I have been given the wonderful opportunity of running the London Marathon for The Mulberry Bush School, based in Standlake, Oxfordshire. I feel incredibly fortunate that I was raised in a stable and loving home and hope to provide the same environment for my own two daughters. However, there are some children who are far less fortunate. The Mulberry Bush works with some of the most distressed and vulnerable primary school aged children in the country. These children have experienced emotional, physical and sexual abuse and have already been excluded from several schools and have been disrupting the community in which they live for a long time. They appear to be out of control and impossible to teach but, given their very difficult home circumstances, it is surprising that they have managed to cope for so long. The children will often have been neglected, abused, witnessed things which no child should have to, assumed excessive responsibility and, in all probability, never experienced a stable loving home.

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