The National Three Peaks Challenge. Together, we can stand alongside everyone navigating life with cancer, ensuring no one faces this disease feeling unseen or unsupported. Please know you are not alone.
C
Every year, hundreds of thousands of people in this country hear the words no one wants to hear. What follows is a path that tests every part of who we are: physically, emotionally, psychologically and spiritually. The challenges ripple outwards, touching families, friendships, work and the quiet moments we spend alone with our thoughts.
Cancer doesn’t just affect the body. It changes how you think and feel and profoundly affects every aspect of life. I know this personally, and that the journey through and beyond treatment requires more than medicine alone.
I have taken on the National Three Peaks Challenge, not simply as a physical endeavour but as a chance to explore life beyond diagnosis and to give something back. The Royal Marsden is a place that holds great meaning for me and whose care and expertise are life changing for so many people.
Through this challenge, I want to raise awareness for the deeper impact of serious illness and the importance of holistic healthcare. Every individual is different, and ensuring there is a whole person approach to care enables those living through cancer to manage the deeply personal challenge of diagnosis. Holistic therapies complement clinical pathways and support patients’ ability to maintain their wellbeing, resilience and quality of life during an exceptionally difficult time.
We have an opportunity to reshape what the future of holistic cancer care looks like, enabling more people, nationwide, to access the kind of personalised support that can help make a meaningful difference during and after medical treatment.
This challenge will support the Royal Marsden Cancer Charity, helping to transform access to, and understanding of, holistic care that will enhance recovery and healing for patients across the UK.
Healing, whether personal or collective, is not just about fixing what is wrong. It is about finding balance in how we live. Between effort and acceptance, between control and trust, between thinking and simply being. Because in the end, bravery isn’t just about pushing forward. It is about knowing how to stay grounded, connected and present, no matter the terrain, or landscape you are walking through.
Together, we can stand alongside everyone navigating life with cancer, ensuring no one faces this disease feeling unseen or unsupported.
Please know you are not alone.
C
Jeremy Clarkson has announced he is in remission from prostate cancer, days after he shared that he was living with the disease.
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Sunday #run with Danny (6ft6) & Rich (6ft4) making me look short at 6ft. Good for training #running with folk with such a long stride! Ha! New route too that was really nice. Taking in #TempleNewsam estate, #Skeltonlake & the Canal at #Woodlesford love living in #yorkshire#UK
@NeoJrs1983 It’s often a weak core that affects our back, lack of stretches eg Pilates or Yoga and can be weak glutes too. Glad your back is improving. Back pain is horrible.
#running is an addiction. When it is taken away its exasperating. Been grumpy this last fortnight because of my back pain & inability to #run (sorry) now improving with physio. Set off for a careful slow 5k today & as I felt comfortable did 10k. So pleased. Cooled down properly.
7 months ago I set myself a goal to get myself back into a good place mentally. I started running again, going to the gym again, eating healthily, focusing on myself, getting my 8 hours of sleep in a night, getting my 10k steps in a day and it’s crazy how much happier I feel. I’ve just got back from my longest run yet (14.7k) and I’m so so proud of me 💪. One day at a time 😌✨💘
🚨 BREAKING: Keir Starmer's statement after meeting Henry Nowak's family at No 10
"I was profoundly humbled to meet Henry Nowak’s family, Mark, Lucy and Katie, in Downing Street this afternoon, and to see their dignity and strength in the face of unimaginable pain.
"I was moved to learn more about Henry - his kindness, his warmth, and his love of football - and am grateful to his family. There is no doubt he had a bright future ahead of him, a future cruelly stolen from him in appalling circumstances.
"Henry deserves a legacy that goes beyond this awful tragedy, and I am committed to making that happen. I am determined that we do everything in our power to prevent other families from suffering such a devastating loss.
"There are difficult questions that need to be answered about the way the police handled Henry’s murder. The Independent Office for Police Conduct are investigating. We will be unflinching in taking whatever action is required to right the wrongs in this case.
"It is our duty now to ensure that lessons are learned, that justice is delivered and that we choose unity and progress over division and hatred. This is the only way to honour Henry’s memory"
Henry Nowak's mother has said:
"We are a family who have friends across faith and race, and so did Henry. We want his memory to help bring our society together."
And there you have it.