DWF Team Take On AJ Bell Great Manchester Run

DWF Team Take On AJ Bell Great Manchester Run

On Sunday 31st May, our team from DWF Manchester will be taking on the AJ Bell Great Manchester Run, one of the North's biggest and best running events. The event offers runners the choice of a 10K or Half Marathon, with both routes starting in the city centre and passing iconic Manchester landmarks before finishing in a vibrant event village. 

100% of the money raised will go directly to the DWF Foundation's grant giving initiatives, which provides grants to charitable organisations across the UK. The Foundation focuses on supporting charities and community projects that make a real difference in the following key areas:

• Homelessness
• Health and well-being
• Education
• Environment and sustainability
• Employability

Through its grant‑giving, the DWF Foundation helps charities deliver practical, life‑changing support to individuals and communities who need it most.

How your support helps

Every donation – big or small – will help the DWF Foundation continue its vital work, funding charities and community organisations that are tackling social and environmental challenges and creating long‑term positive change.

Recent grants given in Manchester: 

• Prevent 2 Protect - Delivering educational workshops and sports activities to at-risk youth, helping them build confidence and avoid gang involvement,
• Chapter One - Transforming the futures of children who are facing disadvantage by breaking the cycle of educational inequality. 
• Smart Works Greater Manchester - Empowering women furthest from the labour market by offering tailored, one-to-one support.
• Veterans into Logistics - Providing veterans living with poor mental health, addiction, homelessness and unemployment by provided funded HGV driver training into employment. 
• Global Vision Initiative - Providing homeless individuals with vocational training in ICT, cookery, and entrepreneurship. 
• Back on Track - Running two training programmes with "City of Trees", giving vulnerable and socially disadvantaged adults who attend our community learning centre in Manchester the opportunity to work as a team and restore local greenspaces. 
• Barnabus - Offering a homeless podiatry service providing foot care for the beneficiaries who are rough sleeping who therefore can suffer trench foot, blisters, in-grown toenails, and verruca's.

Thank you so much for your encouragement and generosity. Your support will make every mile count on race day.