TROTT - LAND'S END TO JOHN O'GROATS

TROTT – LAND'S END TO JOHN O'GROATS! 

In July 2010, five students from Kingston Grammar School: Tudor Morris, Robbie Montgomery, Oli Clements, Tarn Huxford, Tom Beaumont embarked upon the cycle of their lives - from Land's End to John O'Groats – and raised over £10,000 for Momentum. Tudor Morris has a particular reason for supporting our charity and he writes:

"When I was 13 years old I was diagnosed with Stage 3 cancer. I had Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma that had spread to clusters around my heart, lungs and neck.

'The big C' had always been a word that scared me - my late mother sadly passed away when I was 6 years old, and knowing that, when I had it, reminded me of its potency - not just to individuals, but to families.

Over the next two years I underwent surgery to remove the tumours on my neck and intensive chemotherapy course for those in my chest.

I moved to and fro between the Royal Marsden and Kingston Hospital, where Momentum had only really just started.

One of the worst things was being in containment - when your immune system is so low that you could be put at risk from a minor infection and you are essentially put in a sanitised room until your bloods improve. You can be in there for weeks on end without really being able to leave one room, or the relative 'infection safe' zone safety of the hospital ward. Of course, family and friends are allowed to visit, but only if they aren't ill themselves.

Momentum were able to provide me with all sorts of entertainment when I was at Kingston - I could request pretty much anything (within reason, of course) and spent hours watching Simpsons DVDs and reading books when I wasn't sleeping. or doing schoolwork (!)

That was around five years ago now, and luckily I am now cancer free, having beaten the disease that my mother sadly succumbed to all those years ago. Momentum has changed vastly since then - when I was at Kingston, it was a very small charity, but with generous donations from the public it has grown - and they are able to give much more help to families with children affected by cancer.

Naturally, I wanted to give something back to Momentum - for what they did for me, and the massive amount of support that they continue to give today."

If you would still like to donate to this incredible team effort, visit

Team TROTT's Just Giving site.