Julie McElroy is aiming to be the first female frame runner to complete the TCS London Marathon, fundraising for The Richard Whitehead Foundation on 21st April 2024, alongside her support runner Gill.

Join our Run with Rich 2024 event at Holme Pierrepont on Sunday 2nd June.

Its a friendly and inclusive fundraiser event for everyone, and by taking part you will be supporting our work with disabled people, enabling them to achieve a life without limits.

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The Richard Whitehead Foundation have launched the recruitment for the Class of 2024 Beneficiaries Programme supported by the Nissan Possibilities Project. After the success of the 2022 programme, we are delighted to announce that we are looking to recruit a new cohort that will once again support a small number of young disabled adults (aged 18+) from England and Wales.

Maxim Lubavskiy has been touring the UK on a journey to complete all of the AJ Bell Great Run Series events in 2023 and the London Marathon to raise funds for the Richard Whitehead Foundation.

We are pleased to announce we are recruiting for two new positions within the foundation, including our first Chief Executive Officer and a Fundraising Officer, and two new trustee roles.

On Sunday 10th September, we were delighted to be in Newcastle to join the 60,000 people who were taking part in the Great North Run.

We were excited to officially launch our new Supported Runner project on Friday 8th September, just ahead of the Great North Run. The programme is being provided in partnership with Nissan and will be working closely with the Great Run Series.

We need you! We are looking to recruit a volunteer bookkeeper to support the development of the Foundation.

We were thrilled to take delivery of a new racing wheelchair, kindly donated by the family of Lee Blissett, in June at our Run with Rich event in Nottingham.

We are delighted to be able to offer places at this year’s Great South Run on Sunday 15th October 2023, for both charity runners and as part of our supported runners project.

We are very proud and excited to be joining Nissan at this year’s CarFest in Hampshire over the bank holiday weekend.

We are excited to be able to offer the opportunity for young disabled children to be able to take part in this year’s Great North Run’s children’s event on Saturday 9th September, giving kids a chance to shine on Great North Run weekend.

We require a marketing agency or freelancer to shape an identity for our newest project and provide us with unique branding.

We are seeking to create a brand identity and marketing assets for our new supported running project. The aim of the project is to make running events more inclusive by providing direct support to disabled runners through the provision of a support runner.

The Foundation successfully delivered their second ever Run with Rich on Sunday 18 June at Holme Pierrepont Country Park in Nottingham, with 450 people taking part – their way.

On Sunday 23rd April, our founder Richard Whitehead and seven intrepid runners completed the 2023 London Marathon.

With support from BP we are delivering a Week of Inspiration in primary schools across the Tees Valley region and are recruiting for Ambassadors to help our delivery team.

Registration is now open Run with Rich 2023!

Run with Rich 2023’ is a friendly and inclusive fun event for everyone. By taking part you will support our work with disabled people enabling them to achieve a life without limits.

Paul Brackley (Project Manager) joins the team as an experienced community and disability sports professional. He is passionate about using sport to support and improve communities and seeing disability sport develop and flourish. He has built up an in-depth knowledge of the sports industry and particularly disability sport initiatives, having been involved as a player, volunteer, coach, mentor, and development manager for over 22 years. He joins having successfully developed and managed one of the largest disability football programmes nationally and is keen to use those experiences to help grow our projects.

We are excited that Paul can join the team at this exciting time of delivering new projects, and developing exciting new opportunities. Paul can be contacted via paul.whitehead@whitehead.foundation.