AN Odiham dental practice is going the extra mile, in more ways than one, to raise money for charity.

King Street Dental Practice has been fundraising for the charity Dentaid over the last year and now members of the team are giving it one final push.

Dentist Alison Spencer-Lane and her dental nurse Lyndsey Barnes will be taking a 6,200-mile trip to Cambodia in October for two weeks of volunteer work where they will be treating people from disadvantaged backgrounds in desperate need of help.

And Dr Elaine Weaver and Justine Furness will be covering the miles with their feet rather than with a set of wings, each completing a marathon over the next month.

Dentaid is a charity that is dedicated to enabling people from disadvantaged communities around the world to get relief from dental pain and to educate them about oral health.

Cambodia-bound Alison and Lyndsey have both had to raise £2,000 each, running the Brighton marathon and completing a gruelling mud run.

There also been events which have been less icing of sore limbs and more icing of cakes, with cake sales, Christmas raffles and staff and patient donations helping them hit their fundraising targets.

The Odiham practice will also be donating instruments and items for cross-infection control to Dentaid.

For Dr Weaver, she will be running her marathon for a charity a little closer to home, as she will look to raise funds for robbiesrally, a fund within Southampton Hospital Charity which helps the rehabilitation of children with the lasting effects of brain tumours, allowing them to continue their education more easily by giving strategies that enable them to learn in different ways so as to work with their brain injury.

The charity was set up by 10-year-old Robbie Keville, who died in February this year from a brain tumour, with the charity’s aim to help toward the building of a dedicated paediatric neuro oncology outpatient rehabilitation team, to be named Robbies Rehabilitation.

The team would enable the children to adapt to normal life again after they have completed their treatment.

Mrs Furness will be running the York marathon in October for St Michael’s Hospice in Basingstoke, where she is being tipped to run the fastest time out of the marathon running employees, with Dr Weaver just “looking to get round in under 24 hours!”.

King Street practice has been serving the community for more than 30 years and has supported many other charities across that time, including Victoria’s Promise, St Michael’s Hospice and Macmillan.

To donate to Dentaid, a minimum donation of £5 can be made by texting TEETH to 70600 and for more information on Elaine Weaver’s fundraising efforts for robbiesrally, visit justgiving.com/fundraising/robbiesrally.