Hi I'm Jon, enjoy running and live on the lovely Wirral peninsula. My Brother Aron and I are running in Paul Lavelle Foundation's Love 2 Run Wirral Marathon on the 10th May 2026. We hope to run it together and try to raise as much money as we can for the the amazing Paul Lavelle Foundation to help enable them to keep up the great work they do supporting as many people as they can.

I first heard about the charity when I was invited by friends to go and run in the PLF's coached Tuesday evening running track sessions at the Oval, Bebington (18:30 to 19:30 for only £5). I think that the work they do is so important, I really want more people to hear about them and the services they offer so that it may help someone reading this currently suffering or their friends and family.

There is a lot of useful important information on their website, but here is a brief overview of how they started, what they are about and what it is they offer:

After the devastating loss of Paul Lavelle in a domestic abuse incident in 2017. Friends and family of Paul came together to create The Paul Lavelle Foundation to raise awareness of male domestic abuse, support male victims and survivors and provide healthy relationship education as a preventative measure.

Campaigning, sharing Paul Lavelle’s tragic death, has been a key feature of our Foundation’s initial work, highlighting and raising awareness that domestic abuse happens to males as well as females.

We support males who are experiencing domestic abuse in Merseyside and Cheshire. We are the only dedicated support service for males in the region.