Charities
Run for charity
Make a difference and run for charity. Taking part in a running event for charity is one of the best ways to boost your training and support a worthy cause. If you are going to raise money for one of the charities people contact them for a support pack – details below.
Charities depend on the goodwill and effort of their supporters to survive, so make your race day a true cause for celebration by choosing to run and raise sponsorship money for one of the many worthy causes.
The Run 09 - Northamptonshire has four partner charities – MacMillan Cancer Support, SCOPE, Northamptonshire Community Foundation and the Northamptonshire Champions Fund – that we’d like to encourage you to raise money for, but we’ve also provided links to a much wider range of charitable good causes that would be more than happy to have you running for them.
Our online entry system allows you make a donation to the charities listed below.
Macmillan Cancer Support
Macmillan Cancer Support improves the lives of people affected by cancer. One in three of us will get cancer. We are all affected by cancer. We can all help. We are Macmillan. As treatments improve, more and more people are living with cancer in their daily lives. This means they need more than medical help, they also need practical, emotional and financial support.
We are a source of support - helping with all the things that people affected by cancer want and need. It’s not only patients who live with cancer, so we also help carers, families and communities. We guide people through the system, supporting them every step of the way. We fund nurses and other specialist health care professionals and build cancer care centres. But we give so much more than medical help. People need practical support at home, so we provide anything from some precious time off for a carer, to a lift to hospital. People need emotional support, so we listen, advise and share information though our CancerLine, website, support groups and trained professionals. People need financial help to cope with the extra costs cancer can bring, so we give benefits advice, and grants for anything from heating bills to travel costs. Together we listen, we learn, we act to help people live with cancer.
To find out more about what Macmillan visit: www.macmillan.org.uk
For a pack please contact: Lisa Donald - email: [email protected]
Scope
Scope is a leading disability charity, with a proud tradition of investing in the lives of disabled people. Scope’s vision is that disabled people are valued and have the same human and civil rights as everyone else.
Disabled children and adults, especially those with complex impairments, are one of the most socially excluded groups in society. They face multiple barriers which make it difficult for them to participate in their community and achieve their full potential. Scope aims to break down these barriers through our campaigning activities and innovative projects.
Scope provides a range of support services and projects - including early years, independent living, education and employment services - to meet the needs of over 20,000 disabled people and their families each year, at every stage of their lives.
Our projects offer opportunities for empowerment and enable disabled children and adults to have choice and control over their everyday lives. Scope believes that disabled people should make their own decisions about how they want to live, and what they want to achieve in their own lives, in order to gain as much control and independence as possible. Moreover, all of Scope’s activities are led by disabled people - their lived experiences are at the heart of everything we do.
To find out more about Scope visit: www.scope.org.uk
For a pack please contact: [email protected]
Northamptonshire Community Foundation
Did you know that you can support more than just one local charity by fundraising for Northamptonshire Community Foundation? By supporting the Foundation you are helping hundreds of community groups and projects, all here in Northamptonshire.
Your money will be used to create safer, stronger communities and you will be helping us support all kinds of much needed local projects – healthy eating and environmental projects, schemes for adults and children with disabilities, support groups for elderly and isolated people, sporting activities … and much more.
At the Foundation we also look after the Northamptonshire Champions Fund - which supports local athletes of excellence in the lead up to the 2012 Olympics, both Paralympians and Olympians.
To find out more about Northamptonshire Community Foundation visit: www.ncf.uk.com
For a pack please contact: Jessica Pilkington - email:[email protected]
Northamptonshire Champions Fund
The Northamptonshire Sport Champions Fund is a new bursary scheme designed to support Northamptonshire’s emerging sports stars. The county’s top sporting performers will receive financial support to help them make the most of their talent. Northamptonshire Sport has worked with the Northamptonshire Community Foundation and the county 2012 Steering Group to establish the Fund. Fund raising is on going but so far contributions have been made from a number of local authorities, Ability Northamptonshire and private sector funding.
The Champions Fund aims to:
- Support our talented athletes, in Olympic and non Olympic sports
- Access private sponsorship as well as public sector funding
- Other opportunities pursued including sports medicine etc
- Help those with talent to act as Ambassadors for sport visiting schools, running coaching sessions etc
To find out more about the Northamptonshire Champions Fund visit: www.northamptonshiresport.org
Warwickshire & Northamptonshire Air Ambulance
The Warwickshire & Northamptonshire Air Ambulance (WNAA) was established in October 2003 to provide an emergency medical service for the heart of England including Warwickshire, Northamptonshire and Milton Keynes. Prior to this, the region had relied on older, slower aircraft with limited space for onboard patient treatment. The new service shifted the emphasis from transporting casualties to hospital, to recognising the need to get senior Doctors and Consultants to the scene of incidents as quickly as possible, providing lifesaving treatment and medication at the scene and en-route to hospital.
The WNAA is one of only three services outside of London to routinely carry a Doctor on board. Our primary response area is the 2000 square miles of Coventry, Warwickshire, Northamptonshire, Milton Keynes and some of the key border areas like Market Harborough, Banbury and Solihull. However, we also help out our neighbours under a mutual aid agreement, in Birmingham, the West Midlands, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Leicestershire, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire.
The service has 12 Doctors, 12 Paramedics & 3 Pilots which service a population of around 1.1 million people. Based at Coventry Airport, in the three years it has been operating, it has flown over 5500 missions. With an ever-increasing callout rate of between 120 and 150 callouts per month, the WNAA is the busiest air ambulance in the UK.
To find out more about the Warwickshire & Northamptonshire Air Ambulance Northamptonshire visit: www.wnaa.co.uk
For a pack please contact: Tracy Grunwell - email:[email protected]