HEALTHCARE company workers will be walking this year’s Race for Life so they can complete the challenge together.

Kim Bartholomew, Georgina Prior and Carole Lawrence-Parr of Harmoni for Health in Poundbury hope to raise £100 for Cancer Research UK by taking part in the UK’s biggest women-only charity fundraising event.

The team will be wearing matching baby pink-coloured T-shirts when they stride out in the afternoon Race for Life event at Kingston Maurward, Dorchester on Sunday.

Kim, 28, who is a personal assistant to directors at the company, said: “We just thought it would be nice to raise some money for charity, as we’re a healthcare company.

“I’ve done the Race for Life before and I found it good fun to be honest.

“It’s just nice to go together with everybody and do something for charity and the workout beforehand is good fun.

“It’s a nice atmosphere and we’re going to walk it this year because if we walk it we can all do it together as a team, whereas if we run it we’d all be separate.”

She added: “I know male members of my family who have had cancer, this is a really good cause.”

Georgina Prior, 21, of Underhill, Portland will be taking part for a third year in memory of a loved one.

She said: “I took part in 2004 and 2005, always at Kingston Maurward, I really like it.

“I’m doing it mainly for my nan Rose Kiff, she had cancer and passed away a few years ago.

“I’m going to write a nice message to her on my t-shirt.

“It’s always a lovely event, the warm-up is really good and very motivational.

“I ran it in 2004 and that was hard work but it’s always been enjoyable.

“The setting is a very pretty place, running around a lake and the countryside.”