In 2007, Gill had attended several medical appointments with Jon Herron, a family friend who had been originally diagnosed with melanoma back in 2002.  When it became apparent that Jon was not going to survive the disease, Gill started to do some fundraising and awareness of melanoma.  In 2012, after many years of volunteering and fundraising she decided that it was time to take the organisation out into the world, and Melanoma UK was born.  Gill is very much a people person and is very often one of the  first people  that patients and carers will speak to when they first make contact.