IDLES’ Jon Beavis completes charity run in support of Rosa and Reclaim These Streets

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IDLES‘ Jon Beavis has completed a 104km charity run in support of women’s organisations Rosa and Reclaim These Streets.The band’s drummer raised more than £5,500 and said the challenge was tough and thanked the “generous people” who donated.He took part in the run just weeks after Sarah Everard’s body was in found woodland in Kent.Beavis told BBC News: “When the news of Sarah Everard came up, I think it shocked a lot of guys I know because we’re almost blind to it.”Throughout April he often ran with female friends who shared their stories along the way.“It was a conversation that needed to be more in the limelight and doing it for this whole month kept it in that limelight,” he added.The last few weeks have shone a light on many shocking.