Our Zac recently sadly passed aged 22 after being unwell with metastatic cancer for 14 months. He was brave and stoical through his chemotherapy and other treatments at CGH and BHOC. He was a fun loving guy, an athlete, loved his family and friends, music, nature, vintage clothes. We'll all miss him deeply forever. We are focusing on our many happy memories.

We would like to thank the outstanding NHS staff involved in his care with a fund raising hike of at least 250 miles, possibly up to 600 miles, on the Cape Wrath Trail, then Glencoe and the West Highland Way, then parts of the Cumbrian Way, Pennine Way and Snowdonia Trail to return to Cheltenham on the Cotswold Way.

Bluey the retriever and I have hiked extensively in Scottish wild areas before. We hope family and friends will join us for some sections, or a day or two or an hour and especially for the final section on Saturday May 9th 2026 ending at CGH oncology.

Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a designated Regional Cancer Centre and has provided specialist cancer care for people in our community for more than 60 years supporting hundreds of thousands of local people to receive the best care there is to offer. Many of the current facilities are over 25 years old and a new modern building is needed to care for future generations.

We are fundraising for The Big Space Cancer Appeal to help build a bigger, brighter home for cancer care.

For more information, please visit www.bigspacecancerappeal.co.uk

We will also write a blog of the journey with photos, updates and plans if anyone would like to join for an hour or a day or two or just meet (with treats).

If anyone would prefer a more national or international charity we received great kindness from CLIC Sargent: Young Lives vs Cancer and also as keen environmentalists and animal lovers support the World Wildlife Fund.