Team c2c is taking on the challenge in aid of The Railway Children. The Railway Children provide protection and opportunity for children with nowhere else to go and nobody to turn to. Every year thousands of children across the UK, India and East Africa run away or are forced to leave homes that have become unbearable through poverty, abuse, violence and neglect. Reaching a child as soon as possible is crucial to getting to children on the streets before an abuser can, and before they become entrenched in street life. We race to get to children before the streets get to them. 

A few examples of what The Railway Children can do with your kind donations:

• £1,080.00 would pay for the food, educational materials, toiletries and equipment at one of the charity's shelters in India for a month, which would help up to 25 children every day. These children have nowhere safe to sleep and face constant risks of violence, abuse and exploitation – these shelters take them away from this harm and keep them from danger.

• £500.00 would fund 25 hours of one-to-one counselling and therapy for a troubled young person in the UK. Children are referred to the charity by The British Transport Police when they are seen as being at risk and Railway Children works with them and their families to make sure they don’t put themselves in danger again.

• £340.00 would pay for a mobile classroom that visits hard-to-reach communities in India where children survive in poverty and have little or no chance of attending school. This is often their only chance of any form of education.

The initial fundraising target is £2,000. With a team made up of Ultra Marathon runners, as well as cyclists and fitness fanatics, leader c2c MD Rob Mullen is confident they'll rise to the occasion.