Sport Relief 2010 - Enter Your Event Now!

In January 2010, the fifth Sport Relief campaign will be launched and they want to ensure that Sainsbury’s Sport Relief Miles are happening in every nook and cranny of the UK!  

Come Sunday 21^st March there will be around 350 Mile events happening in towns, cities and villages across the UK, and a whopping 90% of them will be organised by volunteer event organisers.

Sport Relief is on the lookout for motivated people with the skills and experience to organise a Mile event for their town.  Organising a Mile event isn’t difficult but there are a few minimum requirements:

·    Your event must take place on Sunday 21st March 2010

·    The event must be open to the public and accessible to all

·    You must have access to a suitable venue that allows for several hundred participants to run 1, 3 or 6 miles

·    You must have a group of reliable friends/volunteers to help you out

Not only is organising a Sport Relief Mile great fun, it’s also a great opportunity to...

·         Get more people in your community active (in 2008, over 41% of Milers were not active participants in sport!)

·         Showcase your venue

·         Bring local organisations in your community together

·         Raise your profile – use it as an opportunity to promote your organisation and attract new members

·         Gain amazing publicity by being part of a huge national campaign

And the Sport Relief Events Team will be on hand to support you the whole way through by providing:

·         Your own event webpage to promote your Mile event – they’ll also handle everything to do with registering participants so you can focus on the fun event stuff

·         Posters, press releases and other promotional materials

·         An organiser’s kit - full of information and everything you could need to organise, publicise and deliver a safe, successful and fun Mile event

·         Event Materials such as course banners, organiser’s t-shirts, goody bags, bottles of water, and a whole lot more

·         A dedicated member of the team to call on whenever you need to

Sport Relief - Getting Bigger & Bigger

Back in 2002, when Comic Relief first launched Sport Relief, they hoped it would be a winner.

Four campaigns later, with over 1.25 million people having taken part and over £75 million raised – it has turned into a truly national event that brings the entire nation together to get active, raise cash and change lives.

At its very heart sits the Sainsbury’s Sport Relief Mile, where young and old across the length and breadth of the UK take to the streets to challenge themselves and raise cash.

That money helps poor and disadvantaged people turn their lives around, both at home in the UK and across the world’s poorest countries.