Discover the latest events and offers from Rethink Mental Illness!
These original events are created by Rethink Mental Illness and provide fantastic opportunities to explore the outdoors!
Discover opportunities to run a 26.2-mile race for this great mental health charity.
The most magical road marathon in the world, a fast and monumental marathon with truly unique attractions in the 'world's best city'!
The second-largest marathon on the planet over a flat course in one of the world's most iconic cities, the Paris Marathon boasts an incomparable backdrop. Charity places now available for 2024.
This 2-lap marathon course offers a spectacular route including green parks, shoreline and riverside views, starting and finishing at the iconic Southampton Guildhall.
One of the UK's most popular marathons, boasting a new and beautiful seaside course with superb local support, making it a truly sensational running experience. Charity places now available for 2024.
Experience the UK’s friendliest and flattest major marathon with huge crowd support on a route with PB potential plus chunky medals and relay options. Charity places now available for 2024.
Experience the renowned atmosphere of the TCS London Marathon, the most popular marathon in the world, with its grand finale on The Mall itself! Charity places available for 2024.
Welcome to the second year of the Rob Burrow Leeds Marathon based at Headingley Stadium, following a route which heads into Wharfedale. Join the masses running for a worthy cause!
Fast, flat and beautifully scenic with Edinburgh Castle as the backdrop, this marathon route takes you along the coastline and sells out every year so go for it and enter!
The relay is a chance for a team of four to join forces and complete the Edinburgh Marathon. The 26.2 miles is split into four legs, each runner will run one leg plus you'll receive matching medals!
Run 'The world's most scenic marathon' through London's greenest borough including Richmond Bridge and the Tow Path. Start inside the Kew Gardens with family fun music festival to finish!
A world record-breaking road race around a historic city on a route featuring the Brandenburg Gate and iconic sights. Celebrate its 50th Anniversary in 2024 by securing a charity place!
A multi-award event and three time winner of the UK's Best Marathon (up to 5,000 runners) as well as the UK’s only international marathon from the historic Roman/Medieval City of Chester.
Starting and finishing in the historic Olympic Stadium, this is the fourth fastest marathon in the world and known for its flat, fast, historic course. Charity places now available for 2024.
Thousands of runners (and walkers) of all abilities will tackle the flat, traffic-free course past the city's historic sites to a cracking Yorkshire atmosphere! Relay team challenge available too.
Europe's 5th largest marathon follows a city centre lap perfect for marathon running. Much-loved and always oversubscribed, it's super-friendly and unmissable.
Enter a 13.1-mile race for Rethink Mental Illness!
Join the Battersea Park Half Marathon in the new year! The January edition is a fundraiser for the World Cancer Research Fund.
Join the UK's Happiest Half - a fast, flat race with a buzzing Brighton atmosphere. An early season major half and one of the most popular races in the UK!
One of the UK's favourite half marathons will once again take runners past a number of historic landmarks, into beautiful Cambridgeshire countryside and into the grounds of two iconic Colleges.
Fast and flat through historic streets on a two-lap course that avoids the city's hills. Voted 3rd best UK running event by the Daily Telegraph.
Take on the only Half Marathon to be held at the historic royal home of Henry VIII. Enjoy free entry to the gardens and a superb, scenic race with chip timing, medal and tech top.
The Kew Half Marathon starts inside Kew Gardens and every runner will receive a fantastic medal, a technical running t-shirt (male & female cut) and free entry into the gardens!
A single lap of the marathon course which offers a spectacular route including green parks, shoreline and riverside views, starting and finishing at the iconic Southampton Guildhall.
A spirited Central London run with live music, upbeat DJs, street-dancers and inspiring themes on a landmark-packed route with closed roads. Charity places available for 2024.
A major event in the UK's running calendar, the Sheffield Half Marathon is South Yorkshire’s biggest event of its kind and boasts a stunningly scenic route with majestic views of the Peak District.
The Unleashed Performance Reading Half Marathon and Green Park Challenge will return in 2023.
Enjoy a fully closed road race, on flat coastal roads with a spectacular seafront finish. Chance to take home a PB along with the finishers' t-shirt and medal.
Pass the iconic landmarks of Birmingham, taking on a half marathon route which navigates the famous landmarks of the city centre.
First staged 35 years ago, the Leeds Half Marathon is Yorkshire’s biggest and probably loudest event of its kind. Features an exhilarating city centre finish in Millenium Square.
Run the Hackney Half for a Hackney Hospice and save ££s! All Team St Joseph's runners will get free physio support, welcome evening, post-race massage, on the day cheers and much more.
Get involved in a unique opportunity to run a 5k, 10k or Half Marathon at the world famous Aintree Racecourse, best known for annually holding the world-famous Grand National steeplechase.
Just before the Marathon, the Half follows the same fast and flat route from the iconic castle and city sights to the coast for an explosive finish and offers genuine PB potential.
Manchester's original running event famous for its city centre route, buzzing atmosphere, iconic music, entertainment zones, football stadia and great PB potential. Charity places available for 2024.
A seriously flat and rapid point-to-point course with a downhill profile along the coast to finish in the final furlong of Scotland's oldest racecourse with a grandstand finish!
The Big Half promise a party atmosphere on a landmark-packed, half marathon route which follows some of the famous marathon course in reverse! Charity places available for 2024.
