Thanks for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page.

Since being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2009, I was given a determination to make the very best of my life. I was a bus driver and due to the difficulties I was suddenly suffering from and the problems that were occurring, I needed to find a new direction in life.

I had left school with no GCSE's and I actually had no skills I could fall back on either. So after finally coming to terms with the fact that my physical being was now facing a daily challenge, I decided that I needed to become a teacher so that I could help as many young people as possible to become as successful as possible so that they could have lives that were as far from difficult as possible.

I needed to get my GCSE's, my A levels and my degree in mathematics to do this. This was done by dedicating all my free time to being the best I could and get in to the classroom because it was my sole focus.

Having made it to where I wanted to get, I settled in to teaching mathematics to the young people in my classes. I needed to also be able to talk to them about life and enjoy sharing snippets of the world as I teach.

Finally, after having accepted that my legs were at a point that a wheelchair was needed for me to get around in the world, I was given a new lease of life. I have never felt so free and so very alive even though my body is still slowly failing me.

I was talked in to taking part in a parkrun in June this year and even though it took me 1hr 18mins, I had caught the bug. After 3 months I have got my time down to just over 43 minutes and also completed the Vitality 10km in 1hr 11 mins. It was after a couple of Parkruns I decided on my challenge. Push my wheelchair from one side of the country to the other. The idea wouldn't leave my mind and after telling enough people this challenge is certainly on to be completed summer 2025.

I wish to raise enough money as possible for my two chosen charities and hope that you can help by giving whatever you can.

I won't be around forever but I am hoping the mark I leave will go a little to enriching someone else's lives.

Many thanks

Ben