Runs raise £3 million from BUPA partnership
Howard Lake | 16 October 2005 | News
Leukaemia Research has raised over £3 million from the Great Run series of events during a five-year partnership with healthcare company BUPA.
Over 2,000 runners from the charity’s running team, the ‘Banana Army’, marked the end of the partnership with BUPA when they took on the 10-mile BUPA Great South Run in Portsmouth on 9 October 2005. They are expected to have raised over £100,000 from the event, taking the total raised from the partnership over the £3 million mark.
Over the last five years, Leukaemia Research has been the official charity for BUPA in the Great Run series, which includes the Great Caledonian Run in Scotland, Great Manchester Run and the Great North Run in Newcastle.
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In this final year of the partnership over 40,000 members of the ‘Banana Army’ have run in the major running events across the UK.
Leukaemia Research’s Director of Fundraising Cathy Gilman said: “The BUPA Great Run series has been a key part of our fundraising efforts over the last five years, during which time the TV Times and Asics sponsored team has gone from strength to strength.
The TVTimes and Asics sponsored team includes TV and film personalities such as cast members from the ITV soap ‘Emmerdale’, ex-Doctor Who Christopher Eccleston and former 10,000m world champion Liz McColgan, who is also the patron of the charity’s running team.
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