Fran's fundraiser for Portsmouth Pride

Fran white is raising money for Portsmouth Pride

Portsmouth Marathon · 21 December 2025

Portsmouth Pride aims to be more than just an LGBTQ+ Main Day Event, we want to work towards a future where no one is discriminate against. We aim to create a safe space for everyone in our community.

Story

About 10 years ago I set myself the challenge of running five marathons over the course of my life. Portsmouth Marathon in December 2024 will be number 4 of 5 and one step closer to completing my slightly arbitrary personal goal....

It also felt like a good time to raise some money for a cause I'm passionate about - Portsmouth Pride. This year has been an important one for the charity as we hosted UK Pride, but the work doesn't stop.

Running and Portsmouth Pride are a particularly special combo for me. When Portsmouth Pride, in its current form, started in 2017, Tally, ever one to identify someone's strengths and passions, encouraged me to volunteer and marshall the parade. I used to be there at the start of parade..... and then run along the seafront to the bandstand in time to marshall people to where the stage was!

I now do a little more for the charity (less running, more writing) but still want to show my personal support. As a born and bred portsmouth girl and an Ally, it is important that people feel safe and included in the city I choose to live in. Research and evidence shows that the LGBTQ+ community still experience exclusion and discrimination, and that is unfair and unjust and Portsmouth Pride does some amazing work to address this.

So......what better way than to use the thing that first got me involved to raise some funds. If you can donate a few pennies for a fantastic cause, it will certainly help keep me motivated on what will be some long, cold and more than likely rainy training runs.

Who are Portsmouth Pride?

Portsmouth Pride is so much more than one day. Its vision is to create an inclusive city for the LGBTQ+ people who live in, work in, study in, or visit Portsmouth. It creates safe spaces for the LGBTQ+ community to come together across the city and it celebrates the the diversity of our amazing city and residents at an annual, free and fenceless Main Day event.

This has been important year for the Charity as it hosted UK Pride on 7th June 2025, but more importantly the work of the charity hasn't stopped.

If you want to know more about Portsmouth Pride you can find out more here: https://www.portsmouthpride.org.uk/home

Thank you!

Donation summary

Total
£240.00
Online
£240.00
Offline
£0.00

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