A CHARITY hopes to get more than 100 runners to take part in the Stone 10k.

Since the Robert Bickerton Foundation was set up in 2007, it has put a team of volunteers in the annual race around Stone. The charity was launched eight years after the death of 19-year-old Robert Bickerton, of Hilderstone, who died in a car crash.

In just three years, the foundation has raised over £16,000 for charities including Staffordshire Air Ambulance and the Donna Louise Children's Hospice Trust.

This year the foundation is raising money for the Douglas Macmillan Hospice, in Blurton.

Trustee Alan Bickerton, Robert's father, said: "The Stone 10k and 5k is usually our biggest fund-raiser. Last year we raised over £4,000 for the Douglas Macmillan Hospice. We hope to get 100 people running for our charity."