A PARTIALLY-sighted student is to run the Stroud Half Marathon to raise money for the eye hospital which helped her as a child.

Determined Bronwyn Large, 21, wants to take on the tough 13-mile challenge to help the thousands of people treated by the Moorfields Eye Hospital near Banbury in Oxfordshire.

"I am really looking forward to it," she said. "The hospital helped me so much - it will be a great goal to aim for."

Bronwyn has just six metres of vision in one eye and almost none in the other, but has been training with friends and marathon organisers from Stroud Athletics Club twice a week.

"They have been really good," she added. "They will be there to keep an eye on me and make sure I do not trip over a kerb or run into a lamp-post."

Keen runner Bronwyn, a former teaching assistant at Randwick Primary School, is due to start a degree in business administration and information technology at Loughborough University in September.

She has been urging friends and family to help her raise £1,000 in sponsorship for Moorfields, where she underwent vital eyelid surgery more than 10 years ago.

A spokesman for Moorfields said: "We are really pleased and grateful to Bronwyn for choosing to raise money for us.

"At present we are fundraising for a new children's eye hospital and the money will benefit future children with sight-threatening conditions.

"We hope she raises lots of money and wish her the best of luck with the marathon."

To help Bronwyn with her appeal email her at pleasesponsorme@fsmail.net