I am participating in the Great Scottish Run in Glasgow on September 6th 2009. This is a multi-fold exercise, primarily to help raise funds for CEFET, a registered charity, which has helped grassroot groups and small charities across theEast Midlands get an extra £28 million of European funding over the last 7 years. Secondly, this race is a personal challenge, as I last completed the same event in 2006 (for a different charity) and have (despite doing all the healthy things) gained some weight since then. On 1st January I weighed in at 17.5 stones, most of which could be easily attributed to medication I take for having a diagnosis of Bi-Polar. So, my motivation is a personal one - to lose some weight and get fitter. My goal is to raise as much money as possible for CEFET, which in 2004 and 2005 provided funding via the Catalyst Fund to enable A.I.M. (my self-help group) to stage World Mental Health Day events, which were very successful in taking mental health issues to the public in a participatory way.

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