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The Westgrove Group, a facilities management company based in Warrington has pledged its support as a founding patron for a second year to provide generous financial assistance which will enable the charity to support people facing challenging life circumstances. Claire Mckinley-Smith, Managing D...

In the summer of 2021, trainee GP Emma set out to walk all 600km of the Slovenian Mountain Trail. Over an eye-watering 37,000 metres ascent, she braved crazy weather, unclear paths and unexpected detours. However, this incredibly tough solo journey was in truth only a small part of what pushes E...

After a Christmas riddled with Covid and a winter locked inside, I’d had enough: I needed a challenge. As someone who thrives on adventure and diversity, these lockdowns and restrictions were really starting to effect my mental wellbeing and motivation to do anything. So one day at work I mes...

Dan is a mental health activist, keynote speaker, and adventurer on a mission to empower people to speak up when they're suffering. In 2017, after a five-year battle with bipolar disorder and a full-scale manic episode in Italy in 2012, Dan ran 1,250 miles in 65 days solo and self-supported from...

“WHY? WHY ON EARTH ARE YOU RUNNING 100KM?” - MY MUM. It’s a fair question to ask: why would I decide to run 100km in 24 hours? Well, there are a few reasons, with the main reason being that I wanted to do some fundraising along with raising some awareness around how mental health is linked to ou...

PART 1 – RUN RABBIT RUN  On a particularly grey and wet evening, on yet another January lockdown night playing online chess, I was wondering when life will ever get back to normal again — an idea was forming. The idea was quite simply to run a marathon everyday for a month. I’ve run this distan...