CHARITIES

Running and charity fund raising have become very closely interlinked – what better way is there for extracting sponsorship from your family, friends and colleagues than to announce you are going to run a marathon?

We are very pleased to work closely with some of the most active charities on a wide variety of projects - whether it is organizing guaranteed entry and travel to marathons in New York, Chicago, Paris or Cuba or organizing more local events in the UK.

The charities listed below are working with 2:09 Events in 2008 - please contact them directly about their running programmes.

Charity Description Telephone Email Website Action Medical Research Action Medical Research is a leading independent medical research charity. For nearly 60 years we have been instrumental in the development of some of the most significant breakthroughs in recent medical history including the UK polio vaccine and discovering the importance of folic acid during pregnancy. Our research has helped and will continue to benefit thousands of children affected by disease and disability. By supporting us you can help us find ways to prevent life-threatening infections such as meningitis and pneumonia, as well as help fund vital research to reduce premature birth and improve care for sick babies. 01403 210406 Email Website Alzheimer's Society Alzheimer's Society is the UK's leading support services and research charity for people with dementia and those who care for them. Join our Running Team and help lead the fight against dementia. Andy Sallnow - 0207 423 3650 Email Website Barnardo's We believe in the potential in every child and young person, no matter who they are, what they have done or what they have been through. We will support them, stand up for them and bring out the best in each and every child. Ally McKenna - 020 8498 7408 Email Website Breakthrough Breast Cancer Breakthrough is the UK's leading charity committed to fighting breast cancer through research, campaigning and education and established the UK's first dedicated breast cancer research centre in partnership with the Institute of Cancer Research. Running Team 020 7025 2483 Email Website Breast Cancer Campaign Breast Cancer Campaign's mission is to beat breast cancer by funding innovative world-class research to understand how breast cancer develops, leading to improved diagnosis, treatment, prevention and cure. We believe that research is the start of the solution: building a brighter future for people with breast cancer. 020 77494107 Email Website Breast Cancer Care Breast Cancer Care is here for anyone affected by breast cancer. We bring people together, provide information and support, and campaign for improved standards of care. We use our understanding of people's experience of breast cancer and our clinical expertise in everything we do. Visit www.breastcancercare.org.uk or call our free helpline on 0808 800 6000. Claire O'Neill - 0808 800 6000. Email Website   British Heart Foundation Heart Runners Support Team - 020 7487 9430 Email Website   Cancer Research UK Cancer Research UK is the world's leading independent organisation dedicated to cancer research, relying almost entirely upon donations from the public. Join the Cancer Research UK running team today and together we will beat cancer. Running Team Hotline - 0870 162 1622 Email Website   Canine Partners Canine Partners is a progressive charity that aims to transform the lives of people with disabilities, enabling them to live more independently by partnering them with highly trained assistance dogs. As a registered charity we receive no government funding and are wholly dependent on public donations and legacies. 08456 580 480 Email Website CLIC Sargent Every day 10 families are told their child has cancer. As the UK's leading children's cancer charity, CLIC Sargent is the only organisation to offer them all round care and support. That's because we're there every step of the way: During treatment - providing specialist nurses, doctors, play specialists, Homes from Home. In hospital & at home - offering specialist social care and family support in the community - specialist youth services, holidays, grants, helpline, Also after treatment - helping survivors, supporting those bereaved, and research. CLIC Sargent's Charity Registration Number is 1107328. Louise Oakley - 01173 148605 Email Website   Diabetes UK Ellie Wood - 020 7424 1868 Email Website Disability Snowsport UK Disability Snowsport seeks to enrich and enhance the lives of those with a disbility by enabling them to take part in skiing and snowboarding. We help individuals have fun and transfer the benefits that they gain to their everyday lives. Kirsty Crompton - 0161 749 2297 Email Website Dreams Come True Dreams Come True is a UK children's charity whose sole purpose is to fulfil the dreams of terminally and seriously ill children and young people aged 2 to 21. In the last twenty years we have helped make over 3000 dreams come true and as a result debilitating illness, painful treatment and an uncertain future have been transformed with happiness, fun and wonderful, everlasting memories. You can make a world of difference by helping us make more dreams become a reality. If we can find a way to make a dream come true we will as we believe the only limit is a child's imagination. Freephone 0800 018 6013 Email Website Fairbridge Fairbridge aims to give young people from disadvantaged urban areas a fairer chance to succeed in life. Every year we work with over 3,700 young people that most other organisations find difficult to engage. Outside education, training and employment, they have often lost hope for their future. We help them to think differently. 