The mum of a teenager who died of terminal cancer is once again lacing her running shoes in her honour.
Alice Pyne, from Ulverston, was just 14 when she was given a terminal prognosis but, determined to make every second count, she started an online blog detailing her hopes and dreams.
One wish was to start a charity that would allow seriously ill children to enjoy a family holiday.
She died in 2013 after her battle with the illness - but used her life to help families of other seriously ill children through Alice’s Escapes.
To this day, the charity still provides bereavement breaks for those who have lost a child of any age and family escapes for seriously and terminally ill children.
Alice’s mum Victoria Pennington-Pyne is taking part in the Keswick to Barrow Walk in May for the 19th time to raise money for the charity and to keep her daughter's spirit alive.
She said: "I really should have stopped at 15 but now I'm determined to get to the elusive twentieth walk.
"I'm slowly rusting up but I'm as determined as ever to complete this challenge for my girl in the stars."
Since its inception, Alice's Escapes has helped more than 400 families from across the Furness community as well as all over the country.
"For all the good Alice achieved - over 200 people are alive today purely down to Alice’s work with the bone marrow charities - I do struggle remembering what it was like before the cancer," she said.
"Alice never got to be an adult, she never had a boyfriend, she didn’t learn to drive or get to go to university, she never got to marry and raise a family."
It is through these personal experiences that Victoria is still committed to the cause in 2024 in the hope she and the charity can help other people facing the same torment.
"It’s all the should haves and could haves," she explained.
"There’s so little support out there once you’re turfed out of active treatment - as always, I’ll do my best and I promise I’ll never stop caring for these families."
In 2012, Alice and her sister Milly were among the first people in 20 years to receive the British Empire Medal (BEM) for services to charity in the Queen's Birthday Honours list after it was scrapped in 1993. The sisters raised more than £100,000 for charity.
That same year, Alice received the Teenager of Courage Award from pop star Robbie Williams at the Daily Mirror Pride of Britain Awards.
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