RUN FOR CHARITY
Many runners choose to run Richmond RUNFEST for charity and we have some amazing causes to choose from.
All charities below have places in the 2022 events. Not only will they support you in your training, they will be there for you on race day!
Cancer Research UK
Contact The Team on 0300 123 5461 or email sportsteam@cancer.org.uk
Today, 1 in 2 people now survive cancer; we want to get to 3 in 4 by 2034. Every step we make towards beating cancer relies on every pound, and every runner. Cancer is happening right now. You can help beat it sooner. Join our team and help bring forward the day when all cancers are cured.
Macmillan Cancer Support
Contact The Challenge Events Team on 0300 1000 200 or email running@macmillan.org.uk
At Macmillan, we give people with cancer everything we’ve got. If you’re diagnosed, your worries are our worries. We will move mountains to help you live life as fully as you can. And we don’t stop there. We’re going all out to find ever better ways to help people with cancer, helping to bring forward the day when everyone gets life-transforming support from day one. We’ll do whatever it takes.
WWF
Contact the Events Team on 01483 426333 or email challenge@wwf.org.uk
We’re WWF and we’re fighting for your world. We’re determined to stop the destruction of nature and help it recover. Join the race to save our world and help turn things around.
Alzheimer’s Society - Charity of the Year 2022
Contact The Running Team on 0330 333 0804 or email events@alzheimers.org.uk
Every three minutes someone in the UK is diagnosed with dementia and there’s currently no cure. By joining team Alzheimer’s Society you can provide life changing support and funding research into a cure to put an end to dementia for good.
British Heart Foundation
Contact Heart Runners Support Team on 0300 222 5719 or email heartrunners@bhf.org.uk
Heart and circulatory disease is one of the UK’s biggest killers. BHF has been funding life saving research to help stop the sudden and unexpected devastation that heart and circulatory disease causes. Today 435 people will still lose their lives. This is unacceptable – but together we can change it.
Sense
Contact The Team on 0300 330 9257 or email eventsteam@sense.org.uk
For everyone living with complex disabilities. For everyone who is deafblind. Sense offers personalised support to help people communicate and experience the world. We believe that no one, no matter how complex their disabilities, should be isolated, left out, or unable to fulfil their potential.
Target Ovarian Cancer
Contact The Team on 020 7923 5474 or email fundraising@targetovariancancer.org.uk
Join #TeamTarget to raise awareness, fund research and save lives.
Battersea Dogs & Cats Home
Contact The Team on 0207 627 7893 or email events@battersea.org.uk
Battersea is here for every dog and cat, and has been since 1860. We believe that every dog and cat deserves the best. That's why we help every dog and cat in need
Meningitis Now
Contact The Events Team on 01453 768 000 or email joannew@meningitisnow.org
Join #TeamTangerine and help us kick meningitis into touch
Meningitis Research Foundation
Contact the Team on 0333 405 6248 or email run@meningitis.org
We fund research towards defeating meningitis and septicaemia and give support to those affected
World Cancer Research Fund
Contact Priyanka Kotecha on 07741 634347 or email events@wcrf.org
The UK’s leading cancer prevention charity.
British Red Cross
Contact The Challenge Team on 07764206617 or email challenges@redcross.org.uk
The British Red Cross helps millions of people in the UK and around the world get the support they need if crisis strikes.
Children With Cancer UK
Contact The Sports Team on 020 7430 7788 or email sports@childrenwithcancer.org.uk
Children with Cancer UK actively raise and invest money for vital specialist research that would otherwise go unfunded to save the lives of every child with cancer to keep their family together.
Lymphoma Action
Contact the Team on 01296619400 or email fundraising@lymphoma-action.org.uk
Lymphoma Action is the UK’s only charity dedicated to lymphoma, the most common cancer in 15-24-year olds ‘and the UK’s fifth most common cancer
DEBRA
Contact The Team on 01344 771961 or email fundraising@debra.org.uk
Run to #FightEB help people living with EB today
Royal Trinity Hospice
Contact The Team on 020 7787 3234 or email fundraisingteam@royaltrinityhospice.london
Going above and beyond to help our patients and their families live every moment they have left as fully as possible.
SANE
Contact Simone on 020 38051790 or email smoraes@sane.org.uk
SANE is a leading national mental health charity
Heart of Kent Hospice
Contact Challenge Team on 01622 795692 or email challenges@hokh.co.uk
Heart of Kent Hospice is a local charity independent of the NHS supporting over 1,700 local terminally ill people and their loved ones.
The Vineyard
Contact Annette on 02084399735 or email annette@vineyardcommunity.org
Celebrating 10 years of helping people in crisis
Age UK Richmond
Contact Aydee on 020 3816 0038 or email fundraising@ageukrichmond.org.uk
Helping older people live healthier, happier and more independent lives
Safe Child Thailand
Contact The Team on 0207 602 6203 or email info@safechildthailand.org
Change a child’s life! Join us to keep vulnerable children in Thailand safe.
Leukaemia Care
Contact The Team on 01905 755977 or email events@leukaemiacare.org.uk
Helping people live better with blood cancer