page_title: Charlie Webster
section_title: Charity work
hierarchical_section_title: Charlie Webster / Personal life / Charity work
caption_attribution_description: English: Photo of Charlie Webster Taken on 2010 Mac 4x4
context_page_description: Charlotte Webster is an English television presenter and campaigner
context_section_description: In April 2009, Webster ran in the London Marathon raising money for the Bobby Moore Fund for Cancer Research UK. In April 2010, she ran the London Marathon again, raising money for the Women's Aid Federation of England.
  An ambassador for Women's Aid, on 15 January 2014 in interview with BBC Radio 5 Live's Phil Williams, she revealed that aged 15 she had been groomed and sexually abused by her running coach, choosing to waive her right to anonymity to go public with the revelations to "break the taboo about abuse as a whole". Webster stated:
  I got quite close to the running coach because you do. He abused my trust and abused the fact that I was an innocent person that maybe wanted his support, his compassion and his care as my running coach.
   The man was later sentenced to 10 years in jail and put on the sex offender registry, after another younger girl recorded the abuse and contacted police. Later that month, Webster embarked on a 250 miles (400 km), seven day run between 40 football grounds for the charity. Webster has appeared on BBC's This Week discussing domestic abuse.
  In March 2010, she competed in the Macmillan 4x4 UK Challenge event in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support. She took an active role in the event, quickly learning the art of navigation and 4x4 driving, the event itself took place in the Mid to North Wales forests. The event raised £123,000 for Macmillan Cancer Support.
  Webster was presented with a heroes award in Parliament for her work in increasing awareness of domestic abuse and raising funds for Women's Aid. She is part of the Ministry of Justice's victim's panel to advise ministers directly on how to improve the criminal justice system.
  She rode the three UK stages of the Tour de France in a Tour de Force group, raising money for the William Wates Memorial Trust for disadvantaged young people. She won the 2014 Running Awards Runners' Challenge.
  Webster is working in the global fight to eradicate malaria. She travelled to Uganda and spent time in a high endemic malaria community making a film in conjunction with the Commonwealth Malaria campaign Malaria Must Die. She launched a Mass Action Against Malaria initiative with President Museveni delivering the keynote speech in the Uganda Parliament in Kampala.
caption: Webster in March 2010
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