CHARITY hero Ray Collins has now raised more than £30,000 for good causes after doing a 24-hour workout at the gym.

The 41-year-old hopes to collect more than £5,000 after the endurance challenge last Friday and Saturday at TFD Health and Fitness in Grove Technology Park.

The cash will go to cancer care nurses in Wantage, a disability ambulance for Fitzwaryn School and Charlton Day Centre.

Mr Collins, who works at audio visual shop PB Ledbury’s, in Grove Street, tackled treadmills, rowing machines and weights machines in the marathon test.

He has now completed seven similar challenges – last year he walked 80 miles in 24 hours. Mr Collins, of Springfield Road, Wantage, said of his latest challenge: “It was tiring and quite gruelling but you get through it.

“If it was not hard, everyone would do it. It is good to be challenging.”

Boss Andrew Ledbury said: “He puts so much effort in to it, it’s amazing.”