My Story

I have always wanted to run the London Marathon — and when the chance came up to run for FLEET (Front Line Emergency Equipment Trust), I couldn’t say no.

This will be my first marathon, and I’m loving the challenge of training, getting marathon-fit, and pushing myself further than ever before.

I’m fundraising for FLEET, a Cornwall-based charity that helps provide life-saving equipment for frontline ambulance crews and first responders across the county. Founded in the 1990s by a Cornish paramedic, FLEET has spent decades upgrading the kit carried on ambulances and supporting other emergency services too — including community first responders, motorbike medics, and air ambulances.

As well as supplying vital equipment, FLEET runs free CPR and defibrillator training sessions for the public, delivers specialist training for medical professionals to improve trauma care, and helps make Cornwall safer by placing bleed control kits in pubs across the county.

If you’re able to donate, you’ll be helping put the best possible equipment and training into the hands of the people who save lives every day. Thank you so much for your support.

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’.