An agricultural engineer from Suffolk is embarking on a 1,000-mile drive from Land’s End to John o’Groats in a 1952 Nuffield tractor to raise money for the Teenage Cancer Trust.

Olly Rofix – who fought and won his own battle against cancer – sets off on his adventure today (5 September) from the southern tip of Cornwall. 

Along the way he plans to complete the Three Peaks Challenge and hopes to be at the top of Mount Snowdon on 9 September – 10 years to the day that he was diagnosed with a rare form of leukaemia.

After more than two weeks on the road, he hopes to pull into John o’Groats on 20 September.

The 1,000-mile tractor challenge is one of a number of adventures Mr Rofix has undertaken for charity.

In 2011 he circumnavigated the UK in an 18ft sailing boat that he restored himself.

The journey took seven months and he raised an impressive £20,000 for the Anthony Nolan Trust.

Two years later he towed the boat to every teenage cancer ward in the country.

He pulled it using the same Nuffield tractor he will be driving in this year’s challenge, which he restored from a non-running wreck.

Olly works for Suffolk-based John Deere dealer P Tuckwell.

Find out more about Oliver’s 1,000-mile classic tractor drive in aid of the Teenage Cancer Trust challenge and follow his progress.