INSPIRATIONAL teacher Ben Parker is set to take on a marathon wheelchair journey that will take him from Lowestoft to Lands End.

Passmores Academy maths teacher, Ben is due to start his journey on July 27th in Lowestoft, Suffolk, ending it at Land’s End, Cornwall. 

Ben, 48, from Saffron Walden, was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2009 while working as a bus driver. He started using a wheelchair in 2023.

The condition, which involves the immune system attacking cells in the brain and the spinal cord, affects how people move, think and feel.

Mr Parker, who had struggled with his mobility for a few years, said: “After having accepted that my legs were at a point that a wheelchair was needed for me to get around the world, I was given a new lease of life.

“I have never felt so free and so very alive, even though my body is still slowly failing me.”

He will be accompanied by friends on bikes during the journey, which will take two weeks to complete.

Mr Parker said he had decided to take on the challenge to prove to himself that he still “has something about” him while raising money for charity.

He is supporting Andy’s Man Club, a suicide prevention charity, and Harlow-based charity No Child Without.

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