walking in memory of someone they love. And people who simply want to stand beside us and say:

**You are not alone.**

Together, we’ll walk that final mile with James and me before crossing the finish line and ending the day with a Krispy Kreme celebration.

After 50 kilometres of running, I have a feeling that final mile may be the most powerful mile of them all.

Because ultimately, this has never really been about running.

It’s about people.

It’s about being there when life gets frightening.

It’s about turning compassion into action.

And it’s about a remarkable woman called **Lisa Wallis**.

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## 💛 WHY CHEMOHERO — AND WHY LISA’S STORY MATTERS SO MUCH

ChemoHero exists because Lisa Wallis knew what it felt like to hear the words that change everything.

**“You have cancer.”**

Lisa was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2012, the day after her 30th birthday.

Thirty years old.

A wife. A mum. A whole lifetime that should have stretched endlessly ahead of her.

Suddenly, instead, there were hospital rooms. Treatment plans. Surgery. Radiotherapy. Side effects. Fear. Uncertainty.

During her treatment, Lisa experienced first-hand just how physically and emotionally brutal chemotherapy could be. But rather than allowing that experience to turn her inward, Lisa began thinking about other people.

People sitting in those same waiting rooms.

People arriving terrified for their first chemotherapy session.

People who perhaps didn't have somebody sitting beside them.

She began thinking:

**What could make this just a little bit easier?**

Using everything she had learned through her own treatment, Lisa put together practical and comforting items that could help somebody through chemotherapy.

In 2014, that idea became **ChemoHero**.

Lisa and her husband Rob initially packed boxes in their own front room, spending evenings and weekends delivering them to people undergoing treatment.

They became known as **Boxes of Kindness**.

But they were always so much more than boxes.

They were a hand reaching out at the moment somebody needed it most.

They said:

**We see you.**

**We are thinking about you.**

**You do not have to face this alone.**

Even when Lisa’s cancer returned in 2015 and spread to her bones, she continued.

While living with cancer herself, she kept building something designed to make cancer a little kinder for somebody else.

That tells you everything you need to know about Lisa.

In **August 2021**, nine years after her original diagnosis, Lisa sadly died.

And there is one part of her story that has always hit me particularly hard.

**2021 was also the year I was diagnosed with cancer.**

While Lisa’s family and friends were facing the unimaginable pain of losing her, my own life was suddenly entering the frightening world she had known for almost a decade.

Two very different cancer stories crossing in the same year.

I survived mine.

Lisa devastatingly didn't survive hers.

That is something I will never take for granted.

And it is one of the reasons I run.

I run because I can.

I run because there were days during cancer when simply imagining the future felt difficult.

I run because every kilometre is a reminder that I am still here.

And I run because Lisa created something during the darkest period of her own life that continues to bring light into other people's.

Today, ChemoHero has given **thousands of Boxes of Kindness** to people beginning cancer treatment.

Thousands of people have opened a box during one of the most frightening periods of their lives and discovered that complete strangers cared about them.

That is Lisa's legacy.

Not simply a charity.

Not simply a box.

**Kindness, passed from one human being to another.**

And long after Lisa's death, that kindness keeps moving.

From Lisa.

To ChemoHero.

To another person starting chemotherapy.

And then, hopefully, onwards again.

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## 🏃‍♂️ WHY RUN 50KM ACROSS LONDON?

Because raising money should sometimes be difficult.

Because cancer is difficult.

Because chemotherapy is difficult.

Because the families sitting beside somebody they love while they go through treatment don't get to stop when their legs hurt.

There will undoubtedly be a point somewhere in London when James and I are tired, aching and questioning whose idea this was.

There will probably be several points.

But we get to choose this challenge.

Someone receiving chemotherapy does not.

So we'll keep putting one foot in front of the other.

Store after store.

Mile after mile.

All the way to that final walk together.

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## 🙏 PLEASE BE PART OF IT

If you've landed on this page, please help us make those 50 kilometres count.

**Donate whatever you can.**

£5. £10. £20. More if you're able.

Every donation helps ChemoHero continue Lisa's work and reminds somebody beginning cancer treatment that there are people standing beside them — even people they've never met.

And if you can't donate, please share this page.

Tell somebody what we're doing.

Come and see us somewhere along the route.

Run a mile with us.

Or join us for that final walk.

Because on 7 November, James and I may be the ones covering the 50 kilometres…

**but we want hundreds of people to feel that they crossed that finish line with us.**

For everyone currently going through treatment.

For everyone who has survived.

For every family living with cancer.

For those we have lost.

**And for Lisa.**

Let's run for the people who need a little kindness on the hardest days of their lives.

Let's run for ChemoHero.

And together, let's make Lisa's extraordinary legacy travel another 50 kilometres.

**Andy 💛**

**Krispy Kreme London 50**

**7 November**

**50KM • 20 Krispy Kreme stores • One unforgettable final mile**