We are Findlay, Paddy, Euan and Tearlach. The four of us met during our bachelor's in Aberdeen and recently decided that running the Lisbon marathon was something we wanted to do to raise money for these amazing charities.

The first is the St Jerome's centre in Kenya. In 2009 a group of young adults from the UK travelled to Nakuru to volunteer in street child rehabilitation centres, orphanages and schools. During their stay, an orphanage where they were volunteering was forced to close. The lack of social support within Kenya meant the children would be forced to return to unsafe environments where violence, drug and alcohol abuse are commonplace, or to grandparents too frail and poor to properly care for them.

Worse still, they may have ended up on the street, some aged as young as six. The UK volunteers, still teenagers themselves, were so profoundly shocked they embarked on the extraordinary task of raising funds from family and friends to buy land and build the first St Jerome’s centre, which opened in 2012.

The second is charity is the My Name'5 doddie foundation.

Doddie Weir OBE is one of rugby’s most recognisable personalities. He earned 61 caps for Scotland during a successful playing career, represented the British and Irish Lions on their successful tour to South Africa in 1997, and won championships with his two club sides, Melrose and Newcastle Falcons.

A talented, committed and athletic lock forward, Doddie is now facing his biggest challenge. In June 2017 the Scot revealed he was suffering from Motor Neuron Disease. From the outset, Doddie has been driven to help fellow sufferers and seek ways to further research into this, as yet, incurable disease.