Our Zac recently sadly passed aged 22 after being unwell with metastatic cancer for 14 months. He was brave and stoical through his chemotherapy and other treatments at CGH and BHOC.

He thrived at Holy Trinity Primary and Balcarras Secondary Schools with many friends. He studied Environmental Science for a year at UWE before he became ill.

He liked working at Dunkerton's, the Ivy and Merryfellow pub In Cheltenham. He enjoyed travelling in his year out especially the rainforests in Costa Rica.

He played football for Leckhampton, Charlton Rovers and rugby for Old Pats, and ran for Cheltenham Harriers, a close second in the county cross country championships one year.

He was a fun loving guy, an athlete, loved his family and friends, music, nature, vintage clothes. We'll all miss him deeply forever.

We would like to thank the outstanding NHS staff involved in his care at CGH with a fund raising hike of at least 250 miles, possibly up to 600 miles, on the Cape Wrath Trail, then Glencoe and the West Highland Way, then parts of the Cumbrian Way, Penine Way and Snowdonia Trail to return to Cheltenham on the Cotswold Way.

Bluey the retriever and I have hiked extensively in Scottish wild areas before. We hope family and friends will join us for some sections, or a day or two or an hour and especially for the final section on Saturday May 9th 2026 ending at CGH oncology.

Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a designated Regional Cancer Centre and has provided specialist cancer care for people in our community for more than 60 years supporting hundreds of thousands of local people to receive the best care there is to offer. Many of the current facilities are over 25 years old and a new modern building is needed to care for future generations.

We are fundraising for The Big Space Cancer Appeal to help build a bigger, brighter home for cancer care.

For more information, please visit www.bigspacecancerappeal.co.uk

We will set up a web page with information about the hike, photos and progress.

If anyone would prefer a more national or international charity we received great kindness from CLIC Sargent's Young Lives vs Cancer and also as keen environmentalists and animal lovers support the World Wildlife Fund.