As you all know, I've spent the last year and a half getting quite into running. I'm still really slow, and don't do long distances very often - so I'm challenging myself to run the Royal Parks Half Marathon on behalf of Helping Hounds Hampshire.

Helping Hounds is super close to my heart - I'm on the core team and support with volunteering at kennels, often running their social media and organising most of our events over the summer so we can get our name out there.

My lovely dog Rolo also came from helping hounds, and I've made some wonderful friends there.

We are a charity run entirely by volunteers, and dog rescues are in a dire situation at the moment with people returning dogs to us now more than ever.

We could do with any support we can do please think about donating your hard earned pennies, I would be so grateful and I know the dogs would be even more so 💖