Run Talk Run
A global mental health running community I founded in 2017, which grew to 100+ runs, 200+ volunteers, and thousands of runners worldwide.
In October 2017, I founded Run Talk Run - a free, weekly 5km running group created to increase accessibility to mental health support and movement in a non-judgmental environment.
The concept was simply to run at a talking pace and create a space where people could show up exactly as they are. What began as a single Thursday evening run from Monument Station in central London, with just a handful of people, has since grown into a global community of 100+ runs and walks - from Southampton to Seattle to Schaffhausen, Switzerland - supported by over 200 volunteers, all recruited, trained and managed by me.
In 2020, I built and implemented a regional volunteer structure to help scale Run Talk Run's impact across the UK, bringing on a dedicated team to support leaders and runners at a local level. We also developed meaningful partnerships with race organisers, including Ultra X for the first ever London Ultra, extending our reach beyond weekly runs and into major events. Today, Run Talk Run supports thousands of runners every week.
Run Talk Run was born from my own experience of using running and community to navigate depression, anxiety and bulimia. That personal foundation has always shaped how the movement operates - with empathy, inclusivity, and mental health at its core rather than as an afterthought.
Run Talk Run is now powered by the incredible organisation that is Sport in Mind, and remains free to attend for every runner, everywhere. For me, this project represents what happens when you build something rooted in lived experience. It resonates, grows, and genuinely changes lives.
What Comes Next
A CIC I founded to support women rebuilding after domestic abuse - providing peer community, grants, and scalable support.
What Comes Next is a CIC I founded after recognising a gap in support for women who have left an abusive relationship. After crisis support ends, when the immediate danger has passed, a woman is left to her own devices to work out how to rebuild her life.
The community platform provides a safe, carefully held online peer support community for women who have experienced domestic abuse, alongside grants to give women the tangible tools they need for their next chapter - whether that's access to therapy, a creative course, or simply something that helps them rediscover who they are. Every resource is designed around the princple that women should get to decide what comes next on their own terms.
What Comes Next also works to build partnerships with organisations that can open doors for survivors - race organisers, therapy providers, course creators, and business mentors - creating scalable pathways of support that extend well beyond the crisis period.
This project is personal. "What Comes Next" is tattooed on my arm as a reminder of my own journey out of an abusive relationship and a life I couldn't have imagined at my lowest point. That lived experience sits at the heart of everything the community does.
What Comes Next is still growing, but the mission is clear - no woman should have to figure out the rebuild alone.