Love Running is an incredible initiative that helps ordinary people do extraordinary things. It’s about engaging with our communities, making a difference to people’s lives, and doing ourselves some good while we’re at it.

One of the major aims of Love Running is to raise a significant amount of finance and give it away to some situations of real need. We literally want to see love running – love running through our communities, love running to the oppressed and the exploited, love running into situations of suffering and despair.

We’ve chosen three distinct areas of focus - those in poverty, those suffering oppression and those in need and all the money raised will be split equally between these three areas:

Love Running to those in Poverty

For a second year, Love Running is once again going to be supporting the work of World Vision in Zimbabwe.

We feel this to be a situation of extreme urgency, and want to do something that will literally save lives - particularly those of children - in the grip of an ongoing cholera epidemic and unprecedented famine, suffering and misery.

It's one of the most desperate situations in the world right now, and we have an opportunity to partner with the largest development and aid organisation working in the country.

Visit the World Vision website for more information.

Love Running to those suffering Oppression

It is estimated that there are 12.3 million people in forced labour worldwide, of which 2.4 million are the result of human trafficking. That's slavery, to you and me.

The modern slave trade is now the second largest source of illegal income worldwide, just behind drug trafficking. Shockingly, an estimated 1.2 million of those trafficked each year are children.

We're teaming up with Stop the Traffik to take a stand against this injustice and help fund programmes of education, advocacy and protection - particularly for the most at risk women and children.

Visit the Stop the Traffik website for more information.

 

Love Running to those in Need

As well as giving to situations of need around the world, we feel strongly that we want to extend a hand to those in need in our very own city.  We're choosing a group of three local Bristol charities that work with some of the most desperate situations in the city, involving homelessness, social care and the disadvantaged.