"The Big House is a place where people who may have given up on themselves gain the skills and confidence to turn their lives around."

On the 10th of May I'll be running the Hackney Half Marathon for The Big House: http://thebighouse.uk.com/. The decision to sign up to the race might have been ill-advised (it turns out you have to do eleven mile runs every Saturday, even if you did drink two bottles of wine on Friday night) but the choice to support The Big House was a total no-brainer. They do incredible work with some of our society's most vulnerable people, turning the voices and stories of young care leavers into electric devised performances while helping to develop the skills and self-belief to empower them in their own lives.

I have on more than one occasion been moved to genuine blubbing by the stories of Big House members and the love they feel for the project and the theatre they create is important, so if you don't want to sponsor my valiant efforts then give them a cheeky like or follow and be sure to get yourself to a show. If you do want to sponsor my valiant efforts, fifty quid would be ace and fifty pence also is brilliant. 

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