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This year, I am running the Great North Run in aid of the Tynemouth Volunteer Life Brigade.

The Tynemouth Volunteer Life Brigade is a voluntary; shore based, coastal rescue service, founded in 1864. They are a Declared Facility to HM Coastguard for Rope Rescue, Coastal Search and Rescue and one of the last remaining trained teams for Ship to Shore Breeches Buoy Rescue. Operating from the famous Watch House Museum in Tynemouth, on the North East coast of England, they work closely with all emergency services; including the local RNLI, both Lifeboat and Lifeguards (and to which they have no affiliation or connection apart from being a declared facility like TVLB). In recent years the Brigade has averaged over 120 callouts per year, with 76 to date in 2017 - these range from monitoring and gathering information on broken down boats, to recovering cliff casualties from our coastline.

This is a charity that is very close to my heart, having worked alongside TVLB for multiple rescues, first aid's and incidents over the duration of the seven years that I have operated as an RNLI Beach Lifeguard in North Tyneside.

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For further information on the TVLB, or to make a donation, please visit: http://www.tvlb.org