Runners put their best foot forward for young people

FIVE runners will represent the Archbishop of York Youth Trust which helps young people make a difference by volunteering at home and abroad in the Great North Run on Sunday.

By The Newsroom

Published 6th Sep 2016, 17:25 BST

Updated 9th Sep 2016, 11:14 BST

Director of the trust Dan Finn will be joined by friends and relatives Abigail Miklasz, 26, Paul Finn, 67, Gav Loftus, 34, and Chris Marsh, 40, in support of the Young Leaders award for schools and Cry in the Dark, a Christian project in Romania.

As part of the award, students from Manor CE Academy, in York, and Holy Trinity, in Barnsley, chose to volunteer with the charity in Romania and helped to run day-care activities at a hospice and also worked at a residential home for vulnerable adults with special needs.

Dan Finn: “It’s great to be running in support of these two charities and celebrating the partnership working that has enabled many young people from the north of England to volunteer with Cry in the Dark through the Young Leaders Award. All funds raised will help to support both the work of the Youth Trust’s Young Leaders Award and Cry in the Dark’s Hospice programme,”

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