 My name is Chris, we're here today in Orem which is the National Performance Centre for Sport. My role here is head of delivery. Get as many people taking part in sport and physical activity as possible to help their own physical and mental well-being. I lost my dad in September 2019 after about 18 months with a battle with cancer. My mum took it really hard right away throughout the period and her mental health just declined significantly. ac we lost her through suicide in January 2020. One thing that was stayed constant throughout that period of time was me trying to proactively look after my own wellbeing and a way in which I was doing that was through running. It was a cathartic way to process it all, to go through all the different emotions that I was feeling and be able to feel alive and feel healthy. It was coming up to mum's year anniversary of her death and I was absolutely dreading that day. Losing someone is hard enough but through suicide is really difficult because you are aware of everything that went on in that particular day and your question yourself is to what you could have done differently. The build-up and the actual day itself was really difficult and I knew it was going to be difficult so I wanted to try and change that and do a challenge and build up to the 28th of January when we lost mum and run 10k a day. I picked two charities very close to my heart, one being Survivors of Breed by Suicide two, I went along to group sessions and so raised some money for them as well as a charity up here in Scotland called Back On Side who try and improve people's mental health through sport so it was something that just really captured my imagination and wanted to do something specifically for them. I ended up raising over £25,000 which was just overwhelming in terms of like just couldn't believe the volume of donations that came in. It was just brilliant and it just spurred me on right through the whole challenge. All that money went straight into the mental health charity. The first bit of advice is talk. Open up and speak to someone about how you're feeling. As soon as you get through that first step everything is so much easier as well. You feel like there's a weight lifted off you. Do things which make you feel good and that means that you're able to work past any negative feelings that you've got just reflect that life is good and things will pass.