I'll be running the 2018 London Marathon to raise funds for REDRESS (www.redress.org). They are a fantastic organisation that works with torture survivors to restore their dignity and to make torturers accountable for their crimes.

I'm running 26.2miles / 42.195km and I aim to raise £1,500 to support their important work. That's £35 per kilometer / £57 per mile. Please help me reach this goal - I and the torture survivors I am running for will be immensely grateful for it.

A bit more about REDRESS. Direct work with survivors of torture is at the heart of what they do. This includes helping torture victims get reparations for their suffering as well as advocating for systematic change to rid the world of torture. A lot of their work is at the grassroots level, with victims’ associations and human rights groups for example, but they also work with lawyers' associations and even government ministries responsible for protecting, assisting and responding to torture and related crimes. Through this they help build capacity, provide advice and direct assistance to local groups to enhance their interventions with survivors, and strengthen their partners' advocacy work on legal or institutional reforms and the overall goal of preventing torture.

If you’d like to know more, head over to their website: www.redress.org. But before doing that, please donate to support their work!

PS for those of you interested: I'm not aiming for a particularly fast time, but my playlist is two hours three minutes and I hate to listen to songs twice when I'm running.