On 3 November Team Pullen are hitting the streets of New York for the NYC marathon, with the goals of completing the marathon and still be talking to each other at the end! Matt hits a special birthday milestone that weekend and it has always been his dream to celebrate by doing the NY marathon with Fern. Somehow Alison was persuaded to join too and Ellie will be there to cheer the three of us on! We have done the training (and the carb loading) and now we 'just' need to power through 26.2 miles.

Getting through those miles won't always be easy so we hope you will give us a virtual cheer along the way and, if you are able, consider donating to one of our chosen charities, Sarcoma UK and GiveOut. We have organised our places in the marathon via Sports Tours so any money raised goes directly to the charities and the vital work they each do.

On this page you can donate to GiveOut - a charity focused on supporting LGBTQI activism worldwide - which we are very proud to support.

Across the world, LGBTQI people face serious human rights abuses for being themselves. Courageous activists are doing vital work to defend their communities and campaign for equality, but they lack resources and funding is fragile.

GiveOut pool the donations received to provide grants to LGBTQI organisations, ensuring that they have more of the resources they need to defend our communities, tackle inequalities and campaign for lasting change.

Thank you for your support.

Alison, Matt, Fern & Ellie xx