I'm running the Norfolk Marathon on Sunday 13th April 2025 to raise funds for Big C and in memory of my Nan, Margaret Hubbert - who we sadly lost to complications following cancer treatment on 16th January 2024, aged 81.

Family meant everything to her and she meant everything to us. She played such an important role throughout childhood and adulthood for me, my sister Jodie and cousins Ash and Melissa. She was the best Nan anyone could ever ask for.

She was the biggest supporter of everything I did. She bought me my first guitar, my first band t-shirt and was one of the first to buy my teenage band's CD (which I know she never played because grotty street punk music wasn't her bag and she was secretly hoping my studded leather jacket and mohawk was just a phase). She'd look after me as a kid when I would need to come home ill from school and even occassionally did my weekly paper round which was always the BEST surprise coming home from school on a Wednesday afternoon and realising I could spend time playing guitar and Playstation instead! Even as an adult, every time I visited family back in my hometown of Spalding, she wouldn't let me leave without shoving a folded £20 note into my hand and saying "some petrol money" - never listening whenever I told her she shouldn't and doesn't need to give it to me.

I feel incredibly lucky to have had such a caring and supportive Nan and have so many memories of her. Unfortunately it felt like she was taken from us too soon, but we took comfort as a family that she decided to pass on her own terms - which was very much her way of doing things!

I've also got so many fond memories of summer days out with my Nan and Grandad in Norfolk as a kid, so it kind of feels right to be running my first marathon in Norfolk in memory of her and raising money for the Big C.

Every year more than 8,000 people in Norfolk and Waveney are told the news that they have cancer, and many more are living with the effects every day. Their work focuses on four key areas - supporting people affected by cancer, funding world-class local research, providing vital medical equipment and facilities in the county's main hospitals and educating local people about cancer for the future.

Any donation you can provide will make a difference and support me as I pant and plod my way around the 26.2 miles in a target time of 4:30:00.

Thank you!