FOUR generations of one family are joining forces to take part in a 5km charity event.

Margaret Moore, 49, is helping to organise the Middlesbrough Race for Life to raise money for Cancer Research UK and decided to take part herself.

Her mother, Mary Spearman, 75, immediately said she would like to take part, then, when Ms Moore, a health education worker with Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council, heard that her four-year-old grandaughter, Jessica, had recently walked Roseberry Topping, near Guisborough, she decided to invite her and her daughter, Katie Adamson, 22, to take part as well.

The quartet are teaming up to raise money for one of Ms Moore's colleagues, who was recently diagnosed with breast cancer.

Ms Moore, from Stainton, Middlesbrough, said: "I helped organise the event last year as part of my job and I thought it was a fantastic idea, but I couldn't take part because I had booked a holiday for the same time.

"But this year I was determined to do it. And as it happens I have a more personal reason.

"A very dear friend of mine has been diagnosed with breast cancer and that has made me, and some other friends at work, desperate to raise as much money as possible for Cancer Research."

Of their decision to walk the Race for Life, Ms Moore said: "For us it's not about speed, but taking part.

"I'm very pleased my grandaughter is doing it - it gives me an excuse for not jogging.