Fundraising
Running can be a more rewarding experience if you are also fundraising. Whilst you do not need to run for charity you are encouraged to consider one of the Big Fun Run’s Partner Charities. There are many to choose from. Please use the following search facility to discover more about each charity and help you make a selection. Runners who nominate a Big Fun Run Partner Charities qualify for a discounted entry fee and should receive a fundraising pack from their nominated charity. Please note a charity does not benefit from an entry fee as this is used to cover the costs of staging an event. By nominating a charity you will be expected to fundraise sponsorship on behalf of your nominated charity.
If you are a charity interested in becoming a Big Fun Run Partner Charity please contact us.
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Heart disease touches us all. Every year, thousands die prematurely, and those who survive can find life difficult and frightening. Help us to keep vulnerable hearts beating.
Victim Support is the national charity for victims and witnesses of crime in England and Wales providing free and confidential help to victims, their family, friend and anyone else affected..
Neuroblastoma is a rare aggressive childhood cancer affecting about 100 UK children each year. The Society works exclusively for these children, raising funds for British research, and offering families support.
'WWF Scotland is part of the largest environmental organisation in the world.
WWF’s global network is in action around the clock, working to find solutions to environmental problems to help people and nature. All monies raised will go towards our work both locally and globally and will make a huge difference. You can find out about our current programme of work by visiting our web site: www.wwfscotland.org.uk
The Rhys Jones Memorial Fund was launched to raise money for a community centre to be built in Croxteth, in memory of the 11 year old who was killed in Croxteth on 22nd August 2007,
Macmillan Cancer Support improves the lives of people affected by cancer. We provide practical, medical, emotional and financial support and push for better cancer care. Cancer affects us all. We can all help. We are Macmillan.
Working together to help everyone affected by severe mental illness recover a better quality of life
Rethink, the leading national mental health membership charity, helps over 48,000 people every year through offering expert advice, support and information.
We have over 290 services, 139 support groups and we actively campaign for change through greater awareness and understanding to ensure people with mental illness are not discriminated against.
Mencap is the UK’s leading learning disability charity. Everything we
do is about valuing and supporting children and adults with a learning
disability, and their families and carers
The Born Free Foundation is an international wildlife charity working worldwide to save animal lives, stop suffering, rescue individuals and protect threatened species in the wild.
Group B Streptococcus is the commonest cause of life-threatening infection in newborn babies, infections which are usually preventable. Help Group B Strep Support raise awareness to prevent preventable GBS infections.
The Huntington’s Disease Association is a registered charity which is a national Association committed to supporting families affected by Huntington’s disease.
Someone dies of bowel cancer every 30 minutes. Join the Bowel Cancer UK team for the Big Fun Run and help us to save lives.
Every day 100 people start to lose their sight. We need your help to provide vital services for blind and partially sighted people.
Henshaws enable people with sight loss to build the skills and independence they need, to get the future they want.
Against Breast Cancer funds unique research into breast cancer. Our aim is to find vital information to increase survival after diagnosis and ultimately to discover a vaccine against breast cancer.
The Police Treatment Centres is a charity which provides two centres where serving and retired police officers can receive intensive physiotherapy and treatment following an injury or illness.
Hearing Dogs for Deaf People trains dogs to alert their deaf owners to sounds such as the alarm clock, telephone, doorbell and smoke alarm.
Meningitis UK’s sole focus is on prevention and funding lifesaving research to eradicate all forms of meningitis. Meningitis is a terrifying disease which can kill in less than four hours.
Myeloma UK is the only organisation dealing exclusively with myeloma and its related disorders in the UK. Our broad and innovative range of services cover every aspect of myeloma, from information and support to improving standards of treatment and care through education, research, campaigning and awareness.
“The Nations Children’s Heart charity, Little Hearts Matter is here to offer 24 hour support to the families of the 600 or so children diagnosed annually with half a functioning heart.”
Cancer Research UK is the world’s leading charity dedicated to beating cancer through research. Our groundbreaking work has saved millions of lives.
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is the most common disabling neurological disorder among young adults and it affects around 85,000 people in the UK.
Action for Children is one of the UK's leading children's charities. Action for Children is committed to helping the most vulnerable children and young people in the UK break through injustice, deprivation and inequality, so they can achieve their full potential.
