A lawyer specialising in charity work is practising what he preaches by aiming to raise £1 million to help fund the fight to find a cure.
Chester-based Robert Nieri, Legal Director at Shoosmiths, donned the look of the Mad Hatter, with a top hat and wild orange hair, to cycle 874 miles, the equivalent of John O’Groats to Land’s End, around Chester’s famous Roman walls, as well as along the Shropshire Union Canal. Throughout August, Robert cycled an average of 30 miles a day, rising before dawn to complete a 12-mile loop before work and then heading out again after hours for another 24 miles, often finishing as the light faded.
Inspired by the death of his uncle, also called Robert Nieri, at just 36, two months after diagnosis with a brain tumour, Robert’s target is to fund a year’s research at one of the Charity’s Centres of Excellence.
Robert said: “I want my challenge to be a way in which ordinary people like me can feel they are making a meaningful difference to achieve something positive.
“This is so important at the moment when most of us feel helpless in the face of global events and a natural reaction is to surrender to apathy and close our minds and hearts to the bad stuff going on around us.”
If you have been inspired by Robert's challenge, you can add a donation to his fundraising page here.
