ON HUMAN RIGHTS DAY this year, One Run Global are uniting thousands of people from 195 countries as they run, walk or move their body for one hour to raise funds to end child discrimination. Whether it’s running a 10k ...
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Emdad Rahman FOOD POVERTY within the UK is a rising crisis, with one in five people now struggling to put food on the table. One and a half million Britons have reported not eating for a whole day because they have ...
Read More »Rugby League aims for most inclusive World Cup ever
NEXT YEAR sees the Rugby League World Cup come to the UK – and organisers are aiming to make the event, which happens every four years, a spectacular occasion, with something for everyone. Three tournaments will run alongside each other ...
Read More »National Literacy Trust issues #FitforLit challenge
THIS WEEK SEES the National Literacy Trust challenge families to take part in a #FitForLit challenge to raise money for the Trust. The charity works to improve the literacy and overall learning of disadvantaged children – work that has become ...
Read More »Victoria Park walk and picnic for orphans is great success
Maruf Ahmed THE WHITECHAPEL-BASED Lonely Orphans charity team arranged a family charity walk and picnic for families to enjoy being outdoors and also to help raise awareness of the work being carried out to support orphans. The two kilometre walk ...
Read More »Re-live the 80s and help lung cancer charity
THE ROY CASTLE Lung Cancer Foundation is organising a Retro Running Series which will take place throughout 2020. The Series offers a chance to re-live your favourite decades, to do a bit of healthy running – and to help support ...
Read More »Where’s Wally? runners take over Olympic Park
Emdad Rahman A FANTASTIC COLLECTION of runners participated in the 2020 “Where’s Wally?” fun run held in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park on Sunday, 15th March. Given the threat of the Corona Virus, runners were also given the opportunity to ...
Read More »Jungle Cry goes down a storm in Carmarthenshire
IT WAS A standing ovation forBollywood Hollywood’s new rugby biopic Jungle Cry at its official screening in Wales – the home of rugby – this week. Jungle Cry tells the story of one of the most unusual – and bravest ...
Read More »“Where’s Wally?” fun run heads for Olympic Park
HUNDREDS OF runners, families and book lovers will dress up as the popular children’s book character Wally, from the Where’s Wally? books next Sunday, 15th March. They will be running, jogging or walking to raise money for the National Literacy ...
Read More »Twenty Lonely Orphan runners run The Big Half
Emdad Rahman THE BETHNAL GREEN-BASED Lonely Orphans charity took to the roads today – Sunday, 1st March – to raise awareness and much needed funds for Uyghur orphans. They joined more than 16,000 runners on the streets of the British ...
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