Former Glyn School pupil David Blackmore is gearing up to take on another challenge to raise money for the Bobby Moore Fund.

The 29-year-old will take part in the 10km Grand East Anglia Run (GEAR) in Norfolk on May 1, and is training hard to make sure he beats his previous best time of 46 minutes and 12 seconds.

GEAR organisers decided to award Mr Blackmore the race number 1966 after hearing he wanted to run it in memory of Bobby Moore, and to mark the 50th anniversary of the footballing legend holding aloft the World Cup.

The former Nonsuch Primary School pupil’s connection to the cause is not just the obvious claret and blue one – the journalist and TV presenter has previously fundraised and volunteered for the Bobby Moore Fund on school building projects in South Africa in 2010 and Namibia in 2011.

With it being five decades since England beat Germany to win the World Cup for the first time, the editor of West Ham magazine Blowing Bubbles Monthly hopes to raise £1,966 for the charity.

Mr Blackmore said: "I’ve got first-hand experience of the work the Bobby Moore Fund does, and how it can utterly transform people’s lives, and give them an opportunity which they might never get otherwise."

The Bobby Moore Fund was set up in memory of legendary footballer, who died from bowel cancer aged just 51, to fund pioneering, life-saving bowel cancer research.

Since the fund was set up in 1993, mortality rates have fallen 30 per cent and more than £22 million has been raised for research.

Mr Blackmore would also like people to help raise more awareness for the Bobby Moore Fund by showing their support for another fundraising campaign he started called Blowing Bubbles for Bobby campaign.

It has received the backing of internationally acclaimed writer Irvine Welsh, actress Danniella Westbrook, TV presenter Matthew Wright.

All people need to do is film themselves blowing bubbles in an imaginative and unlikely place, call out five friends to do the same, explain how people can donate by texting BBFB66 £5 to 70070, and upload their video to Facebook, Twitter or YouTube and help spread the word.

For examples of videos other people have recorded www.blowing-bubbles.co.uk/blowing-bubbles-for-bobby.

Donate by texting BBFB66 and the amount to 70070, or by visiting http://tinyurl.com/jxhujog.