Thanks for visiting my page.

Up to 2024 I was running the Hackney Half (three times) chiefly to prove I could do it! - but in 2025 I decided to make a difference to fellow 'east-enders' by raising some funds. Lent the whole thing a quite different flavour! I'm lucky enough to have needed the skills available at Barts only a couple of times - but who knows about the future? Just recently I've been re-engaged with this amazing 903-year-old institution (still in the place where it was first founded!) by the start of Dr Alice Roberts' new documentary series (Channel Five) on its history, its pioneering research and its day-to-day participation in the health of ordinary people in the East End of London.

I'm excited to be taking part in the Hackney Half 2026 to help Barts Charity be there through it all for the people of East London.

They bring brilliant ideas, ground-breaking research and transformational healthcare to life and as one of the UK’s most diverse areas, East London has unique healthcare challenges and is an important place to break new ground in health research and innovations in patient care.

As well as supporting the well-being of Barts Health NHS staff, because well supported staff support patients well.

Any support raised through this event means the people of East London benefit from life-changing research and innovative healthcare improvements.

Thank you,

Jonathan