Katy Wey

I’m running the London Marathon 2025 to fight for lung health!

Every minute, someone in the UK is diagnosed with a lung condition.  Every pound I'm able to raise will take us a step closer to a world where everyone has healthy lungs.

Just £22 allows one of Asthma + Lung UK's nurses to answer a call on the Helpline, offering potentially lifesaving advice. I'd be very grateful for any donations you could make! I want to make a difference. I'm running the London Marathon 2025 for Asthma + Lung UK, the only UK charity that fights for everyone’s right to breathe.

I have been asthmatic since birth and was in and out of hospital as a child, but as I grew up, I have experienced incredible advancements in medication. Thanks to this, my asthma is now so under control I can even enter a marathon.

The reason I am running for Asthma + Lung UK is to give back and say thank you for all the hard work and research that has gone into keeping me so well. 

It is also because I know that I am lucky. I know there is still work to be done and that there are still too many people seriously ill and dying from asthma attacks and other lung conditions every year and I would like to help fund research to stop this happening.

And finally, the reason I want to run the London Marathon is because I want to show other people, particularly children who have just been diagnosed, that being asthmatic is not a barrier to anything. You can still do everything you want to, just with a little bit of help from an inhaler.