I've signed up to do the Great North Run for Hearing Dogs for the Deaf, after hearing all about what they do for people from someone who works there. They are fully reliant on donations to run the charity and keep going, so it needs people like myself to help fund them.

Barclays have kindly agreed to match any funding I do, pound for pound, so anything put through here will effectively be doubled.

As those who know me (and have played football/rugby with me over the years) I'm not a huge fan of running, so going from running a couple of miles to getting up to the 13 miles has been pretty tough, as has the recent heatwave! Any donations will be massively appreciated, and really help me keep going during these training runs.

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