<p>Every 22 minutes a child in Britain is bereaved of a parent; this equates to 24,000 new children each year learning to live with a powerful range of confusing and conflicting emotions. Bottled up, these emotions can have damaging consequences in later life for the individual, their family and society as a whole. I have never run more than a half marathon distance and am running this marathon to raise money to support this amazing charity. At the age of 17, I lost a dear friend and this marathon is in honour of him.</p>