Tuberous Sclerosis Complex is a genetic condition. Symptoms include tumours, epilepsy, learning disability, autism, challenging behaviour, renal and lung problems, and a disfiguring facial rash.
Greenpeace Environmental Trust, the charitable arm of Greenpeace UK, works closely with Greenpeace Limited, the campaigning arm, to protect our environment; funding education, scientific research and investigative projects in world ecology.
Prostate UK works to stop prostate disease ruining lives from all angles. We fund both medical research and training of healthcare professionals, raise public awareness and provide expert information to patients and their families
Cancer affects 1 in 3 of us; anyone, any age, any race and it doesn't care who.
It is our hope and purpose to find the causes of so many peoples pain in a bid to find the cure.
The Motor Neurone Disease (MND) Association is the only national organisation in England, Wales and Northern Ireland dedicated to the support of people with MND and those who care for them.
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DebRA is the national charity that supports individuals and families affected by Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB) – a rare genetic condition which causes the skin to blister and shear at the slightest friction or even spontaneously. There are at least 5,000 people living with this devastating condition in the UK and 500,000 people worldwide.
Breakthrough Breast Cancer is the UK’s leading breast cancer charity. We initiate and support groundbreaking research which aims to eradicate breast cancer. Help us realise our vision of a future free from the fear of breast cancer.
Tommy’s exists to save babies lives by funding medical research and providing information on the causes and prevention of premature birth, stillbirth and miscarriage.
The RNLI is the charity that saves lives at sea, and needs your support to train and equip our volunteer lifeboat crews and lifeguards.
Every week in the UK at least 12 apparently fit and healthy young people die of undiagnosed heart conditions. CRY aims to reduce the frequency of young sudden cardiac death.
The National Autistic Society is the UK’s leading charity for people affected by autism.
Over 500,000 people in the UK have autism.
Together with their families they make up over two million people whose lives are touched by autism every single day. Despite this, autism is still relatively unknown and misunderstood. Which means that many of these two million people get nothing like the level of help, support and understanding they need.
Together, we are going to change this.
Zoe's Place Trust run the only baby specific hospices in the UK, providing 24 hour palliative respite care to infants aged 0-5 years with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions. Babies can stay at our hospices from a day to a fortnight period, giving parents a much needed break from their full time care responsibilities.
The Cardiomyopathy Association is a national charity that works to provide information and support to individuals and their families affected by cardiomyopathy.
Starlight grants wishes of a lifetime to seriously and terminally ill children, and entertains children with fun and laughter in every hospital and hospice throughout the UK. Happy children respond better to treatment and each year Starlight helps over half a million children to forget about their illness and simply have a bit of fun
Personal Experience, Professional Support. We are here for anyone affected by breast cancer. We want every person affected by breast cancer to get the best treatment, information and support.
PAPYRUS charity for prevention of young suicide gives practical advice to young people worried about themselves and to anyone concerned about them – parents, friends, teachers… through its national helpline, HOPELineUK, resources and awareness campaigns.
Action For Kids is a national charity helping children and young people physical and learning disabilities. We transform young lives not only by supplying wheelchairs but also by providing opportunities for work and training.
Mercy Ships delivers free, urgent surgeries and health development services in the world’s poorest countries, from their hospital ship, the Africa Mercy. Run for those in desperate need of medical care, and make a lifelong difference!
LUPUS UK is the only National Charity supporting people with Lupus. We send out information, have a membership scheme, support medical research, welfare applications and have 30 Regional Groups nationwide.
Established 10 years ago, the EPT is committed to raising awareness of the symptoms of ectopic pregnancy and it provides information, comfort and support for those affected by it in the form of a help line and a website, which receives 50,000 visits a month. Furthermore it provides education and training to the healthcare professionals working in early pregnancy medicine.
The Blue Cross, animal welfare charity
You could help us give unwanted and needy pets a brighter future.
SADS UK help save lives. Heart disease can exist in apparently health people, even children, support SADS UK in their aims to prevent SADS, sudden cardiac death.
Meningitis Research Foundation (MRF) is a nationally registered charity, which funds vital scientific research into the prevention, detection & treatment of meningitis & septicaemia. We also promote awareness of the diseases and offer support to those affected.
