A MUM has taken on the challenge of getting other parents to push prams for charity.

Natalie Kershaw is organising a group stroll to raise money for the Weldmar Hospicecare Trust, which treats and supports seriously ill people in Dorset.

Families are invited to get involved in the Push For Life social event, which will involve a six-kilometre walk with pushchairs.

It is taking place this Sunday at 10am from Weymouth Pavilion, along the Esplanade to the Oasis Café and back again.

Natalie, of Chickerell, has been supporting fundraising events organised by Team Summers, who ran the London Marathon for the second consecutive year in aid of Weldmar and she wanted to do something personally.

The mum-of-one said: “I’ve always supported the Summers family in their fundraising and I’ve lost members of my own family to cancer.

“Two of my aunties and my nan have died of cancer so I just think it’s an important cause.

“It’s the first fundraiser I’ve organised and I’ve got about nine people taking part so far.

“I’ve put posters up in Chickerell school and at a few of the nurseries.

“It’s the more the merrier really, the more money we can raise the better.”

Also taking part in the event is Natalie’s mother-in law, Pat Kershaw, who is doing the walk in memory of Phil Bell, a friend who died in March this year aged 89 from skin cancer, prostate cancer and other complications. She said: “Phil and his wife Dorothy were like a big brother and sister to me; we were very close and I’d do anything for them.

“Weldmar were very good to him and came into the hospital offering and organising support for Dorothy.

“They organised a hospital bed for him and really were very good.

“The more they’re in the public eye the better.”

All are welcome to take part in the social fundraiser.

The registration fee is £10 per family – contact the fundraising department at Joseph Weld Hospice on 01305 215315 for registration and sponsorship forms or visit weld-hospice.org.uk