Charities

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.

Cambridge Rape Crisis Centre offers specialist emotional, therapeutic and advocacy support to local women and girls who have been subjected to sexual violence and abuse, at any time in their lives. Our crucial work is only possible thanks to our incredible supporters. By running with CRCC you join us in ensuring that no woman or girl has to cope alone with the impacts of sexual violence.

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.

We’re here for anyone with cancer and their family and friends, whatever kind of cancer, and whatever stage they’re at. We help people take back control when cancer turns life upside down, with professional support for anything from treatment side effects to money worries. All our support is free, no appointment or referral is needed and we’re here for you, as long as you need us.

CamSight supports around 2,000 blind and partially sighted people across Cambridgeshire each year. We provide free assistance with financial matters, accessibility, equipment, and technology, and run inclusive activities and peer support groups. We also offer emotional support and counselling sessions.

Running for CamSight means that whatever sight loss challenges people face, we will be here to help.

Founded in Cambridge in 2013, Petals provide free, specialist counselling to parents who experience the devastation of pregnancy or baby loss.

Demand for our service has never been higher and heartbreakingly we are unable to support everyone who needs us – running for Petals help us support more bereaved parents in their time of need.

Royal Papworth Charity funds projects at Royal Papworth Hospital “to bring tomorrow’s treatments to today’s patients.”

By prioritising current funding, the charity ensures the hospital remains at the forefront of international heart and lung disease research. Grants from Royal Papworth Charity help the hospital treat life-threatening conditions and innovate new treatments for patients both now and in the future.