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Robyn Edney's Fundraising Page

Hey everyone! As you may know I'm running the Royal Parks Half Marathon this year in London! This is my first outing as a runner and is a real challenge for me- but I'm not only running to achieve a huge personal goal- I'd like to raise some money for Wellbeing of Women.

WOW are a charity that raises money to improve women's health by:

• funding medical research to develop better treatments for gynaecological and reproductive health issues (such as cancer, miscarriage and endometriosis) 
• supporting specialist training for doctors in the field of Obs and Gynae
• providing education to women for them to stay well and to inform them about reproductive and gynaecological health. 

In 2006 my Grandmother died from complications resulting from ovarian cancer, and so I have taken a particular interest in this charity and the work that they do. I think that with more research, and better education of both doctors and women, deaths such as my Grandmother's could be prevented in the future. 

• 17 babies a day die in the UK at or near birth
• 140 women a week die in the UK from gynaecological cancers
• 1 fifth of all pregnancies in the UK end in miscarriage
• 2 million women suffer the pain of endometriosis

Through Virgin Money Giving, you can sponsor me (even if it is just 50p) and donations will be quickly processed and passed to charities. Virgin Money Giving is a not for profit organisation and will claim gift aid on a charity's behalf where the donor is eligible for this.

I really appreciate all your support and thank you for any donations.

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