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I'd like to raise £150 for Yorkshire Wildlife Park by running the distance of a marathon (26.2 miles / 42.2km) from 22nd June - 21st July 2020. 

Anyone who knows me or my daughter Niamh, will know how important the animal world is to us and one of our many worries in recent months has been the destiny of all of the animals in zoos and wildlife parks across the UK. We have watched in sadness and fear as some of the largest and most well known zoos in the country that have spent decades conserving some of the most endangered species have talked about having to close their gates for good! In some particularly desperate cases they have even had to contemplate euthanizing the animals because they can't afford to feed them! Can you even imagine dedicating your life to saving something to then have to consider ending its life so that it doesn't starve to death?  

Thankfully, on the 15th June 2020, the zoos and wildlife parks were again allowed to open, providing they had sufficient social distancing measures in place. They are on a very slow road to recovery with some zoos still closing permanently in recent days. Last week as many people bizarrely queued for hours to stock up on cheap socks and T-shirts, Niamh and I headed to one of our favourite places - Yorkshire Wildlife Park in Doncaster to lend them our support. 

So it is this extremely worthy cause that with your help I'd like to raise a few pennies for......

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