Gary and Claire Pullan and their family have served Bury both on a local and national scale. After losing his first wife to breast cancer in 2012 and his son to a brain tumour in 2021, Gary has worked hard to make a positive difference in the medical community. He raised over £1,200 for The Christie through a fundraiser where he ran up 798 steps to the top of Beetham Tower. Both Gary and his wife worked as paramedics for the North West Ambulance Service through the Covid-19 pandemic, a challenging time to work in healthcare and emergency services.
However, Gary and Claire are not the only remarkable members of this family. After hearing his twin brother had a brain tumour, Alex Pullan decided to run a 5k every day that his brother had radiotherapy. He chose a 5k because it takes him roughly the same time to run 5km as his brother’s treatment. Both he and his twin loved to run so it was a way for Alex to stand by his brother, even when he couldn’t run. He fundraised raised over £13,000 for brain tumour research and he ran for 44 straight days, totalling a distance of over 360km.
The amazing accomplishments of this family rightly earned recognition from 10 Downing Street. James Daly MP states:
“I am proud to have such wonderful public servants represent Bury and welcome them to Downing Street. The work they have done is invaluable to our local community and the healthcare industry as a whole. These are the exact heroes that belong at this celebration.”
