Thanks for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page. I know I have asked for sponsorship before, but that was last year. I promise not to come scrounging more than once a year.

This year I'm running the Edinburgh Marathon Festival 10K on 24 May 2014, in aid of the Sick Kids Friends Foundation.

The Sick Kids does great work, as I'm sure you know, and they really do need all the funds they can get to continue to do that great work. I know I was there as a child, and I've had to take my wee one there in the past.

With any luck we don't need to go again too often, but if we do, I'd like to think they have all the equipment and facilities they need to give my children the care they need.

I'm not looking for you to donate much, a couple of pounds or whatever you can afford. I'll run ten thousand metres, you just click on the link and donate a few hundred pence.

My target is £150, so please help me reach that. Cheers!

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