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Student plans to walk and abseil for youth charity

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Heledd Jenkins has met Northampton Saints players, including James Grayson (left) and Tom Wood, through the foundation

A university student is aiming to raise £4,000 for a youth charity through a two-day walking and abseiling challenge.

Heledd Jenkins, from Kislingbury, near Northampton, will walk 44 miles from Loughborough University, where she has spent the last four years studying, to Franklin's Gardens for the Northampton Saints Foundation.

The following day, she will abseil down the 127m (about 420ft) National Lift Tower.

"I was lucky to work at the foundation on [a university] placement, and it changed my life working with those kids," she said.

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Heledd Jenkins will abseil – something she has never done before – down the National Lift Tower

Ms Jenkins has already raised more than £1,300 for the charity, which will fund a student's education for a year – something she said was "amazing".

The foundation aims to change the lives of disadvantaged and disengaged young people in Northamptonshire.

Ms Jenkins, who said she had been inspired by her time at the foundation, is looking to become a PE teacher.

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