Friends of Colleen
Project Sunshine: Running for Colleen raising funds for The Running Charity
Fundraising for The Running Charity
Story
Who We Are
A group of friends from across the globe working to raise funds and awareness for The Running Charity in honor of our dear friend Colleen Lloyd. We want to raise money and support The Running Charity to improve the lives of 16-25 year olds who are homeless or at risk of homelessness across the UK.
Who Was Colleen?
Colleen was a dear friend to us, who brought sunshine and joy into our lives with her great personality, energy and smile.
She had a natural ability to bring people together and a passionate desire to travel and experience different cultures. Her adventurous and outgoing spirit enriched all of our lives and her sudden passing 6 years ago had a deep impact on all of us.
We wanted to honor her memory by raising funds to support a charity we know she would love and be passionate about.
Why We’re A Match With The Running Charity
Colleen was an avid runner and was always there to support us through our challenges and hard times. Like The Running Charity.
The Running Charity uses personal and fitness development plans to support young people to build resilience, confidence and self-esteem through personal and fitness development plans.
Homelessness can happen at any time and to anyone. And when it happens to a young person it can affect them for the rest of their life. At least 83,000 young people in the UK are homeless right now and, with homeless young people almost twice as likely to die as their non-homeless peers, there is an urgent need to push for change.
During 2018, The Running Charity supported over 1,000 young people affected by or at risk of homelessness. Your support can help grow the number of young people supported by their programmes and to expand to additional locations across the UK.
Please visit their website at www.therunningcharity.org to learn more!
What We Will Do - Run for Colleen
Colleen was from West Chester, Pennsylvania and had moved to London, UK for the last years of her life. It's 5,728km from West Chester to London and so in 2020, we are collectively going to run that distance (and more!) and raise money for The Running Charity. We're hoping you'll sponsor us to run that distance and help us raise an amazing £5,000 for The Running Charity
We've already got 18 people running 8,400km and are looking for more to sign up! We've surpassed our 5,728km target and are now focused on actually doing the running :)
The people running in our group are:
150km - Tamara D
250km - Katy C
500km - Cibelle M, Erica B, Tamina P, Dave P, Adrian S, Erika S, Ryan R, Rachel M, Jane M, Lindsay L, Adam W, Kristen R, Lauren J, Alex C, Elizabeth M, Rachelle H
If you want to pledge to run a certain number of km's (or miles!) for Colleen, please get in touch!
And please donate to support our runners, wherever they (or you) are in the world!