A 21-year-old student who is running Sheffield Half Marathon has raised more than £200 of her £300 target for a Mental Health Charity dubbed the ‘Be Me’ Project.

Lucie Harding, a second year nursing student at the University Of Sheffield, has always had a strong involvement with the project.

The ‘Be Me Project’ aims to support young people suffering with anxiety and low self esteem through courses, events and drop in sessions.

The project began with a course for girls named ‘She Is’ followed by a course for boys named ‘Who am I?’ which target Year 8 and 9 students in secondary school.

The founder of the ‘Be Me Project’, Lucy Mason, began the charity teaching in a further education college 10 years ago, after finding that younger secondary school students would come to her with struggles surrounding anxiety and life problems.

Lucy said: “Kids need help with their grounding and who they are. We’re all different and we’re all unique, I can’t be you, you can’t be me, we have to focus on identity and finding out who we are.

“Now there’s social media problems, the schools are just drowning in it.”

She added: “We just rely on kind donations, fundraising. We also have some wonderful people who apply for grants. It’s a voice for us and can help make the charity heard.”

Lucie is running the Sheffield Half Marathon on 23 March for the organisation as a way to raise awareness of the project as well as due to her involvement at a younger age, and how the project helped her.

Organisers said fundraisers such as Lucie’s help the project thrive and provide it with more traction.