This year a team from XP are running the Sheffield Half Marathon, on Sunday 29th March 2026, on behalf of the students and community of the XP Trust in both Doncaster and Gateshead.

Our intention is to raise money for our annual Arts and Music Festival in the Summer of 2026 so that we can provide professional artists to support our young people in readiness for the event on Thursday 25th June 2026.

Our schools serve some of the most deprived areas in the country and we want to enable all of our students, across our primary and secondary schools, to experience and have the chance to perform in a variety of different contexts.

The power of the arts to transform lives for the better is needed now more than ever. We want to inspire our young people and unlock their creativity by providing them with a range of artistic opportunities and through this realise that through the arts we find connections, build community and express our humanity.

Thank you for supporting such an important cause.

Andy Sprakes