As many of you know, Kat, Sam, Stirling and Jamie are attempting to run 250km across the Saharan Desert this April in the infamous Marathon des Sables a 6 day stage race. As if 6 Marathons in 6 days wasn’t enough we have to be entirely self sufficient, all we will be provided with is a cover over our heads and rationed water. The blisters, sun burn and risk of kidney failure will add to the challenge. After a winter of cold and miserable training (slightly nicer for Stirling down under!) we are kicking off our fundraising campaign and hope you can support us.

We're supporting three amazing charities and hope our sweat can inspire you to support them, the first of which is Challenged Athletes Foundation (CAF)

Having all been fortunate to have experienced life changing moments through Sport, we wanted to use this sporting endeavour to give similar opportunities to those less fortunate. We are raising money for the Challenged Athletes Foundation - an incredible group that has supported 18,000 challenged athletes in over 40 countries supporting 97 different sports.

See some of their incredible work here:

We have all been touched by mental illness in our lives and acutely aware of its stigma and terrible consequences. We have chosen to support two mental health charities working both in the UK and Australia - Mind and Black Dog Institute.

Mind campaign to improve services, raise awareness and promote understanding of mental illness. They also provide advice and support to empower anyone experiencing a mental health problem. The Black Dog Institute has taken a different approach and is dedicated to understanding, preventing and treating mental illness through scientific research.

Being a headstrong group of people we have set an ambitious target of £20,000 to raise. Note the trip itself is entirely self-funded for each of us - so every pound, penny and dollar will go to the causes listed here.

Please dig deep - we'll have to in a couple of weeks!!!