Watermead run

WREAKE VALLEY Rotary Club is holding its annual Watermead Charity Challenge Run on Tuesday, July 4.

There will be a 5K electronic chiptimed run and a 3K fun run which will not be an electronic chip-timed event.

The 5K run entry fee for affiliated running club members is £15, and for non-affiliated running club members is £17 until May 31.

After that date, the entry fees will be increased to £18 and £20 respectively.

The 3K fun run entry fee is a flat rate of £10.

Online entry is via the event entry website www.evententry.co.uk. Scroll down for Watermead Challenge Run where full details and how to enter can be found. The event is open for entry from March 1.

Watermead Park currently charges their usual fee of £2.50 per car, which would be payable on the night.

Over the past ten years, our increasingly popular charity run has raised over £30,000. Charities to benefit over this time include the following:

Birstall BAGs (Cancer support)

Alex's Wish (Mountsorrel based charity Supporting Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy)

MDNA (Motor Neurone Disease)

Leicester Children's Holiday Homes

Dementia UK

Jade's Retreat (Birstall Cancer support)

Prostaid

Rainbows Hospice for children and young people

Soar Valley Food Bank

Defibrillator for Watermead Park

Sunday morning Park Runs

Mosaic 1898 (support for disabled people). We helped provide a lift for their canal narrowboat, based at Birstall.

Shelter Box (providing essential items to support families in various disaster areas around the world - war in Ukraine, earthquakes in Turkey and Syria).

Rotary International is a truly worldwide charitable organisation, and supports people in need around the world, so when humanitarian situations arise, individual clubs and our central organisation will invariably offer financial and/or practical support where possible.

We look forward to welcoming you to our event and helping us to once again raise as much money as we can to enable us to distribute to various charities so get your running gear out and sign up for what promises to be a great event once again.

If anyone has a close connection with a charity or knows someone who has and would like to enquire as to whether we might be able to offer our support, then please contact us via our club website www.wreakevalleyrotary.org.uk

Also, if there is a local company that would like to sponsor this annual event, then we would be delighted to talk to you. Again, contact can be made via our website.

From Wreake Valley Rotary Club