"Year of Madness" reaches over £8,000 in sponsorship

The Year of Madness involves Eddie Whittle and John McDonough taking part in 12 challenges including swimming, running, cycling, hiking and canoing between October 2011 and September 2012.

The 12 challenges are raising money for MacMillan Cancer Support, Action Medical Research, Cardiac Risk in the Young and The British Heart Foundation. Eddie and John are planning on raising £12,000 shared evenly between the four charities and are well on their way having raised £8,184 to date.

You can follow their progress on their website - http://www.madness4charity.co.uk/ - and on Twitter (@yearofmadness).

We wish Eddie and John all the success in their great effort.