Manchester Marathon

Registration fee: £35

Minimum fundraising target: £500

Every £60 you raise could pay for a family to stay overnight in one of Young Lives vs Cancer’s Homes from Home, providing free self-catering accommodation near to specialist children’s cancer treatment centres, which are often many miles from a family’s own home. Staying in a Home from Home ensures a family can be close to their child during treatment.

We love our runners, and we want them to have an awesome experience! Some of the benefits of joining our team are:

• A Young Lives vs Cancer vest so you look awesome and stand out in the crowd
• Our closed Facebook group where you can meet other Young Lives vs Cancer sporting legends, share fundraising ideas and training tips
• Our online Event Hub where you can find training plans, useful fundraising tools and injury resolution advice
• We’ll shower you with advice, ideas and materials to get the money rolling in, and if you ever need us we’re only a phone call away.

When a child is diagnosed with cancer it threatens everything, for them and their family.

At a time when they should be busy being children, enjoying their rollercoaster teenage years or finding their feet at uni, life becomes full of fear. Fear of treatment, but also of families being torn apart, of overwhelming money worries, mental health stretched to breaking point, of having nowhere to turn, no one to talk to.

At Young Lives vs Cancer, we get that. We are the charity that helps children and young people and their families find the strength to face whatever cancer throws at them. But every day 12 more children and young people hear the devastating news they have cancer. We’ll face it all together – but we can’t do it without you.