Why I started this

I’m a medical student, but this project is about much more than medical school.

Somewhere along the way, I started thinking about how many things I would change if money wasn’t always part of the equation.

I’d finish medical school without the same financial pressure. I’d help my mum with the shoulder treatment she needs.

Those are personal goals, and I don’t want to disguise them as anything else. Together, they account for £75,000 of the full £1 million mission.

But I didn’t want this project to stop with me.

Medicine has shown me how dramatically circumstances can shape someone’s life — illness, disability, caring responsibilities, homelessness, abuse, lack of opportunity, or simply where someone happens to be born.

One pound on its own doesn’t change much. But multiplied hundreds of thousands of times, it could become treatment, medical education, essential supplies, maternal and newborn care, CPR and defibrillator access, clean water, hospice care, support for young carers, help for people escaping abuse, assistance dogs, disaster relief and animal welfare.

That’s where the idea became The 1 Million Project.

I’m keeping my identity private because I want the idea to stand on its own. I don’t want this to depend on what I look like, who I am, or how many followers I have.

But anonymity shouldn’t mean secrecy.

£75,000 of the Mission is personal and family-related. £900,000 is assigned to wider-purpose causes, with up to £25,000 budgeted for payment processing. I’ve deliberately made that balance visible.

And if this works, I want the journey to be visible — what came in, what was allocated, and evidence of where the money went.

I don’t know whether one million people will ever join.

But I’d like to find out what one million very small decisions could become.