Kate O’Callaghan
Community champion
Kate O’Callaghan
Mountain biker and ambassador for Wonderful Wild Women
As an ambassador for Wonderful Wild Women, Kate promotes outdoor adventures for women. She was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma in 2016 and credits being able to escape to the hills on her bike as crucial to her recovery. She helped create a 36-hour relay challenge to raise money for cancer research. She is an ambassador for Rider Resilience, a CIC promoting stories of resilience to encourage anyone facing adversity to cycle.
“Mountain biking has seen me through some of the hardest times of my life: after losing my mother, a friend and I cycled 550km across Scotland off road to raise money.”