Charities

Do something amazing and be part of the incredible team of runners who raise more than half a million pounds for charity each year at the TTP Cambridge Half Marathon. Enter with one of our official charity partners, receive extra support and raise vital funds while you run.

Charity entries are open now, so sign up now and secure your place. Scroll down to see the range of amazing national and local charities we work with and visit their sites to sign up.

 

Headline Charity Partner

Alzheimer’s Research UK is the charity leading the search for a cure for dementia, and we will not stop until we’ve found one. Through research, we will keep people connected to their families, their worlds and themselves for longer.

We stand for everyone affected by dementia. We stand for their families and loved ones. We stand for a cure.

National Charity Partners

 

We’re the only ones fighting over 200 cancers, including the 1 that matters most to you. Our life-saving work is funded entirely by the generosity of our supporters, so every step we make towards beating cancer relies on every pound, and every runner.

Thanks to our amazing supporters, survival rates across all forms of cancer have doubled in the last 40 years, but we can’t stop there. Our ambition is to accelerate progress and see three quarters of patients surviving cancer within the next 20 years.

 

 

There’s around 3 million people living with cancer in the UK today, and more than 360,000 are diagnosed every year.

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.

Race for a reason and help us support everyone affected by cancer. Together, we can make a difference.

 

 

We are the UK’s leading kidney patient support charity, providing practical, financial, and emotional support for kidney patients and their families and campaigning to improve care services across the UK.

Everything we do is about ensuring that the patient voice is heard. From making a difference to health services and patient care to working in partnership to fund patient-centred research, we believe no one should face kidney disease alone.

 

 

Addenbrooke’s Charitable Trust (ACT) is the charity for Addenbrooke’s and the Rosie hospitals dedicated to making patient care even better.

Thanks to our amazing supporters, Addenbrooke’s and the Rosie hospitals can provide a level of patient care beyond that which can be delivered by NHS funding alone. Charitable donations fund high-tech equipment, specialist staff, extra comforts and vital research to find potential cures and help save lives locally, nationally and worldwide.

 

 

Preventing young sudden cardiac deaths through awareness, screening and research, and supporting affected families.

 

 

Supporting & Local Charity Partners

 

Cambridge Rape Crisis Centre is the local sexual violence charity, offering specialist support to women and girls impacted by sexual violence. Our work is only possible thanks to our incredible supporters. Running with CRCC funds life-changing support at a time when more survivors are reaching out to us than ever.

 

 

CPSL Mind supports local people with mental health challenges across Cambridgeshire, Peterborough and South Lincolnshire. Last year we provided direct mental health support to more than 4,800 local people.

Services include: crisis support, peer support groups, 121 support, community development, Good Mood cafes and mental health training. We promote positive wellbeing and campaign against the stigma faced by so many.

 

 

A small, family run, Cambridge based charity supporting people affected by cancer by providing donated gifts including breaks in holiday cottages; restaurant meals; hotel stays and tickets for attractions.

Every penny you raise goes directly to help us provide more gifts.

For every £100 you raise we can provide over £300 worth of gifts giving people ‘Something To Look Forward To’.

 

 

We’re the RSPCA, the oldest and largest animal welfare charity in the world.

We believe that animal welfare is everyone’s welfare, and that all animals deserve our kindness.

For 200 years we’ve been changing minds, laws, industries and lives to create a better world for animals and people – with you by our side.

 

 

Jimmy’s is a community-based charity with the belief that no-one should have to sleep rough in Cambridge.We provide safe places that people can call home. From emergency accommodation, longer term care at our multiple needs centre and in supported houses and modular homes. We support people from street floor to their own front door.

 

 

We are the charity for Cambridgeshire, working towards a better quality of life for people across the county. We identify the most critical needs of local communities, raise funds and award grants to local charity and community projects that address those needs.

Join our team to run for your community.

 

 

Supporting people in Cambridgeshire living with an advanced serious illness or other life-limiting condition and those who need end of life care. Each year we care for around 3,600 patients at our Hospice in Cambridge, the Alan Hudson Day Treatment Centre in Wisbech and across the Fens, in patients’ homes.


 

 

Gold Bond Charities

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

ARE YOU A CHARITY INTERESTED IN GETTING INVOLVED?

If you’re a charity that would like to hear more about the opportunity to be associated with the TTP Cambridge Half Marathon we would like to hear from you.

 

 

Official Fundraising Platform Partner

 

GivenGain is our official fundraising platform for the event. A Foundation themselves, they’re unique in not making a profit out of donations, and we believe that’s the right way to do it. Set up your GivenGain fundraising page today, to ensure 100% of the money you raise is going to the right place.