Thomas launched the Row4Cancer campaign in 2010. He created this initiative to raise awareness that there is ``life beyond cancer``. As part of a British and Irish team he set out to break the World Record for rowing across the Atlantic Ocean.
Thomas spent a gruelling 34 days at sea, smashing the mid-Atlantic world record by 10 hours. Funds raised during the initiative were donated to Puttinu Cares, a children’s cancer charity.