Alcohol Change UK is the national charity committed to reducing the harm caused by alcohol and supporting healthier, happier lives. We fund vital research, campaign for evidence informed policy, and provide information, advice and digital tools that help people make informed choices about drinking. We also work to shift the culture around alcohol and reduce stigma. By running with us you help create lasting change across the UK. Together we are building a future free from alcohol harm.
Alder Hey Children’s Charity is an independent charity which supports Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust to make a difference for the 450,000 children and young people who use the hospital’s services every year. Since 2013, over £82 million has been raised to support patients and their families through our pillars of Equipment, Research, Innovation and Education, Campus and Community, Magic and Advocacy. Together, we work to build brighter, happier, healthier and fairer futures for all children and young people.
Alzheimer’s Research UK is the UK’s leading dementia research charity. We’re working to revolutionise the way we treat, diagnose and prevent dementia. But we will not stop there. With your support, we will keep going until every person is free from the heartbreak of dementia. We exist for a cure.
We’re the 10 million people living with arthritis in the UK. The carers, researchers and healthcare professionals. The family, friends and fundraisers. United by a clear vision: a future free from arthritis. One in which no one is limited by the pain, fatigue and isolation that arthritis can cause.
We’re Asthma + Lung UK and we’re here to lead the battle for breath. We believe that everyone should have the right to breathe easy - regardless of income, age, ethnicity, gender, or background. Around 12 million people in the UK will develop a lung condition during their lifetime. We’re determined to bring about a revolution in treatment and support, so everyone can live their best lives. This is our battle for breath. Join us.
Benefit Mankind is a lifeline for orphans across the world, providing food, education, safe shelter, and the love every child deserves. In places where hope is scarce, we restore dignity and build brighter futures. These children have lost everything, yet through your support, they gain a family, a future and a chance to smile again.
Brain tumours kill more children and adults under the age of 40 than any other cancer, yet just 1% of the national spend on cancer research has been allocated to this devastating disease. We are the only national charity in the UK focused on finding a cure for all types of brain tumours through campaigning to increase the national investment in brain tumour research to £35 million per year, while fundraising to create a network of seven sustainable Brain Tumour Research Centres of Excellence across the UK.
We’re the Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM) and we’re taking a stand against suicide. That means standing against feeling hopeless, standing up to stereotypes and standing together to show life is always worth living.
Our vision: A future in which nobody believes suicide is their only option.
Our mission: To help people end their misery not their lives.
Childflight is a charity providing children with life limiting or life debilitating illnesses, along with their family, a holiday of a lifetime to Florida. We also do an annual Santa flight for socially deserving children and provide flight costs for medical treatment abroad, if it is not available in the UK. Childflight is run entirely by volunteers.
At Crohn’s & Colitis UK, we’re in your corner. Fighting for faster diagnosis, better treatments and, ultimately, a cure, so everyone with Crohn’s or Colitis can live well. Around 1 in 120 people in the UK have Crohn’s or Colitis, navigating life with an unpredictable condition that could flare up at any time. The impact can be devastating: plans turned upside down; work and education on hold; relationships and wellbeing under strain; dreams for the future paused
Deafblind UK is a national charity dedicated to supporting the estimated 450,000 people affected by sight and hearing loss in the UK. We believe that every person who is deafblind should be able to live the life they want, empowered through holistic care and assistance, pioneering research, transformative education, influential advocacy, and innovative technology integration. By running for Deafblind UK, you will be ensuring that everyone facing sight and hearing loss has the support they need.
We're Dementia UK: the specialist dementia nursing charity. Our nurses provide life-changing support for families living with dementia. We need your help to grow the number of nurses so no one faces dementia alone.
Epilepsy Action is a leading UK charity supporting everyone affected by epilepsy. The organisation provides trusted information, a free helpline, community support, and campaigns for better care and understanding across the UK. With a mission to create a world without limits for people with epilepsy, Epilepsy Action helps over a million people each year through its services and resources.
