As you may know, I love a run and in 2024 I’m running the London Marathon, since even though I’ve done a few marathons before, I’ve never run the biggest race in my hometown.

This is the slightly awkward and obligatory charity collection request, however I do hope you’ll take the time to consider a donation to my chosen charity ‘RedR’ who are very connected to the world of insurance and indeed the entire Lloyd’s market.

Some brief information on RedR -

RedR’s ethos is based around the ideal that everyone should be able to count on fair, sustainable, effective, and dignifying humanitarian support in crisis. Some of you may have come across their flagship climate project ‘Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction’ which is funded by AXA XL.

Their work focuses on strengthening the capacity of agencies, aid workers, and affected communities to prepare, respond and recover from complex humanitarian crises. As someone who works in claims I can see the importance of their work in training people on the ground in both responding to natural disasters and preparing communities for possible catastrophic events.

Here’s their website if you’d like to know more or do ask and I can send a load more examples of their amazing work in Libya post the 2023 floods, and their work in Ukraine since the outbreak of the current conflict.

https://www.redr.org.uk/

If you have no interest in any of the above, then thank you for your patience over the next few weeks as I wander around London, dazed, hungry and possibly smelly.

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RedR UK works to strengthen the capacity of agencies, aid workers, and affected communities to prepare, respond and recover from complex humanitarian crises. We provide learning and development services for the humanitarian and development sectors, envisioning a world in which highly skilled professionals respond effectively, inclusively, and sustainably to disasters, wherever they are in the world.

Working with the largest international multilateral agencies as well as local actors at the grassroots level, and many other partners across the private sector, trusts and foundations, and academia, we innovate at the nexus of climate change, engineering in emergencies, and humanitarian response.