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Newcastle University's team provides financial support and raises awareness for efforts to combat extreme poverty and climate change: surely two of humanity's greatest challenges.

"We will spare no effort to free our fellow men, women and children from the abject and dehumanising conditions of extreme poverty." (UN's Millennium Declaration, Sept 2000)

"Never have we faced a more global threat" than that of climate change. (Lord Robert May, President of the Royal Society, the UK's national academy of sciences)

It also provides runners with the opportunity to support action on the terrible humanitarian crises currently in the news, and for wider environmental concerns.