I have chosen to taken on the 30km Cotswold Way Ultra Challenge for Mind, a charity extremely close to my heart. They have helped me at multiple points throughout my life, for a variety of reasons, and are extremely important in raising awareness and helping those living with mental health issues.

Living with a PTSD diagnosis has been a really difficult thing to come to terms with and begin the process of recovering from. Mind has been there in all ways, from discussing ways to get professional help, reading their information pages, and dealing with crisis points. I want to be able to give back to them even a small amount of what they have given me.

I am choosing specifically to walk this in memory of my best friend, Tom, who I lost to suicide last year. We would often go exploring together, on long walks with no clear end goal (although often getting distracted and making daisy chains on the way!!)

Thank you for reading<3

I have linked Mind's 'about us' page below, where they detail all of the ways in which they are helping those in England & Wales, and their achievements over the last 70+ years:

https://www.mind.org.uk/about-us/