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Following the success of 2017's Running with Refugees' virtual marathon, join me for our 2nd year!
This time, we're raising funds for GRACE, a grassroots organisation that sends clothing and resources directly to refugee camps in Greece, Syria and around the world.
I am challenging everyone to start 2018 with a marathon and stand in solidarity with refugees around the world.
You'll have the month of January to complete your 26.2 miles, however you like, wherever you like around the world. Simply register and pay a donation fee of £26.20 (all of which minus administration fees will go to support GRACE).
Run, log and share your experience through the Etchrock platform and, at the end of the month, you will receive our bespoke Running with Refugees medal.
You can read more about GRACE's vital work here... https://www.graceaid.org.uk/
All the proceeds will go straight to GRACE to help refugees and displaced people around the world.
Organiser
Emma Manton
London, United Kingdom
I had no idea that when I agreed to join a friend on a short jog in 2014 that it would start a chain of events that would change my life. I was performing on stage in Stratford-upon-Avon when a colleague convinced me to join her on a two-mile run. I did the two miles but I had to walk twice and I was so ashamed. I thought I had to do something about it...
By 2016, I was ready to try and run the London Marathon. Throughout the previous summer, I had been watching with horror as the media filled with pictures of children's bodies washed up on Greece beaches and, particularly, the now infamous image of 3 year old Aylan Kurdi. I knew it was an issue I could get behind.
I spoke to a few friends in the Theatre world and, before long, my marathon fundraising had spiralled into something much bigger. The Royal National Theatre donated the use of the Lyttelton Theatre, 7 of the best playwrights in the UK wrote and donated material and 36 actors offered their services. UNHCR made one piece, by Jenifer Toksvig, into this amazing film with Cate Blanchett, Peter Capaldi, Keira Knightley, Juliet Stevenson and others.
On February 14th 2016, we staged 'Moving Stories' and raised over £32,000 pounds for the UN refugee agency (UNHCR). In April, I ran in London and was bitten with the marathon bug...!