Sands, the stillbirth and neonatal death charity was founded in 1978. It was set up by a small group of bereaved parents devastated by the death of their babies and in particular by what they felt at the time was a complete lack of acknowledgement and understanding of the significance and impact of their loss.
We’re the Parkinson’s support and research charity. Help us find a cure and improve life for everyone affected by Parkinson’s.
The Muscular Dystrophy Campaign is the only UK charity focusing on all muscle disease. We have pioneered the search for treatments and cures since 1959, and are dedicated to improving the lives of all people affected by muscle disease.
Epilepsy Research UK promotes and supports basic and clinical scientific research into the causes, treatment and prevention of epilepsy. We are the only charity in the UK dedicated to funding independent research exclusively into epilepsy.
Bliss works for special care babies born too soon, too small or too sick to cope on their own. We offer support to families, campaign for better care and fund ground-breaking research.
Marie Curie Cancer Care provides high quality nursing; totally free, to give people with terminal cancer and other illnesses, the choice of dying at home, supported by their families.
Woodlands Hospice provides specialist palliative care and support free of charge to patients with cancer and other life-threatening illnesses, their families and carers either through day therapy, as an out-patient or our outreach team in their own homes. Over and above its government funding Woodlands Hospice needs to raise more than £1,000 every day from fundraising and donations to provide this care.
The Meningitis Trust is the UK’s primary provider of professional services and community-based support for people affected by meningitis. It helps around 20,000 people each year through its range of specialist services; giving vital support to those who have been affected by this life-changing disease.
MHA provides housing and care for older people, many living with dementia, through a wide
range of projects including community support, befriending, retirement housing, care homes
and dementia care centres.
Today 6 teenagers heard the words "you have cancer", 6 will hear it tomorrow and 6 the day after. Teenage Cancer Trust funds specialist teenage units in NHS hospitals that are boosting survival rates. Help us reach every single young person with cancer in the UK.
CAFOD works to end poverty and make a just world, helping the poor regardless of race or religion and campaigning for a fairer world. We respond to emergencies, promote long-term development and raise public awareness of the causes of poverty.
By running for Guide Dogs you'll be helping provide mobility and independence to thousands of blind and partially-sighted people.
The Jennifer Trust for Spinal Muscular Atrophy is the only national charity in the UK dedicated both to supporting people affected by SMA, and investing in essential research into causes, treatments and eventually a cure for this condition.
North West Air Ambulance is a charity which operates the only emergency air ambulance in the North West. Our 2 helicopters operate across Cheshire, Cumbria, Lancashire, Greater Manchester and Merseyside. We cover a residential population of 7 million people and we need to raise
£4 million a year to keep saving lives.
Action Against Hunger is an international humanitarian organisation committed to ending child hunger. Action Against Hunger saves the lives of malnourished children while providing communities with access to safe water and sustainable solutions to hunger.
We are dedicated to conquering Britain's most common childhood cancer through pioneering research, new treatments and support for leukaemic children and their families.
Hope for Children (registered charity No: 1041258) was founded to assist disabled and disadvantaged children in developing countries and the United Kingdom. Here at Hope we are a low cost, no frills charity, ensuring that 100% of public donations go directly to our beneficiaries, helping those most in need.
Diabetes UK is the largest organisation in the UK working for people with diabetes, funding research, campaigning and helping people live with the condition.
The Children’s Trust is a national charity providing rehabilitation to children following a brain injury. Each year 5000 children acquire a brain injury through accident or illness. We help children live their lives to the full.
The Macular Disease Society is the only UK charity dedicated to supporting people with Macular Disease (MD), the most common cause of visual impairment in the UK.
The Stroke Association is the only UK-wide charity solely concerned with combating stroke in people of ages. We act as a voice for everyone affected by stroke. Charity Registration No 211015 (England), SCO37789 (Scotland)
The Brittle Bone Society is the only UK charity supporting people affected by Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI). We provide information, advice, support and equipment to anyone affected by OI, their families, carers, social workers and medical professionals.
The Bobby Moore Fund for Cancer Research UK raises money for research into bowel cancer and also public awareness of the disease in memory of footballer Bobby Moore.
As the leading UK blood cancer research charity, Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research will continue to invest in ground-breaking research to most benefit those touched by blood cancers including leukaemia, lymphoma and myeloma.