Thank you for visiting my fundraising page. Please dig deep and sponsor me online.

The Run:- Everyday this week I'll post up a new MattyCast of how I'm getting on. Click on the links below to listen:

* Monday - setting myself the challenge, and getting ready

* Tuesday - The nerves start to kick in, as does the pain

* Wednesday - A crisis of confidence strikes, plus my training schedule is changed.

* Thursday - The run itself!

* Friday - Ow, it hurts...

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Fairbridge Southampton:- Since the run I have been finding out more about what Fairbridge will be doing with the money we have raised. Below are some recordings I made when I visited the Southampton branch...

* "Jane's" story - How one young person was helped by Fairbridge in Southampton.

* more to follow soon.... please check back tomorrow...

 - - -> And a huge thanks to everybody who turned out the the Southampton Fairbridge Fundraiser we held the other day. The evening party and tombola was a fantastic sucess and raised over £100. You all rock, thanks so much!

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Biog:- I'm raising money for the charity Fairbridge. We take for granted how lucky we are to have friends and family around us who will be there the share sucesses, and help us when we don't suceed. Not everybody is that fortunate.

Fairbrige is a UK charity that has a base really near to where I live in Southampton. They work with some of the most disadvantaged kids in citys across the country, who have maybe been excluded from schools, can't get jobs, or even been involved in drugs and crime.

The charity uses activities and challenges to help these young guys and girls develop the personal and social skills that they need to help them pick themselves up again - and here's where you come in.

I want to raise money for them, and so I am undertaking my own personal challenge...

I'm not the fittest man around, infact that last time I was involved in an organised public run was a Blue Peter Fun Run when I was 13! My challenge is to train up and run a 5km curcuit around Southampton Common. This is a huge challenge for me both physically and mentally, but I am determined to do as well as I possibly can.

So please click on the >Donate Now< button an sponsor me per Kilometre for my run. If I can get 100 people to sponsor me £1 per km, we could raise £500 in no time... and it's money that will be put to excellent use in our community.

Donating through this site is simple, fast and totally secure. It is also the most efficient way to sponsor me: Fairbridge will receive your money faster and, if you are a UK taxpayer, an extra 28% in tax will be added to your gift at no cost to you.

So please sponsor me now!

Many thanks for your support.