🏃 Bath Half Marathon 2025 charity places still available!
Run with Whisper in the Bath Half Marathon on Sunday 16 March 2025!
The Bath Half Marathon 🏆 is south west England's largest fundraising event, with 15000 runners. It's very popular 🏃💨 and most places were taken in 2024; Whisper is one of a very few charities that still have places available. You can find out more about the event on the official site.
Whisper is a very high-impact Somerset-based charity that funds a children's hospital 🏥, a maternity unit 🤰🏽, a free ambulance 🚑 and a nursing school 🎓 in Jinja, Uganda. We achieve all this on an annual donation budget of around £250,000. Every £22 donated allows us to treat a child, an average that includes some lengthy inpatient stays 🤒. We estimate that every £279 donated saves a life that would not otherwise have been saved 🧸.
In return for a place we'd like you to donate or commit to raising at least £200 for us.
Let's take a quick tour 👀 of some of the things we do. This is Whisper's hospital; the hospital opened on another site in 2016 and moved to this building in 2018:
This is the ambulance in front of the hospital:
This is one of our operating theatres:
This is our delivery room in the maternity unit:
This is a lecture in our nursing school:
We can offer you:
- personal attention - we're a small organisation 🙏
- no registration fee
- you won't find a lower fundraising target 🎯
- an individual running vest, with a wide range of colours to choose from 👕
- a free 3-month training app subscription to keep you motivated and help you train safely
- optional corporate matched giving 🎁
- advice and practical help with fundraising
For the running vest and the training app subscription, you will need to reach an intermediate fundraising target to qualify. Although there's no registration fee, we ask that you start fundraising right away; to keep your place you will need to raise at least £80 within two weeks.
Because the training schedule is quite tight now ⌛, these places might not be suitable for you unless you are already fit 💪 or you already run regularly, although walking part of the course could be an option.
I cannot tell you how inspiring this charity is. They do incredible work. I am raising money for Whisper but the support I am getting from them is fantastic. I have never had this before when raising money for charity. a previous runner in the London Marathon
