FUND-raising West Somerset schoolgirl Darcey Curran comfortably beat her £500 target to support the Exmoor Search and Rescue Team (ESRT) charity over the festive period.

Darcey, aged 12, at the same time beat her own running record by completing a 14-mile Community Canal Run organised by Minehead-based Channel Events, her longest ever run.

She raised £580 from the run from Bridgwater to Taunton along the canal towpath, which she completed with her father and mother Mark and Jack Curran.

Minehead schoolgirl Darcey Curran, who fund-raised for Exmoor Search and Rescue with her parents Mark and Jack, by completing the Channel Events Community Canal Run.
Minehead schoolgirl Darcey Curran fund-raised for Exmoor Search and Rescue with her parents Mark and Jack, by completing the Channel Events Community Canal Run. (Contributed)

Darcey, who attends Minehead Middle School, ran half the distance the previous year and also is the youngest person to complete the 30-mile Exmoor Perambulation walk when she was aged nine years.

ESRT costs about £50,000 a year to operate and is funded by public donations.