This week, I’m setting off to cycle the full circumference of Ireland, over 3,000 km, solo and unsupported, to raise £30,400 for food allergy research.

We are calling it the Traces of Ireland challenge, and I’m riding it for my six-year-old daughter, who lives with multiple severe food allergies. For her and millions of others, food isn’t just fuel. It’s a risk. A daily threat. A constant battle with a world that isn’t designed for people like her.

To reflect that, I’ll ride the entire route while avoiding peanuts, tree nuts, sesame, lentils, and anything that might contain them, the same strict diet she follows every day. This is more than a challenge. It’s a message.

Food allergies are not a choice. They’re a serious, often invisible condition affecting 1 in 10 children in the UK. And they remain dangerously underfunded, misunderstood, and overlooked — especially in the worlds of sport, travel, and nutrition.

I’m raising money for The Natasha Allergy Research Foundation, the UK’s only charity dedicated to medical research into food allergies. Their goal is bold: to make allergy history.

Every donation helps:

• £10 provides allergy education packs for a school

• £25 trains 50 teachers to support allergic kids

• £100 covers a life-saving dose of treatment for a child

• £1,500 funds six months on the life-changing Natasha Clinical Trial

If we hit the target, we could fund 20 trial places for allergic children, and take a real step toward a future where no child has to live in fear of their food.

Thank you for reading and supporting. Let’s make allergy history.