Europia empowers Central and Eastern European migrants across Greater Manchester to navigate life in the UK with confidence. Since 2008, we have provided advice, wellbeing support and community programmes that help people feel connected and included. Our current work includes dedicated support for the Ukrainian community, offering advice, wellbeing activities and safe spaces for connection. Funds raised help us continue providing vital support to those rebuilding their lives here in Greater Manchester.
Freedom from Torture is dedicated to healing and protecting people who have survived torture. We stand with survivors, providing therapy and support, and fighting for change together. We provide therapies to improve physical and mental health, we medically document torture and we offer legal and welfare help. We fight to hold torturing states to account and we campaign for fairer treatment of survivors in the UK. Therapeutic, creative and social groups offer activities from gardening and breadmaking to football and chess.
Halton Haven Hospice provides specialist palliative care and support for people with life-limiting illnesses across Halton. Offering compassionate, holistic care, the hospice supports patients and their families both in its inpatient unit and through community services. Dedicated to dignity, comfort, and quality of life, Halton Haven Hospice relies on fundraising and community support to continue delivering its vital services free of charge.
It’s Time was founded from lived experience, knowing firsthand the impact of losing a parent as a young adult. 1 in 7 people will face this life-changing loss by the age of 30, yet the challenges that come with it are often overlooked. We created It’s Time to offer connection, understanding, and support through peer support, grief education, and free group therapy, helping young adults navigate grief, find community, and rebuild hope for the future.
Kidney Care UK is the leading kidney patient support charity in the UK, dedicated to improving the lives of people affected by kidney disease. For 50 years, we've provided practical, emotional and financial support to thousands of patients and their families. From advocacy and grants to counselling and peer support, we work to ensure no one faces kidney disease alone. We’re committed to raising awareness, improving care and giving patients a stronger voice across the UK.
Join Team Macmillan for the Manchester Marathon 2026 and make a difference for the 3.5
people living with cancer in the UK. In return, you’ll receive:
• A FREE Team Macmillan jersey
• Access to exclusive training plans
• Fundraising plans and top tips!
With 98% of our vital work funded by donations, your support enables us to be there
for people when they need us most.
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Mental health is one of the most important foundations for a healthy and long life. We want to build a society with good mental health where everybody can thrive.
Make-A-Wish UK is part of a global movement creating life-changing wishes. Our only goal is to give children facing critical illness the chance to dream big even when they might not have long to live. No matter what the future holds, we create lasting memories families will treasure forever.
Manchester Foundation Trust Charity raises funds to support Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust’s family of ten hospitals, which includes Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital, Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester Royal Infirmary and Saint Mary’s Hospital. Our patients are at the heart of everything we do. We raise funds to make a difference for patients, young and old, cared for in hospitals by making sure that they receive the very best treatment in the very best facilities.
Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) delivers emergency medical care where it’s needed most. Whether it’s conflict zones, natural disasters, or disease outbreaks, MSF teams race to save lives. Independent and impartial, MSF helps people regardless of race, religion, or politics, by providing both basic and complex medical care. MSF’s goal is to relieve suffering, reduce the spread of diseases, improve access to healthcare and save lives.
The MND Association is the leading charity in England, Wales and Northern Ireland focused on funding research, improving access to care and campaigning for people living with or affected by MND. We fund and promote research that leads to new understanding, treatments and brings us closer to a cure. We campaign and raise awareness so the needs of people with MND are recognised and addressed by wider society. People with MND, their families and carers are at the heart of everything we do.
Moya Cole Hospice (formerly St Ann’s Hospice) provides specialist care for those with life-limiting illnesses in Greater Manchester. Our vital care relies on generous supporters.
Mustard Tree has been combatting poverty and preventing homelessness across Greater Manchester for over 30 years. We provide frontline services to our community through our Food Club, Community Shop, 1-1 support, advocacy, and hardship gifting. These frontline services run alongside our pathways out of poverty including The Freedom Project, vocational courses, English provision and creative classes. This holistic, wraparound approach enables service-users to increase their long-term stability and break out of the cycle of poverty.
