I am running the Great North Run on the 10th of September with Joe Karran in memory of his mum.

This is a message from Joe:

"The charity was set up after my mum died after a long fight with breast cancer in 2011 to help causes that were important to mum, which primarily involves helping women in chemical engineering and STEM more broadly. This has included a scholarship for women with low social and economic status studying chemical engineering at Newcastle University (which is where my mum studied). As well as Kids Action Thru Science (KATS), an outreach programme to encourage pre-GCSE girls to think about studying STEM at a higher level.

We have also partnered with St Andrews University in a project called Cell-Block Science, which involves researchers from the university going into prisons and teaching the inmates about different topics in science in which the researchers are specialists. The Fiona Foundation specially funds the Beyond The Walls part of this project which funds prisoners’ family members to come into the prison so the prisoner can teach them what they have learnt in each class. This is beneficial for both prisoner and family and there are lots of studies showing the benefits of education in prison for both offenders and their family. This project has been piloted in male prisons in previous years, and we have helped to initiate the project so that we can support it specifically as it progresses to women's prisons in the near future."

Thank you for donating to this great cause.