0207 902 1633 Email Website Gorilla Organisation The Gorilla Organization works internationally to save the world's last gorillas from extinction through a programme combining traditional conservation, research, education and community development. Sam Davies - 0207 916 4974 Email Website Great Ormond Street Hospital Great Ormond Street Hospital is one of the world's leading children's hospitals. Every year more than 100,000 children from around the country as well as from abroad are being cared for by the hospital's specialist doctors and nurses. Many of these children are suffering from the rarest, most complex and often life-threatening conditions. We need to raise £50 million every year to help rebuild and refurbish two-thirds of the hospital, buy vital equipment, fund research and put up 1,000 parents a week so that they can stay near their children. Challenge Events Team - 0207 239 3000 Email Website Helen Rollason Cancer Charity Helen Rollason Cancer Charity is dedicated to supporting people whose lives are touched by cancer. It is the legacy of Helen Rollason MBE, who was a pioneering female television sport presenter and broadcaster. Our cancer support centres are vital in helping patients live with cancer while our cancer research teams undertake studies into the disease and offer clinical trials. 01245 515235 Email Website   Kids Simone Hardy - 020 7354 9483 Email Website Landaid Charitable Trust LandAid is the charity of the UK property sector from which our support is drawn. As a Charitable Trust, LandAid makes grants to other charities to support a variety of projects usually connected with homelessness. Every June we organise a 5km Fun Run around Battersea Park. Annette Sanders - 020 7802 0117 Email Website Leonard Cheshire Disability Leonard Cheshire Disability exists to change attitudes to disability and to serve disabled people around the world. They support more than 21,000 disabled people in the UK, and a further 30,000 disabled people in 52 countries around the world. 0203 242 0241 Email Website MAG MAG (Mines Advisory Group) is a neutral, impartial humanitarian organisation clearing the remnants of conflict for the benefit of communities worldwide, enabling recovery and assisting the development of affected populations. MAG works to lessen the threat of death and injury, releasing safe land back to the local population. 0161 236 4311 Email Website Marie Curie Cancer Care Marie Curie Cancer Care will care for you from start to finish - join our Daffodil Team and receive a free NIKE Dri Fit running vest, and much more. Join today and help us provide free nursing care to cancer patients and those with other terminal illnesses in their own homes. 0870 0340 040 Email Website MENCAP Mencap is the UK's leading learning disability charity working with people with a learning disability, their families and carers. Together, we fight for equal rights, we campaign for greater opportunities and we challenge attitudes and prejudice. We also provide advice and support to meet people's needs throughout their lives. Ellen Brooks 020 7696 6929 Email Website Meningitis UK Meningitis UK's sole focus is to eradicate meningitis. Meningitis is a terrifying disease, which can kill in less than four hours and tragically is most prevalent in children and young people. We are confident that with enough support we can put a stop to the heartache and devastation it causes. Lauren Vincent, Events Fundraiser 0117 302 6191 Email Website Mood The Mood Fondation helps people suffering from depressive conditions receive treatment they would otherwise be unable to afford. We run group therapy sessions coupled with alternative therapies to lift people out of depression. Treatment is often too expensive or not readily available, so at the Mood Foundation we offer necessary channels of accessing this help, without any costings to the patient. Contact our fundraising team - contact@moodfoundation.com if you would like to help raise money for this cause. Email Website Multiple Sclerosis Society The Multiple Sclerosis Society is the UK's largest charity dedicated to supporting everyone whose life is touched by MS. It funds vital research as well as providing support through a freephone helpline, specialist MS nurses, respite care and a wide range of information Events Team - 0870 241 3565 Email Website   Muscular Dystrophy Campaign 0207 803 4800 Email Website NSPCC The NSPCC has a vision of society where all children are loved, valued and able to fulfil their potential. To realise this vision, the NSPCC currently funds over 180 Child Protection Teams and Projects. Help us put a stop to child cruelty. Running Events Team on 020 7825 2621 Email Website Parkinson's Disease Society Parkinson's disease is a progressive neurological condition affecting movement, such as walking, talking, and writing. There are 120,000 people with Parkinson's in the UK. There is currently no cure. We provide support, advice and information to people with Parkinson's, their carers, families and friends and to health and social services professionals