TWO Chevron employees put their running shoes on to raise over £1,200 for charity at Tenby's half marathon last June.

Phil Baldry and Rob Weeks, both training co-ordinators at Chevron's Pembroke refinery, ran the full 13.1 miles to raise money for Pembrokeshire Knights Inclusive Activity Centre.

Funds are being raised to build a centre that will cater for children and adults with disabilities. It will include a large indoor recreation and play area equipped with all types of activity equipment that is built or adapted so that anyone can use them, whatever their abilities.

Phil said: "Thank you to everyone from Chevron who sponsored Rob Weeks and me for the Tenby half marathon. Generous employee donations came to a total of £773, which Chevron topped up with a cheque for £500. So in total we collected £1,273 towards the Pembrokeshire Knights Inclusive Activity Centre."

Peter Russ, the chair of the Pembrokeshire Knights Inclusive Activity Centre, said: "We would like to thank everyone at Chevron for putting their hands in their pockets. We are all being asked for donations to things all the time, but this donation really gives us a boost and raises awareness when we are trying to lodge ourselves in people's minds.

"I'd also like the thank Phil, Rob and their friend Vance Phillips, who put in an enormous amount of training in all sorts of weather, giving up a lot of their own time to train for the Tenby marathon."

Plans for the building include function rooms, therapy centres and a self-sustaining cafe restaurant that will bring members of the public into the building. All of the equipment and facilities in the centre will need to be designed for use.

Russ added: "We will speak to people and ask what they want and make it bespoke for their needs. This will be a building that has to be done big and right to get people in and using it. The more people we can involve the better."

The logo of the fund-raising effort is a knight in armour, which was chosen carefully.

"King Arthur had a round table, which meant that everyone at it was equal. We want both disabled and non-disabled children and adults to see others as equals at this centre."