Thanks for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page.

For UK donors

Medical Detection Dogs (MDD) is a SUPERB charity that does crusading early intervention work and research using highly trained dogs to sniff out diseases, including prostate cancer and diabetes. Its recent advances (MDD is backed by several leading doctors and scientists) have already helped many, not only by detecting diseases but by providing dogs to act as companions to patients with specific health problems. My sister, Betsy, is actively involved with MDD and, having attended an open day at the charity, I can vouch that the work they are doing is life transforming.

For American and Mexican donors

I'm donning a dog suit (not a clown one!) partly because of MDD and partly as it's a good excuse for running slowly! But also because I recently walked 1000 miles with a street dog called Pancho along the US/Mexico border. The children's book I wrote, Pancho's Song, is published in America (by the El Paso Community Foundation) and raising money for Mexican charities in the border town of Ciudad Juarez, including a homeless shelter (Vision in Action), an emergency ambulance service (Cruz Verde) and a youth charity (Fundacion Comunitaria de la Frontera Norte).

As the marathon is in New York, for any Americans or Mexicans who want to support more local causes it is possible to buy the book on amazon.com or kindle - and all books bought online go directly to helping Juarez charities. 

All donations made on this Just Giving page, however, are purely for the wonderful Medical Detection Dogs.