Dawn Greaves
My Story
About me
I took up running 9 years ago when I turned 40. I've never really classed myself as a runner, more of a sloth, i've been pretty steady. Its the taking part that counts but I have competed in lots of races. As I turn 50 in 2025, I have challenged myself to undertake 50 things before I turn 50. For years I have dreamed of taking part in The London Marathon but never managed to get a ballot place, so I have managed to secure a charity place through, Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust.
The Charity aims to help enhance and improve the care that Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust provides to our communities. Through donations, they have been able to work with the Homeless Health and Inclusion Team to supply care packs to vulnerable patients in the homeless community, providing much needed basic items when they are required to stay in hospital. Some patients in the community often do not have anyone to take them sanitary products, hygiene items or even a clean pair of underwear or socks. One woman said to a staff member, "Is this for me? Nobody has ever given me anything!"
The children that are cared for at Hannah House were able to have a brand-new wheelchair accessible minibus, which meant they could continue to explore the world around them and enjoy meaningful activities whilst at respite.
This past Christmas, generous donations meant Christmas presents could be gifted to some of the most vulnerable in the city, some who spent the holidays alone.
Projects like these have made the difference to patients completing their treatments and living a healthier life, and a reduction in re-admission. It's such an honour for me to be able to fundraise to enable this amazing work to continue.
About us
The London Marathon has become an annual, inspiring and colourful fixture in the world’s sporting calendar since the inaugural race on 29 March 1981: a celebration of fun, fundraising and fancy dress.
Over the years more than a million people have completed the 26.2-mile course – which runs from Blackheath to The Mall, with a spectacular finish in front of Buckingham Palace, showcasing the very best that the capital city has to offer.
What’s more, these participants have raised over a billion pounds for charity and there have been countless amazing tales of human achievement throughout the event’s history – living up to its aim of helping participants ‘to have fun, and provide some happiness and sense of achievement in a troubled world’.