We produce trusted information all about mental health problems. We support people through our helplines and online Side by Side community. We campaign with the government to get a better deal on mental health. And we speak out when something isn’t right, demanding mental health support respects our rights. There’s so much we do – and we couldn’t do it without you, so thank you.
People with a learning disability have long been discriminated against and disproportionately affected by cuts to government funding. We operate around 650 services, and provide personal support to 4,000 people each year.
Our vision is for the UK to be the best place in the world for people with a learning disability to live happy and healthy lives. We do this by: Providing services, Campaigning, Empowering people to create change in their communities, Helping people to gain employment, Offering people information and advice, Researching into important issues
The North West Air Ambulance Charity’s helicopters and critical care vehicles operate 365 days a year. Their highly skilled doctors and critical care paramedics on board provide enhanced pre-hospital care to patients across the entire North West region each year – an area covering 5,500 square miles and over 8 million people.
The charity is not part of the NHS and doesn’t receive any government funding. They rely completely on public and corporate donations to carry on saving lives.
Oxfam is a global community of people who believe in a kinder, and radically better world, where everyone has the power to thrive not just survive. We believe we can overcome poverty by fighting the injustices and inequalities that fuel it.
Pancreatic cancer is the deadliest common cancer. More than half of people die within three months of diagnosis. When you fundraise with us, you’re supporting vital, world-leading research. You’re ensuring our nurses are there to take more calls. And you’re driving our campaigns to make sure pancreatic cancer gets the attention it deserves. You’re giving people more than hope to hold onto.
We’re Parkinson’s UK, the charity that’s here to support every Parkinson’s journey. Every step of the way.
Place2Be is the UK's leading provider of school-based children's mental health services, and our mission is to improve the mental wellbeing and prospects of children, their families and school communities. We reach nearly 300,000 children and young people in around 500 partner schools, working with pupils, families, and staff in a whole-school approach. We have been instrumental in contributing to the breakdown of stigma of mental health within schools and in advocating for the integration of mental health support into the school environment.
1 in 8 men will get prostate cancer, and the risk is double for Black men. Run for us to give thousands of dads, partners, brothers and mates the power to navigate this disease. You’ll help fund lifesaving research and save men’s lives.
When a child has a serious illness, family life is turned upside down and time becomes more precious than ever. Rainbow Trust pairs each family with an expert Family Support Worker who enables them to make the most of time together, giving them practical and emotional support, whenever they need it, for as long as is needed.
Refuge is the country’s largest provider of specialist domestic abuse services for women and their children and opened the world’s first safe house in 1971. We now provide a range of services including but not limited to; safe house refuges for survivors and their children, a National Domestic Abuse Helpline which is available 24/7 365 days of the year for anyone experiencing or worried about someone experiencing domestic abuse, community outreach services, and culturally specific services..
Join Rethink Mental Illness at the Manchester Marathon and help change lives! We’re working tirelessly to transform mental health support. By joining Team Rethink you’ll empower people living with mental illness to get the care, respect, and opportunities they deserve. Every step raises awareness and vital funds for advocacy, crisis support, and life-changing services. Together, we’re breaking stigma and building a future where no one faces mental illness alone. Run for Rethink and you will run for change!
Run for Charity work with thousands of charities all over the UK. If you have a particular cause you'd like to run for, there is a good chance they are here, and they would love your support!
Samaritans is the only emotional support service open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, to anyone across the UK and Ireland. Every year we receive over 5 million calls for help, across our 201 branches. When people get in touch, we listen – in confidence and without judgement. Whether it’s online, over the phone or face-to-face, we give people the space and time to work through their problems in their own way.
