A SUPERMARKET worker who found herself at a notorious suicide spot when she was going through a tough time is supporting the charity that helped her.

Hayley Gibson, 21, from Lewes, who works at Waitrose in Uckfield, is to run the Out Of The Blue 10k for the Beachy Head Chaplaincy Team.

Its volunteers, most of them Christians from local congregations, have patrolled the cliffs since 2004, specialising in crisis intervention and search and rescue.

Hayley has experienced their work first hand.

She said: “Over the past year I have found myself at Beachy Head for all for the wrong reasons.

“With no pressure, they give you all the time in the world to open up and try to explain what problems you have.”

Now Hayley is pulling on her trainers to do her bit for the charity, despite not having done any running for more than a decade.

She said: “I am biting the bullet and giving it all I’ve got to try to make a difference to mental health awareness.

“I have never done a sponsored run before and the last time I would have done any sort of running race would have been back in primary school.”

Hayley learnt about the run through a chaplaincy team leader who she credits for helping her through her mental health issues.

She said: “He initially mentioned it to me and how I should enter into the run.

“Then I sat back and began to think to myself, you know what, I’m going to do this.

“This charity has done so much for me and I just want to give them a little something back and say a huge thank you.

“I want to raise as much money and awareness about their charity work as possible.

“I also want to give people the opportunity to read my story and to spread awareness about mental health issues which I believe is a very closed subject.”

The Out Of The Blue 10k takes place in May at Ashburnham Place, near Battle, alongside a 5k run.

Last year the event attracted more than 450 entrants.

Out Of The Blue is a fundraising body established in memory of Will Beckett, who took his life at Beachy Head in January 2013 at the age of 42.