My Story

In April 2025, I will lace up my running shoes, pin on my race bib, and run 26.2 miles through London.  I am running the 2025 TCS London Marathon to raise vital funds for Children with Cancer UK, a charity who's vision is a world where every child and young person survives.

I run the London Marathon 2025 in loving memory of a very special little girl. 
Neive is my cousin Sarah’s daughter and she very sadly departed in October 2023 after a valiant and courageous display of determination and will facing Rhabdomyosarcoma. She was fiercely independent, she loved to sing and dance, her favourites being Oasis and she also had a deep rooted love for animals and flowers. She brightened everyone’s lives and her everlasting love and light will be carried through us all forever. 

I run to raise awareness of childhood cancer, I run to raise funds to enable research into this disease and I run to bring childhood cancer to the forefront. The children of today deserve better. They deserve a chance and they deserve more acknowledgment. 

This is a short snippet of Neive’s  story with Rhabdomyosarcoma:

Neive aged 5, was diagnosed with embryonal/fusion negative parameningeal rhabdomyosarcoma, in September 2022. Her care was led from Birmingham Children’s Hospital and she endured nine rounds of intensive chemotherapy & proton beam therapy. Neive commenced maintenance chemotherapy in April 2023 but sadly her end of treatment scans in September 2023 showed disease progression in the brain and spinal fluid. Neive went home on palliative care to be with her family. She passed away peacefully and gracefully in her own bed on 24th October 2023 at aged 6 years old with her Mum holding hands and surrounded by unconditional love.