involved in management and care. We have more than 330 branches, support groups and special interest groups throughout the UK, many run by volunteers. We are totally dependent on voluntary donations. Kate Welch - 020 7932 1342 Email Website Penny Brohn Cancer Care We provide support to people with cancer, and their loved ones - our doors are open to all and offer a safe environment for mind, body and spirit when we are at our most vulnerable. We receive no government funding and really rely on people taking part in events to keep our doors open so join us! Kirsty McLatchie - 01275 370081 Email Website Power International Power International is a non-government organisation that helps people living with disabilities in Laos, Zambia and Mozambique. Our vision is a world in which persons with disabilities are enabled to participate as fully as they choose in the economic and social life of their communities. 01494 464 922 Email Website Prostate Cancer Research Run for us and simply raise what you can! Each hour one man in the UK will die from prostate cancer. By joining us you will help to bring results from the bench to the bedside. Tel: 020 7679 9595 Email Website   Save The Children We're the world's independent children's charity. We're outraged that millions of children are still denied proper healthcare, food, education and protection. We're working flat out to get every child their rights and we're determined to make further, faster changes. How many? How fast? It's up to you. 020 7012 6400 Email Website Save the Rhino Save the Rhino works to protect genetically viable populations of critically endangered rhinoceros species in the wild. We do this by fundraising for and making grants to rhino and community based conservation projects throughout Africa and Asia. Lizzie Whitebread - 020 7357 7474 Email Website Sense Sense is the leading charity in the UK offering lifelong support, advice, education and practical help to deaf and blind children and adults- and their families. Run for Sense and support us in changing even more people's lives. Active Events Team - 0845 1270 063 Email Website Shelter Shelter believes everyone should have a home. We help people find and keep a home. We campaign for decent housing for all. Join the Shelter Running Team and help homeless and badly housed children and families across the UK. The Running Events Team - 0844 515 1190 Email Website Sparks Sparks is a charity dedicated to funding pioneering paediatric research with a single aim: Helping ALL babies to be born healthy and grow up healthy. Sparks is special because we aren't a single cause charity. We fund research across the whole spectrum of paediatric medicine. Childhood cancer, childhood arthritis, meningitis, club foot, cerebral palsy, spina bifida and all the risks associated with premature birth are just a few of the areas where Sparks doctors and scientists are leading the race to save lives. Kags Garrard Email Website Starlight Children's Foundation Starlight Children's Foundation grants once in a lifetime wishes for seriously and terminally ill children and creates entertainment in every children's hospital across the UK. For every £1 donated, 91p goes straight to helping Starlight's very sick children. Lucy Noel-Buxton 020 7262 2881 (ext 257) Email Website The Children's Trust The Children's Trust is a unique organisation providing residential and outreach nursing care, therapy and education to some of the UK's most disabled children and their families. Some of the children are born with disabilities, others have become disabled as a result of an accident or illness. We are the leading provider of Brain Injury Rehabilitation for Children in the UK. Ceri Owens 01737 365017 Email Website The John Aspinal Foundation The Aspinall Foundation in conjunction with Howletts and Port Lympne Wild Animal Parks in Kent is devoted to saving rare and endangered animals and returning them to protected areas in the wild. These activities include the management of two gorilla rescue and rehabilitation projects in Congo and Gabon, Central Africa, where we have successfully reintroduced over fifty western lowland gorillas. Jeanne Peterson Email Website   The Lowes Syndrome Trust Lorrain Thomas - 020 8458 6791 Email Website The Meningitis Trust The Meningitis Trust helps around 20,000 people each year, supporting anyone affected by this life-changing disease through its free professional aftercare and support services. These include a freephone 24-hour nurse-led helpline (0800 028 18 28), counselling, financial support grants, home visits and one-to-one contacts. Email Website WaterAid WaterAid's mission is to overcome poverty by enabling the world's poorest people to gain access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene education. Charlotte Biddle - 0845 6000 433 Email Website Whizz-Kidz Whizz-Kidz changes disabled children's lives - literally overnight. By providing them with customised mobility equipment, training and advice, we actually give them something much more important. We give them the independence to live a life of freedom at home, at school and at play; the independence to be themselves. Events Hotline: 0207 233 9696 Email Website   Wish Upon A Star Tel: 0115 979 1720 / 07717 252 882 Email Website   Yorkshire Cancer Reseach Emma Young - 01423 877210 Email Website

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