Robin Hood Half Marathon and Mini Marathon 2025

Organised by Nottingham Trent University

We are delighted to be a Charity Partner for the Robin Hood Half Marathon 2025. Fundraise for us or sponsor an NTU runner and support the ground-breaking work of Nottingham Trent University’s John van Geest Cancer Research Centre.

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The John van Geest Cancer Research Centre (JvGCRC) at Nottingham Trent University houses a team of world-class scientists who are working hard to change the impact that cancer has on our lives. Specialising in blood cancers as well as colorectal, pancreatic and brain tumours, your kind donations help to us to:

- Diagnose cancer better

- Predict how it will respond to treatment

- Develop ways of boosting the immune system to fight it

Why support this life changing work?

The presence of cancer in our lives might remain inevitable — but the scale and devastation of its impact need not be.

Thanks to dedicated research hubs like the JvGCRC, breakthroughs are being found. Our 30-strong team of researchers have:

- Achieved a better insight into how prostate cancer spreads around the body

- Identified the genes and proteins that help us to determine which therapies patients with acute leukaemia and with breast cancer will benefit from

- Created new vaccines to target prostate cancer and the deadliest forms of brain tumours

- Co-developed a new blood test that could support clinicians in the early diagnosis of prostate cancer, mitigating the need for invasive biopsies

Many, if not all of us reading this will have family, friends and colleagues who have faced down the challenge of a cancer diagnosis and the treatment that follows. Survival rates have improved considerably as the result of medical research, but we urgently need these improvements to continue (Matt, 2024 Robin Hood Half Marathon Fundraiser)

You can find out more about The John Van Geest Cancer Research Centre here.

Fundraise for the John van Geest Cancer Research Centre

Our work hinges on your generosity. If you would like to help continue this life-changing work by fundraising for The John van Geest Cancer Research Centre in the 2025 Robin Hood Half Marathon please get in touch at 'giving@ntu.ac.uk'.

Image: Some of the 2024 Half and Mini marathon team