A grandfather will be donning his trainers once again for the Bank of Scotland Great Scottish Run in memory of his grandson who died from cancer when he was just two months old.

Trevor Black from Glenrothes, took up running to raise money for Love Oliver, a charity set up in 2011 by his daughter Jennifer and her husband Andy as a tribute to their first son, Oliver.

He was diagnosed with a very rare and aggressive form of cancer - a Malignant Rhabdoid Tumour - and died at home on Christmas Day in 2010, aged just 24 weeks old, after a brave fight.

Love Oliver helps to fund research into childhood cancer and provides practical support to families in Scotland affected by it - and for Trevor, that’s the only motivation he needs to pound the streets of Glasgow city centre again.

“I took it up to raise funds for my daughter’s charity which she set up in memory of my first grandson who passed away with cancer when he was only two months old,” said the 65-year-old.

“That was in 2010 and they set up the charity Love Oliver in 2011, which has been going very well and has won various awards and raised over £520,000 since it started.

“That is the only charity I run for and that’s why I do it, if it wasn’t for that I don’t think I would be doing this just now, it’s not something that has ever occurred to me to do at this stage in life.

“It’s been good because it’s helped to raise lots of funds for the charity and to increase the awareness of childhood cancer and the funds go towards research and to support families throughout Scotland who have children diagnosed with cancer.

“It’s great that you feel you can make an ongoing contribution like that and personally I’ve felt a lot of benefit from it, just being able to keep fit as it’s the main exercise I do.

“To be able to do that sort of thing at this stage in my life is a great physical benefit and it’s great to be able to support the charity as my daughter gave up her teaching job to run it.”

While it will be the third time Trevor has run the Great Scottish Run, this year he will be taking part in the Community Challenge, launched by race sponsors Bank of Scotland to get Scotland active.

The campaign aims to recruit one runner from each of the 32 local authorities in Scotland to take on a ‘10 week to 10k’ running challenge, with Trevor representing Fife on the day.

As part the ‘10 week to 10k’ challenge, he has received a personalised training programme by an expert coach in the weeks leading up to the run, taking place on September 30.

And Trevor, who has a 10k personal best of 53mins and 30secs, said he has already seen the benefits of the programme as he steps up his training with the race drawing ever closer.

“I feel in good shape, I have a training schedule and that has helped as it’s a ten-week programme and I really felt the benefit from it,” he said.

“It’s just about finishing for me, but it would be a great satisfaction to beat my previous personal best, which I hope I’ll be able to do, but I don’t see it as a competitive thing.

“It’s good to represent my region as well and to combine that with doing it for a charity is great as I’m doing it for the children of Fife as well as other areas of Scotland.

“I’m quite used to running that distance and the main challenge is to keep injury-free and staying motivated as a lot of the time you don’t feel like going out and training.

“It’s especially difficult in the winter time, but I just think about why I’m doing it and Oliver is always in my mind. If I didn’t have that motivation, then I wouldn’t be doing it.

“That’s what keeps me going as at the end of the day you’re trying to create more awareness in the public and just to help other children who find themselves with this horrible disease.”

Bank of Scotland is celebrating its 10th year as proud partner of the Great Scottish Run and for the second-year running will support runners from communities across Scotland on their 10 weeks to 10k challenge in the Bank of Scotland Community Challenge. For more information, visit greatscottishrun.com/community-challenge