In July 2026 I will be taking part in a huge challenge.

I will be riding The Route, which means cycling every stage of the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift, one day ahead of the professionals, alongside a team of female amateur cyclists. Over 9 days we’ll cover more than 700 miles (1126 km). But this is nothing like the challenge that anyone with blood cancer has.

My husband, Andrew, passed away in October 2024.

He battled diffuse large B Cell Lymphoma for 2 and a half years. He had many cutting edge treatments including genetically modifying his cells in Car T Cell therapy. As part of this, some of his cells remain at John Radcliffe hospital in Oxford and he asked for them to be used in research. Andrew specifically wanted to help others as part of his journey and so we are working with The Institute of Cancer Research, and their Centre for Cancer Drug Discovery who have been designing and discovering drugs that knock out the activity of BCL-6 (B cell lymphoma) Even within the last month, a new drug combination has been discovered to help patients combat this disease.

Cure Leukaemia helps blood cancer patients to access pioneering drug and transplant treatments by funding a network of specialist research nurses across the UK. Without these nurses, to ensure patients are monitored and cared for, clinical trials of these new treatments would not run and patients, that have exhausted standard treatment options, would miss out on potentially lifesaving therapies. Every penny raised for Cure Leukaemia helps save lives and also hastens global progress towards the eradication of all forms of blood cancer.