We work to support anyone affected by pregnancy loss or the death of a baby. We also carry out vital work to improve maternity safety through targeted research, campaigning for change, working with government and reducing inequalities in healthcare to save babies' lives. Our vision is for a world where fewer babies die and when a baby does die anyone affected receives the best possible care and support for as long as they need.
At Sense we believe no one, no matter how complex their disabilities, should be left out of life. Our goal is to support ten times more people living with complex disabilities by 2026
From 1966 to this day, Shelter believes home is everything and exists to defend the right to a safe home. Our aim is to bring an end to the devastating impact the housing emergency has on people and communities. We deliver this by campaigning tirelessly to fight the devastating impact the housing emergency has on people and society, providing free, expert housing advice to people no matter their situation, and through fundraising.
Social Bite is a charity & social business on a mission to end homelessness. We break the cycle of homelessness by providing free food, supported employment opportunities, and innovative housing solutions for people experiencing homelessness.
The Stroke Association is the leading UK charity providing lifelong support for all stroke survivors and their families. Surviving a stroke is just the start of a long and gruelling recovery journey. With the right support, recovery is possible. Each year, we provide tailored support to tens of thousands of stroke survivors, fund vital scientific research and campaign to secure the best care and support for everyone affected by stroke.
Sue Ryder is a national charity providing expert palliative care and bereavement support across the UK. We are here to make sure everyone approaching the end of their life or living with grief can access the support they need. There is no one size fits all when it comes to how we cope and the help we need, but with Sue Ryder’s support, no one has to face dying or grief alone. We are there when it matters.
The Bobby Colleran Trust is a Liverpool-based charity dedicated to preventing child road deaths and supporting families affected by tragic loss. Inspired by Bobby’s story, the Trust delivers engaging road safety education programmes to schools and community groups, empowering children to make safer choices. Through its Take-Care-for-Bobby initiative, the charity also provides funded mental health counselling for children experiencing traumatic bereavement, helping families build resilience, understanding and hope for the future. Working across Merseyside and beyond in partnership with schools.
The Brain Charity supports people living with all neurological conditions and neurodivergence to live longer, healthier, happier lives. There are over 600 neurological conditions, which can impact anyone, at any stage of life, often bringing challenges that affect wellbeing, independence and everyday life in 1 in 6 people nationally. We champion neurodiversity and provide practical help, emotional support and social activities for anyone with a neurological condition, no matter how common or rare, and their families, friends and carers.
A future of hope and happiness belongs to every teen. But right now, too many are left struggling, with help only offered at crisis point. The Children’s Society provides early help, so no teen has to face the future alone.
Wigan and Leigh Hospice provide specialist end-of-life care, and a wide range of support services, to over 1,200 people who are living with a life-limiting illness in the Wigan Borough. Many patients are cared for in their own homes, although we also care for people living in care homes and in our In-Patient Unit.
At Target Ovarian Cancer, we target what’s important to stop ovarian cancer devastating lives. We're the only ovarian cancer charity working across all four nations of the UK. We work with everyone affected by ovarian cancer and health professionals to ensure we target the areas that matter most for them.
At The Tor-Rox Foundation, we believe that people living with cancer deserve more than just medical treatment. Our mission is to improve the quality of life for those facing a cancer diagnosis and treatment by funding grants to access personalised fitness programmes that aid in recovery, reduce treatment side effects, and promote overall health and resilience.
We’re Tommy’s: a charity that exists to stop the heartbreak and devastation of baby loss and make pregnancy and birth safe – for everyone. Bringing together a network of researchers, healthcare professionals and passionate supporters, Tommy’s is a community.
Three Wishes is the official charity of Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. We fund projects that go beyond NHS provision, enhancing patient care through specialist equipment, staff development and more welcoming, supportive environments. With the generosity of our community, we help create spaces and experiences that bring comfort, dignity and reassurance to patients and families when they need it most.
Young Lives vs Cancer help children and young people with cancer and their families navigate the emotional and practical impact of cancer. They stop at nothing to make their voices heard and their unique needs understood, so they can get the right care and support at the right time.