A Channel swim takes place this month in memory of of a young woman who took her own life.

Megan Forbes was also a Channel swimmer and her team members are now carrying out this effort to raise money for a suicide prevention charity.

The exact date of the venture, weather permitting, will be confirmed later.

The team said in a Virgin Money fundraising page: "This young lady, beautiful to the core, a happy life and soul person, the best you could ever meet with a zest for life and adventure, always displaying a beaming smile which lit up a room had disappeared from us forever.

"We are still struggling to accept that we won't see her beautiful smiling face any more.

"We have watched the pain and anguish of each other dealing with the loss and try to support each other to not only come to terms that she is now an angel flying high but also the reasons why such a greatly loved individual felt so isolated in her world that she thought that ending her life was the best way forward."

Funds from the swim will go to Papyrus, the UK charity for the prevention of suicide among the young.

The target figure is £4,000 and the total raised so far, by today, is £2,831.52.

Megan Forbes, 28, from River, died in January.

She was a former head girl at Dover Grammar School for Girls and an award-winning Channel swimmer.

She became the youngest to achieve this, in 2007, when she was 16.

She was a member of the Eltham Training Swimming Club in south London, which will carry out the commemorative swim.

She was a Junior Champion of Champions in the British Long Distance Swimming Association event, which is held at Dover Harbour.

To support the event visit the web page uk.virginmoneygiving.com/Team/Smilesformiles1

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