Thank you for visiting my fundraising page - see below for my list of challenges in 2024/25.

As many of you will know I sadly lost my Dad in March 2023 following many years of suffering at the hands of Alzheimer's Disease. This is such a cruel condition which has a devastating impact on the person but also a significant impact on their family and friends.

To support people currently suffering with dementia and hopefully contribute towards finding a cure, I am running the London Marathon in April 2025 to raise money for the Alzheimer’s Society. In the build up to the London Marathon, I am doing a year of activities to raise as much money as possible for such a worthy cause with friends joining me along the way (see the list below):

1️⃣ Manchester Marathon 2024 (14th April 2024 with Andy) ✅

2️⃣ Great Manchester 10k run (26th May 2024 with Caroline) ✅

3️⃣ Cycling to the Bolton Wanderers Stadium from other north-west stadiums:

🚴🏻‍♂️ Ride 1 (56.94 miles) - Bolton Wanderers > Salford City > Manchester City > Stockport County > Manchester United > Bolton Wanderers (11th May 2024 with John and Rob) ✅

🚴🏻‍♂️ Ride 2 (130.62 miles over two days) - Barrow > Morecambe > Fleetwood > Blackpool > Preston North End > Bolton Wanderers (2nd/3rd August 2024 with John and Rob) ✅

🚴🏻‍♂️ Ride 3 (33.67 miles) - Burnley > Accrington Stanley > Blackburn Rovers > Bolton Wanderers (2nd November 2024 with John and Rob) ✅

🚴🏻‍♂️ Ride 4 (45.82 miles) - Tranmere Rovers > Everton’s new stadium > Everton > Liverpool > Wigan Athletic > Bolton Wanderers (8th March 2025 with John and Rob) ✅

4️⃣ Walking the ‘Wakefield Way’ route around the Wakefield district (81.34 miles split into seven separate walks):

🥾 Walk 1 - Pontefract Tanshelf to South Elmsall (2nd June 2024, 15.33 miles with Lisa) ✅

🥾 Walk 2 - South Elmsall to Hemsworth (12th October 2024, 8.10 miles with Nick) ✅

🥾 Walk 3 - Hemsworth to Newmillerdam (22nd July 2024, 10.85 miles with Si and Matt) ✅

🥾 Walk 4 - Newmillerdam to Yorkshire Sculpture Park (1st September 2024, 10.78 miles with Carol) ✅

🥾 Walk 5 - Yorkshire Sculpture Park to Horbury Bridge (6th April, 11.02 miles with Lisa) ✅

🥾 Walk 6 - Horbury Bridge to Stanley Ferry (28th July 2024, 14.72 miles with James) ✅

🥾 Walk 7 - Stanley Ferry to Pontefract Tanshelf (18th September 2024, 10.54 miles with Sarah, Nia and Billy) ✅

5️⃣ Walking from Old Trafford to the Reebok Stadium (14th July 2024, 17 miles with Bev) ✅

6️⃣ Walking to the top of Scafell Pike from Great Langdale (19th July 2024, 15.4 miles with John) ✅

7️⃣ Walking from Carrick-a-Rede rope bridge to Giant's Causeway (11th August 2024, 13.43 miles with Lisa, Diane, Paul, Scott and Paula) ✅

8️⃣ Peak District walking challenge: Jacob’s Ladder, Kinder Scout, Mill Hill, Bleaklow Head, Higher Shelf Stones, James’s Thorn (24th August 2024, 16.56 miles with Bekah) ✅

9️⃣ Yorkshire 3 Peaks Challenge (Pen-y-Ghent, Whernside, Ingleborough) (13th September 2024, 25.48 miles completed in 11 hours 20 mins with John W, John B, Dave, Rob, James, Jamie, Andy) ✅

1️⃣0️⃣ Hell on the Humber challenge (Helloween 2024) to complete as many 4 mile loops back and forth over the Humber Bridge in 6 hours (28 miles completed in 5 hours 39 minutes) (26th October 2024) ✅

1️⃣1️⃣ Walking from Darwen Tower to Rivington Pike (10th November 2024, 12.79 miles with Lee) ✅

1️⃣2️⃣ Swimming challenge (20th December 2024, over 14km covered by me, Caroline and my niece and nephew) ✅

1️⃣3️⃣ Roundhay Reindeer Run in memory of Matt Harvey (21st December 2024, 7 miles with Matt’s son Will and a great gang of Matt’s friends) ✅

1️⃣4️⃣ Walking from St Helens Stadium to Bolton Wanderers Stadium (26th January 2025, 15.03 miles with Claire) ✅

1️⃣5️⃣ Walking from Rivington Pike to Darwen Tower (15th February 2025, 13.35 miles with Abi) ✅

1️⃣6️⃣ North Lincolnshire Half Marathon (2nd March 2025 with Matt) ✅

1️⃣7️⃣ Wakefield 10k run (16th March 2025 with Paul, Rich, Chris and Laura) ✅

1️⃣8️⃣ Bolton Community 10k run (13th April 2025) and Ralph doing the 2k run to support ✅

1️⃣9️⃣ London Marathon 2025 (27th April 2025) ✅

If you could spare any money to support this important cause it would be amazing.

Around 1 in 14 people over 65 now has dementia and this rises to 1 in 6 people aged over 80. It can also affect younger people too. It is time to end the suffering that this condition causes.

I will keep updating the page below as I go!

Thank you.