Take part in the world's biggest half marathon and experience the buzz, unrivalled support and cheerful crowds of this historic event. Charity places now available for 2024!
London's flattest half marathon through its greenest borough exploring the beauties and history of Richmond. Start inside the Kew Gardens with family fun music festival to finish!
Voted the UK’s best half marathon three years in a row, this triple gold award-winning event on fully-closed roads enjoys the leafy paths of Lammas Park and roads of West London.
Welcome to Robin Hood Marathon Events including Robin Hood Half Marathon and the Mini Marathon. One of the longest established and most popular city centre road events in the UK.
Glasgow’s running highlight of the year! A stunning route past the city’s famous landmarks, along the River Clyde and through some of Glasgow’s greenest spaces. Charity places available for 2023.
Barnardo's founded the Cardiff Half Marathon over 20 years ago - join their team for just £5 and get your VIP invite to their exclusive post-race party!
A stunning central London half marathon taking in four Royal Parks and some of the capital's world-famous landmarks on closed roads. Charity places now available for 2024.
Round off the season with a flat and fast half on fully closed roads with some of the best crowd support around and receive your chunky medal near Old Trafford. Charity places now available for 2024.
Sun... Sea... Running as it should be. Run along both Boscombe and Bournemouth piers on a stunning coastal route! Part of the Run Bournemouth weekend running festival.
The biggest half marathon in the Netherlands and part of the Amsterdam Marathon Weekend boasting a flat, fast course and an exciting Olympic Stadium finish. Charity places now available for 2024.
Secure your place in sportives and charity bike rides around the UK!
The Etape Loch Ness is Scotland’s largest closed road cycle sportive taking place around the stunning shores of iconic Loch Ness.
RideLondon-Essex 100 returns with an exciting traffic-free route from the capital into glorious Essex countryside and back to a rapturous finish at Tower Bridge. Charity places now available for 2024.
This unique ride sees participants pedal past impressive London landmarks and through picturesque rural Essex – all on traffic-free roads. Ideal for newcomers to RideLondon.
Europe's oldest charity bike ride is back and you can be part of it! Ride from capital to coast covering 54 miles through rolling countryside to a spectacular finish on Brighton Beach.
Dragon Ride is one of the oldest and most iconic sportives in the UK with 4 distances, sweeping climbs through the stunning Bannau Brycheiniog (Brecon Beacons) and King/Queen of the Mountains prizes.
Dragon Ride is one of the oldest and most iconic sportives in the UK with 4 distances, sweeping climbs through the stunning Bannau Brycheiniog (Brecon Beacons) and King/Queen of the Mountains prizes.
Dragon Ride is one of the oldest and most iconic sportives in the UK with 4 distances, sweeping climbs through the stunning Bannau Brycheiniog (Brecon Beacons) and King/Queen of the Mountains prizes.
Dragon Ride is one of the oldest and most iconic sportives in the UK with 4 distances, sweeping climbs through the stunning Bannau Brycheiniog (Brecon Beacons) and King/Queen of the Mountains prizes.
Across 9 epic days, Ride Across Britain covers 980 miles of the most beautiful landscapes accessible on two wheels. We think there is no better way to travel from Land’s End to John O’Groats!
Britain's best-known one-day cycle route! Wake up in London, get on your bike and end up on Brighton's pebbly beach plus conquer the mile-long climb of Ditchling Beacon on route.
Explore swim-bike-run events that you can enter alongside Rethink Mental Illness!
Immerse yourself in a world of sea, lake and river swims with this range of charity places from Rethink Mental Illness.
Get a feel for the open water at the Great North Swim Weekend - the UKs biggest open water swim event.
Rethink Mental Illness do exactly as their name suggests, helping to change perceptions of mental illness and support anyone who has been affected by mental health conditions. They provide services and groups across the UK to support people with mental illnesses, as well as providing mental health training and campaigning on a local and national level to improve mental health provisions.
Back in 1970, journalist John Pringle wrote a column in The Times about his son's experience of schizophrenia, leading to many carers contacting him in support. Some of these carers decided to found an organisation that, while initially focused exclusively on schizophrenia, is known today as Rethink Mental Illness.
Over the past 50 years, the charity has founded support groups in local areas, campaigned on a national level for changes to the Mental Health Act, established training courses to professionals, and much, much more.
The campaigns that Rethink Mental Illness are instrumental in developing focus not just on people living mental illness but their families and carers, helping to support everybody affected by mental illness.
That's where you come in.
Rethink Mental Illness reach thousands of people across the UK every year but to do so, they need charitable donations and fundraising. If you want to be active outdoors, taking part in an event organised by the charity or representing them in a major running or cycling event will help to fund their services and raise support for this brilliant cause.
You can sign up to events like the Snowdon Triple Challenge, a multi-activity adventure organised by Rethink Mental Illness. Participants hike, bike and paddle through the incredible landscape of Snowdonia, creating unforgettable memories at the same time as supporting the charity.
Alternatively, you could claim a charity place in a major event, like the Tough Mudder series or the Great North Run! Signing up with Rethink Mental Illness and agreeing to fundraise for them will get you a discounted entry as well as invaluable training support!
Discover the full range of events and charity places here!
