For many people a 5.6km run is hardly a challenge. It is however, a challenge for us! We hope you'll cheer us on and help support an amazing and important womens' charity in it's 40th anniversary year. With thanks, Alison, Wendy, Nicolas and Ebele.

Clean Break was set up in 1979 by two women prisoners who believed theatre could bring the hidden stories of imprisoned women to a wider audience. Through theatre and tailored support, Clean Break builds women's resilience, skills and creativity and gives them a voice. Through a unique repertoire of new plays and theatre-based creative learning, Clean Break raises difficult questions, inspires debate and helps to effect profound and positive change in the lives of women with experience of the criminal justice system.

• In the UK around 12,000 women are imprisoned each year
• Over half the women in prison report having suffered domestic violence with 53% reporting having experienced emotional, physical or sexual abuse as a child
• Independent research estimates that just 5% of women completing a Clean Break course reoffend, compared with the national average of 46%

"Clean Break has changed my life; there's no two ways about that. It has given my life direction, purpose and reason."  Clean Break member