cancer fundraising
The Record has gone past £900, and has now raised £925 for Bowel Cancer UK. The sudden surge in sales was down to my wonderful friends and fellow fans of The Alarm, who continue to support all my fundraising endeavours. I spent the weekend at The Gathering, the annual two day event when fans from
Chapter 13 in The Record features Steve Clark, who I spent a fascinating hour and a half with for the chapter in the book back in 2017. We both live in Reading, so arranging a meeting was easy, and Steve suggested The Herb Farm at Sonning Common. This was the first time I had been
One of the reasons why I have written The Record, and why people tell me their story is to help raise awareness about bowel cancer, in the hope that others may not have the experiencing the agony of losing a loved one.
‘Sunrise’ the debut single from my new musical project Fields of Dawn is now available to pre-order. The track is officially released on February 7th, but all pre-orders will count towards the first week of sales. You can pre-order worldwide from all digital download stores and all proceeds raised will be donated to the Love
Chapter 10 of The Record features Deborah Alsina, who is the Chief Excutive of Independent Age. When we met in March 2018 Deborah was the CEO of Bowel Cancer UK.
The gold medal theme continues in chapter 7 of The Record with Zac Purchase-Hill who won Olympic rowing gold at Beijing in 2008. There was a bowel cancer connection to this chapter as Zac’s wife Fliss lost her grandmother to bowel cancer. Zac and Fliss had very different first records – I will leave it
In Chapter 6 of The Record I met Jeanette Chippington, who won gold in Rio in 2016 in the KL1 200m Paracanoeing. I have met quite a few gold medal winners on my travels, but this was the only time I actually got to touch an Olympic gold medal. I actually was fortunate enough to
This photo was taken at my parents grave this week. It’s a place that I always draw comfort from going to, and although it’s their resting place I always enjoy seeing the bulbs breaking through at this time of the year – a sign of new life and Spring not being too far away. It’s
Chapter 5 in The Record saw me meet Paralympian Anne Usher (nee Dickens) who won gold in Rio 2016 in the KL3 200m Paracanoeing. She was training at Dorney Lake on a beautiful, crisp, and very cold January morning in 2017. This was the first time that I had ever been to the scene of so many memorable events during London 2012.
The brand new video for Sunrise by my new musical project Fields of Dawn is now live on YouTube. With three weeks to go until the digital download single is released it’s time to begin ramping up the promotion. The track will be available from all online digital download stores including iTunes, Amazon, Google Music, Apple, Spotify and Napster.
