During the month of May I plan to complete 600 laps in the Hastings swimming pool for The Sara Lee Trust as part of their Laps of Love campaign.

Each lap is 25 metres so by the end of the challenge I will have swum 15 kilometres!

Every year this local charity helps hundreds of people in Hastings and Rother affected by cancer and other life threatening illnesses by offering their free therapy services.

In a life which may have become dominated by the medical, The Sara Lee Trust provides “a hand to hold” in a safe and nurturing environment, not only for the patient but for their carers, family members and loved ones too, because they know that illness does not just affect the patient, but those around them as well.