“I was diagnosed with Philadelphia – Positive Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia in April 2020. I spent 7 weeks of treatment in the Rendcomb wards at Cheltenham general, before being transferred to Bristol for my stem cell transplant. It was an incredibly challenging period, and I am still living with side effects now.

The treatment has been hugely successful, and 1 am approaching five years in remission this summer. I’m back playing sport (a much less intense level than before) and I am planning on marking the occasion with a charity cricket match at my club Hatherley and Redding’s on the 10th of August. The game will be my club Hatherley vs The England Transplant cricket team which promotes the importance of organ donation and signing up to the Anthony Nolan stem cell transplant list.

Hopefully we can raise lots of money for Linc who have helped me throughout the challenges of my diagnosis and treatment. I am a huge supporter of what they do and play in the golf day every year which is always a highlight of the summer.”

– Tom Coote