Cats Protection is the UK’s leading feline welfare charity. Our vision is a world where every cat is treated with kindness and an understanding of its needs. Cats Protection has simple and clear objectives to help cats:Homing - Finding good homes for cats in needNeutering - Supporting and encouraging the neutering of catsInformation - Improving people’s understanding of cats and their care. Achieving this vision is only made possible due to kind cat lovers who support our work. Visit www.cats.org.uk for more information.

In 2003 my sister Marie got a kitten called Alfie from Warrington Cats Protection. In 2005 Marie, with her husband David and children Ellen, Joseph and Louise, emigrated to New Zealand. When they left Alfie came to live with us, he was our cat for 10 years before he died in 2015. Alfie was a good cat so I am running the Great North Run for Cats Protection in his memory.

I lived on Tyneside when I worked at Newcastle University 2014-15. Both years I ran the Great North Run for kitty cats.

I am also running to raise money for Sheffield Cats Shelter, see

https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/anthony-bell5