 The ultimate fight that I ever had was still living with terminal cancer, sorry, temporary to totally gone cancer, eight or nine years on. My name is Dave Bolton and I am the founder and lead trustee of Ahead of the Game Foundation. The foundation was born out of my own real lived experience in 2014. I was diagnosed with an astrocytoma brain tumour, the size of a tennis ball in the front hemisphere of my brain. That led with a five-year diagnosis. Following a craniotomy and removal I was up speaking within three hours and I was discharged within three days. A year later I went in for a random scan and unfortunately on the midline of my brain there was a world's deadliest tumour, the biggest killer of all cancers. I was given a three-month diagnosis with that. I went home, I was sat on the couch and I was waiting to die. But I thought if six months is the average then there must be people to go before but there must be people who get to 18 months which is usually the longest anyone will live. So I put myself in a fight. I named it Terry, he was my opponent and I put a camp around it so I got my mindfulness right, my diet, ulcerative therapies, supplementation, physical exercise, meditation, tackling at 360. The scans kept getting better, it kept shrinking and after about five years which would have put me in 5% of the world's population I kind of wanted to see what I could do to help others because I thought there must be people in similar situations with no support and I wanted to show that other people that there is another way so I re-chained as a cancer rehabilitation specialist, especially treatment related fatigue which is devastating. To name's objectives for head of game is to provide physical, mental and emotional rehabilitation through prescribed coached sessions also to support the families of the loved ones as well. When you come off that treadmill for cancer treatments and you're on your own and because it didn't have radiotherapy etc I didn't need to have physiotherapy so I wasn't aware that I'd lost range of movement. A friend of mine who knew Dave suggested I got in touch with him, I didn't. Dave got in touch with me because at the time I just wasn't talking to people, mixing with people, just wanted to stay at home doing nothing and then we've been on a journey together ever since. I think there is a massive need for what we do. One of our ambassadors Anna Crofton actually says that our foundation is bridging the gaps in rehabilitation, we don't just focus on the physical, it's the mental, it's the emotional. After being told that I had the terminal brain tumour there was nothing more the surgeon couldn't do, he mentioned about positivity and then he was just like you know speak to Dave Bolton. So when I researched Dave I was just like yeah I think he's got something here and ever since I haven't looked back. It's a crazy thing to say that this terminal brain tumour has actually brought out the best in me which was all key from meeting Dave. He must have a phone book full of people that are requesting his help all the time and he's always there. I don't know how he spreads himself around everybody. He's very driven and that drive it gets through to you. The National Lottery have been instrumental not only for when we were right at the beginning, that first initial sum of 10 grand put the blueprints put the foundations to see what we do today but I would say one of the big things was being in a place where I could speak openly honestly without pity without judgment to others in going through the same situation meant the world to me. It's really helped me with my mental health so it's projects like this that have been funded by the National Lottery have enabled us to improve the quality of the lives of those in our communities who are suffering the worst.