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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Danny and Paul are rolling back the years in an effort to rediscover the fitness levels that they once possessed serving in the Royal Air Force.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are running the London Marathon for the Prison Advice & Care Trust (<strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">pact</strong>) on 22nd April 2012.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;">Our stretch goal is to beat Paula Radcliffe...our realistic goal is to finish within four hours (and hopefully a bit quicker).</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;">We are aiming to raise a minimum of £3,000 for <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">pact</strong>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With the prison population now at its highest level recorded, it is estimated that 200,000 children in the United Kingdom are affected by parental imprisonment each year. It is even more alarming that a greater number of children are affected by parental imprisonment than by divorce. <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">pact</strong> supports the ‘hidden victims’ of imprisonment by providing practical and emotional support to prisoners' children and families, and also to prisoners and ex-prisoners themselves. <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">pact</strong> is also delivering a parenting course to certain prisons in the UK with the aim of encouraging imprisoned parents to maintain contact with their children and to encourage them to spend quality time with their children during visits.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">pact</strong> has been working in the Visitor's Centres of various prisons in England and Wales for some years; staff provide advice and support to prisoners'<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>families who often have nowhere else to turn. Play workers provided by <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">pact</strong> have also worked tirelessly in prison play areas to help ease the trauma and anxiety some children can feel when visiting a relative in prison.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;">Your support will enable <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">pact</strong> to carry on making a real difference to families who desperately want to leave crime behind and build a better future for their children, themselves and the communities we all live in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can read more about the outstanding work that <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">pact</strong> provides at </span><a href="http://www.prisonadvice.org.uk/"><span style="font-size: small; color: #800080; font-family: Calibri;">www.prisonadvice.org.uk</span></a><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;">.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Donating through JustGiving is simple, fast and totally secure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your details are safe with JustGiving – they’ll never sell them on or send unwanted emails.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once you donate, they’ll send your money directly to the charity and make sure Gift Aid is reclaimed on every eligible donation by a UK taxpayer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;"><strong>pact</strong> is a registered charity number 219278</span></p>