Brain tumours kill more children and adults under the age of 40 than any other cancer… yet just 1% of the national spend on cancer research has been allocated to this devastating disease. This is unacceptable!

In January 2020 I was diagnosed with a glioblastoma (GBM) brain tumour. I was informed that this type of cancer is incurable, and my life expectancy was to be measured in months rather than years.

Three weeks later I underwent a seven hour operation, performed whilst I was awake by the amazing staff and surgeons at St George’s Hospital, Tooting.

February 2020 I started 6 weeks of radiotherapy and 14 months of chemotherapy. Not the greatest situation to be in as the Covid pandemic hit.

April 2021 I started my rehabilitation. It’s been a very long road, but with the help of close family and fantastic friends, very slowly I have become stronger and stronger.

So now seems the right time to raise some money for the Brain Tumour Research Charity to try and tackle this horrendous disease. This charity was founded in 2009, with the aim to increase the national investment in brain tumour research and to also set up and fund Centres of Excellence that carry out research into all types of brain cancers. They now support four Centres of Excellence and carry out some amazing work. For example, University of Plymouth Centre has recently had a breakthrough with low-grade brain tumours and researchers at the Centre of Excellence at Queen Mary University have made a breakthrough which could improve the treatments of patients diagnosed with glioblastoma.

My aim is to raise a minimum of £5,500. This amount will fund two days of vital research at one Centre of Excellence.

To try and raise as much as we can, I promise that if the £5,500 target is reached by May 6th Coronation Day, I will personally donate an additional £5,500.

See what we did there – a cycle to a castle and a deadline date of Coronation Day! This is not just thrown together you know.

Please give what you can. Together we will find a cure.