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The Many Minds running team; Viki, Katie, Maz, Olivia, Anabel, Laura and Katherine will all be pounding the pavements to raise valuble funds for new Bristol based charity Many Minds. We all have different running abilities and fitness levels but will be coming together for a common cause.

Many Minds is a small mental health and performance charity that work with people to engage with their creativity, improve confidence, self-esteem and build social skills and networks. They run workshops in theatre making skills to devise and create high quality contemporary performance. They work in schools, mental health units and other community settings as well as alongside arts and corporate institutions to increase understanding and reduce stigma of mental illness.

They set up last November in response to a growing need for this work. Despite mental health being more on people's radar, the stats and facts still show there's a lot of work to be done:

• 16 Million people in the UK experience mental illness and only 6% of health research spending goes on mental health
• Suicide is stil the biggest killer of young people in the UK
• 75% of young people with a mental health problem don't receive treatment
• More than half link mental illness to loneliness and isolation and think they will lose friends
• More than half are embarrassed about their mental illness
• Mental health service continue to experience cuts

But YOU can help. Many Minds is a small charity and your money will go a long way to helping them work with more people to help improve their lives and making a real difference to communities we live in. Watch their impact video on their website to find out what your money can do. www.many-minds.org