Firstly may i thank you for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page and secondly can i thank everyone who has donated up to now, your generosity is amazing.

As most of you are aware i've been making an effort to lose weight for the past 15 months. At this present moment i've lost 6 stones something i never thought possible and it's given me a new outlook on life. This has prompted me to get involved in trying to raise some needed monies for a worthy cause, hence i have now ran in the Beaverbrooks Blackpool 10k on May 13th and BUPA Great Manchester 10k on May 20th, yes 2 10k's in a week! I have extended my Just Giving page to beyond the run dates and will continue to try and raise funds in aid of AMMF, The Cholangiocarcinoma Charity, also in the memory of Kelly Eastwood.

Now i never got to meet Kelly, so can't start to say what sort of person she was, but my wife, daughter and myself are very good friends of Kelly's aunty and uncle Linda and Tommy Guy, and if she is anything like these two then she must of been a fantastic person to know. Anyway i hope i can hit the target i have set myself and add some more money to the fantastic amount already raised in memory of Kelly.

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So please dig deep, help me keep motivated and donate now.