A DARWEN man will follow TV celebrities when he takes a charity challenge in the jungle.

But unlike the team on ITV's I'm a Celebrity - Get Me Out of Here!, Callum Rigby, 29, of Prospect Avenue, will aim to complete a 100km walk through the Vietnamese jungle in October to raise money for children with cerebral palsy.

The fund raiser has taken part in sponsored walks for a wide range of charities over the past 10 years but the Vietnam trek is the most challenging of them all.

Callum, assistant manager of Preston's SCOPE charity shop, said: "This is the first time the charity is going to hold a sponsored walk in Vietnam. They hold similar trips to the Great Wall of China and to the Peruvian mountains but because this is new, I decided I really wanted to do it.

"I've taken part in two annual fun runs in Witton Park to raise money for people with MS and I just love the warm feeling I get inside when I know I'm doing it for a good cause."

Callum needs to raise £2,600 before he sets off on the trip of a lifetime in October. The trek will last 10 days, involving five days travelling to and from Vietnam and five days trekking the country's jungles.

He will experience, together with 60 other fund raisers from across the country, the hospitality of local people in stilted houses in remote villages, as well as Ho Chi Minh city.

He said: "We start off in Pleiku which is in central Vietnam and we work our way towards the national parks of the country and trek through them. It should be an amazing experience but I know it's going to be hard work.

"We will be looking to complete 10km each day and in jungle conditions that's going to be very difficult."

Callum, who has raised £1,850 so far, has taken to long walks on the moors and lengthy swimming sessions to keep fit.

He said: "I haven't got a structured fitness regime but I just snatch some exercise whenever I have the time."

SCOPE is the UKs largest charity working with people with cerebral palsy, a physical impairment that effects movement.

The condition is caused by the failure of a part of the brain to develop properly in childhood or before birth.

The charity provides essential services for families and carers of cerebral palsy sufferers, who can suffer unwanted movements and disabilities as a result of the condition.