MUM Wendy Wilson will be joined by two friends for a series of challenges to raise money for the charity which helped her daughter, who has a rare genetic disorder.

Team JimJam, which consists of Wendy and fellow mums Carol McEvoy and Jo Titheradge, want to thank the James Hopkins Trust for supporting four-year-old Imogen, who is blind and partially deaf and has osteopetrosis, which affects just one in 250,000 people.

Literally translated as 'stone bone', the disease causes bones to become denser over time, rather than hollower as is usually the case, causing difficulties in walking among other things.

Imogen, who lives with her parents in Winstone near Cirencester, has needed two bone marrow transplants, the first of which was provided by her father.

The second, although successful, meant that she had to stay in isolation in hospital for four months. Throughout this, Gloucester-based charity the James Hopkins Trust has provided many types of support including respite care.

“James Hopkins has been amazing,” Mrs Wilson said. “They give me four hours of respite care a week and it allows me to get out and see the sun.”

Now, Wendy wants to raise money for the charity that has helped her and Imogen so much, and so Team JimJam – which is Imogen's nickname – are taking on running challenges to inspire donations.

The three women only started running in September but have already booked themselves onto the Shakespeare, Tewkesbury and Bristol half marathons.

And that may just be the start. “We started running last September. I’m no good but I don’t mind, I’m already lapping somebody sitting on the couch,” she said.

“We joined Run Somewhere Else in Cirencester last year after trying the park run and they’ve been amazing.

"I did the Bourton 10k recently and came last but it didn’t matter, all the members cheered as much for me as they did for everyone else.”

The mums have raised £225 so far through a Just Giving donations page, and urge more people to sponsor them by visiting justgiving.com/teamjimjam2015.

For more on the James Hopkins Trust, which helps terminally ill and severely disabled children under the age of five, go to jameshop.kinstrust.org.uk