Sydenham Garden offers places to people experiencing mental health crisis. Their two sites in Sydenham and Forest Hill provide safe spaces for people to begin their recovery, while engaging in gardening and craft activities.

It is a lifeline for many people and provides an important and unique addition to mental health services. Increased funding will enable them to keep operating and offer more places, amplifying their work to more member of the community.

For the past 3 years, I have been giving back to the community, picking up litter and changing the green spaces around Bell Green, as 'Love Bell Green'.

On April 12, I will be running Brighton Marathon for the second time, aiming to complete the 26.2 miles while still able to run, after hitting the wall in 2024 at my first ever marathon. At the ripe old age of 50.

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