Many of you reading this will know that, as much as we’ve tried to convince ourselves otherwise, Paula Radcliffe has nothing to worry about just yet.  However, this weekend we will be attempting to run our furthest distance yet amongst Singapore's jungle trails in an 18km night race to raise money for what we’re sure you will agree is an incredibly worthy cause.

Wilber Squires is the 2½ year old nephew of a great friend of ours in Singapore and was recently diagnosed with Wilms’ tumours, a form of renal cancer that affects children up to the age of 5.  He is under the care of an inspiring team at Great Ormond Street Hospital who are hopeful that he will make a full recovery, in spite of the added complication of him having tumours on both kidneys, through a combination of intense chemotherapy and surgery. 

All of the money we raise via this page will be donated to a Great Ormond Street/UCL Institute of Child Health research programme for infantile kidney cancer that is striving to improve the early detection methods for the disease so that children like Wilber can be treated with less toxic drug regimens, more effectively and for a shorter time.  The treatment programmes and detection methods currently used have not been updated in the past decade due to chronic underfunding.

Whilst 18km may not be much of a challenge to the triathletes and ironmen out there, we’ll be donning our headlamps on Saturday evening with great trepidation in the hope that we make it round before sunrise. All we need you to do to help us consider our efforts worthwhile is make a donation via this page.  We are extremely thankful in advance!

If you would like more information on Wilber and the great team supporting him, please visit - http://www.justgiving.com/Fiona-Squires-and-Camilla-Curtis