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A woman with cerebral palsy is aiming to raise £5,000 for Chailey Heritage Foundation by walking three miles (or 5K) in one day.

Anna Grace Taylor, 40, of Beacon Crescent, Burgess Hill, said this will be the furthest she has ever walked.

Her challenge begins on Hove seafront at 10.30am on Saturday (September 18), and she will walk one mile at a time with a rest in between.

Anna will walk her second mile near her home in Burgess Hill at 1.30pm and she aims to complete the final mile on Lindfield Common at 4.30pm.

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“I use four times more energy to move and walk than the average person,” said Anna, who works as an angel therapist, spiritual mentor and author.

“I walk with crutches and sometimes use a wheelchair if I’m doing things like shopping or travelling,” she said, adding that a mile’s walk takes her roughly one hour.

“By the time I get to half a mile it’s like doing a jog,” she said.

“I get hot, I get tired, my muscles hurt, it’s like the average person doing major exercise.”

Anna Grace Taylor, who has cerebral palsy, is raising funds for the Chailey Heritage Foundation by walking five kilometres in one day.

Anna explained that she was born 11 weeks prematurely with her twin sister and that her cerebral palsy was likely caused by lack of oxygen at birth.

“I learned to walk when I was six years old,” she said, adding that she had bone and muscle surgery at Great Ormond Street Hospital when she was 14 to improve her walking.

She was at Warden Park Academy, Cuckfield, at the time and was told that if she did not have the surgery she would be in a wheelchair by age 30.

Burgess Hill woman with cerebral palsy raises thousands for Chailey Heritage Foundation with three-mile walk