Hello, welcome to my continuous journey of aiming to bring funds into The Christie ' at Manchester.

Please feel free to read all of this to get the story line of where we are, where we have been and where obviously we are going :

EDIT 21/07/25 NEXT team venture 4th October Tatton park 10k / 5k

running, walking waddling and staggering. We support the Christie but I also acknowledge others, therefore charitably Agnostic. We have lots of other events to come, and will keep evolving into more and more, I will typically be wanting to do it all, and some events I will do will not be pushed here.

such Beetham tower( Hilton ) 1,000 steps

Altrincham 10k- now sold out - Sept

The 10k Tatton as we know this year

But also

Parachute jump

Wing walking

and Marathon all in April May June 2026

We will have to increase numbers always to increase opportunities for people to raise, as we all cannot be going back to family and friends without annoying them. So I ask everyone to try and gain donations, but also try to get other people to join me, you and .. us

I'm first doing my own fundraising but also jumping on and creating my own 'group/team ' events or and getting on other's ' such as 10ks and more.

If you your coming on board for a specific event all very good and welcome, but you may be blown away with lots of other bits of info.

You'll have your own just giving page but also can add on here a Cumulative team to show what you and I and many others are creating.

Im doing a very long walk and lots of other stuff.

But the 1st team was Macclesfield Christie to Manchester, extremely successful and has supercharged the team pot by over £5,000

From this we look to next fundraiser which looks like 10K Tatton park 4th October.

Christie will pay for your place and an obligation to raise £120

EDIT 25 06 25 - Now changed my own target to 1,000 miles and I have reached 501miles as of last night. I have also added a few extra challenges

Altrincham 10K, Beetham tower 64 floor walk. Parachute Jump 11,000 ft.

Plus the Manchester Marathon (

Thanks for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page. EDIT 01/06/2025

Hi, and thanks for viewing my page, and here are my 1million and one reasons for fundraising.

Since the start of this walk at April1st (same day I got my 2 year clear) I have amazed with support, good wishes, help and just how much

The Christie group of hospitals mean to me and many more.

I lost a kidney in March 2025, and always have been a fundraiser at heart for multiple charities. Kept telling myself when feeling a bit better, would give back. After losing my sister in late March 25 to a 14 year on and off battle with Cancer, Daz Symes a good mate who incidentally had a kidney out 5 weeks before me, as well as brother in law with Kidney cancer last year.

It has marched me to taking action, long passed are the Manchester 10k's dressed a Pikachu, Minion , Speed, Camera and even the Tango man.

Not wanting to make a single effort of another one of those, I was sat thinking one night how I have a million and reasons to want to talk people I have lost, but also a million and one reasons to give back.

I went on holiday Oct 2024 and could still only muster about 3/4s of a mile at most without having to rest my legs and get my breath back, I had become that unfit and fatigued.

So mad idea's and calculations I decided on a "proper" challenge with no time limit. 1,000,001 and one steps!!, Now I get about 1300/1350 steps per km/2100 per mile. Could I do 200,000 steps per month (93 mile) geez, I will give it go I suppose. ( see last paragraph for changes )

Spoke to the wonderful people at Christies to say I wanted to start my own walk, and here we have it.

Edit Edit : 2month in and I have already reached 800,000 steps, I have lost 17lbs in weight, my feet don't feel like mine. I have started a local strollers group, to get others fitter, some company.

Plus have now just about organized a real challenge

Christie @ Macclesfield to Christie @ Withington 5th July 2025 with as many people as possible raising their own sponsorship. We have 16.5 route, a 5.5 mile and a 1 mile route for all to join in.

Planning all sorts of of other fun, and loving it all

So much so as I get to the 1,000,001I am going to carry, not at the pace I have been going but if I can do 470miles ish to get to the 1,000,001 way ahead of schedule. Why not and thankyou to the contributor with my new nickname " Forrest Lump" keep going. Say Lands and end to John o' Groats which is about 1.8million, but I know what will happen then , I will want to finish at 2,000,001. So that's why and why

The Macclesfield one is at https://manchestertomacclesfield-co-uk.instage.co.uk/

Speak soon

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