The North East Learning Trust is hosting a fun run for all staff and their friends and families to raise money for a north east based cancer charity, on Saturday 30 June 2018 at 10am.

The fun run, based at The Academy at Shotton Hall in Peterlee, will include a 1.5k, 3k and a 4.5k run. There will also be other fun activities on site as well as refreshments.

Buy tickets or donate

Minimum ticket prices are £5 for adults and £2 for children, but please feel free to give what you can afford per ticket or please feel free to just donate to the cause.

Please comment in your donation how many of each ticket you would like to purchase as well as your name and school. Tickets will be distributed in school. Any problems or queries please email zara.taylor@nelt.co.uk

About the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation

The Sir Bobby Robson Foundation funds projects within the Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that directly benefits cancer patients from across north east England and Cumbria – and which also contribute significantly to international research into the disease.

Sir Bobby launched his Foundation in 2008 after a request for help from his oncologist Professor Ruth Plummer who was treating Sir Bobby as he faced cancer for the fifth – and what he knew would be the final time. She needed to raise £500,000 to equip a new cancer drug trials centre and asked him if he knew anyone who might like to donate.

Sir Bobby responded by launching a charity to get the money she needed. The reaction to his appeal for help was incredible and just seven weeks after the Foundation launched Professor Plummer had the £500,000 she needed. In February 2009, Sir Bobby officially opened the Sir Bobby Robson Cancer Trials Research Centre.

Sir Bobby said he would give up a year of his life to the charity. In fact he became so passionate about it that, despite being very ill, he spent his last 18 months doing all he could to raise funds to help others facing cancer. He said he hoped it would become his legacy.

Lady Elsie, his three sons Paul, Andrew and Mark, trustees, the football community and committed Patrons including Alan Shearer, Niall Quinn, Steve Gibson, Delia Smith and Mick Mills are continuing his wishes today.