AJ Bell Great South Run
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The AJ Bell Great South Run is probably the world’s favourite 10 mile running event (plus there’s also a 5k option), with inspiring history, salty air and glorious sea views guaranteed. Portsmouth’s supporters will keep your spirits and motivation up the whole way round, with blaring music, cheers, high fives, fist bumps all part of the incredible AJ Bell Great South Run experience. Plus, there’s a medal, exclusive finisher t-shirt and bragging rights at the finish line. There’s a reason 99% of runners say they’d recommend it to a friend – lots of reasons, in fact.
AJ Bell Great South Run (10 mile) entries are open to runners aged 16+ on the day of the event.
Booking fee (£2 per entry) is applied at checkout.
What Makes It Great?
£10 off your next great run if you refer a friend
Free Event Day Tracking App
Access to Great Run training plans and support
Access to exclusive discounts when you sign up to a Great Run event
Fast and flat route with breathtaking sea views
Finishers' pack, bespoke medal and (optional) finisher t-shirt
Run number personalised with your name
Power of Running
We believe in the Power of Running. For Great Run series ambassador and elite athlete, Eilish McColgan, running has always been a part of her life, and the Great Run events have been a proud part of her journey.
Everyone who signs up for the AJ Bell Great South Run is a runner, regardless of finish time, and everyone has their reason for running. In our Power of Running campaign, we are bringing to life some of the amazing stories behind the tens of thousands of runners who line up on the start line each year. Tell us about your running story, and you could be featured in our campaign.
Event Timetable: 20 October 2024
Please note: this is a provisional timetable and may be subject to change.
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What You Get
We have made the decision to introduce optional finisher tees to our Great Run events. You can choose to forgo a finisher tee shirt at the point of entry, and in lieu of this we will make a donation to the National Trust Woodlands Appeal. Find out more here. We will donate a portion of the fulfilment costs for each runner who chooses this option to the fund and commit that this donation to be approx. £20,000.
Obviously you’ll have bragging rights for the forseeable, but you’ll also get:
The Medal
The Photos
The App
The Discounts
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AJ Bell Great South Run Charities
You may be able to secure a charity entry by agreeing to raise sponsorship money.
British Heart Foundation is the official charity of the AJ Bell Great Run series this year and we could not be more proud.
When you run for BHF, you can help us achieve our vision of a world free from the fear of heart and circulatory diseases. You run for the people you love. You run to help us fund lifesaving research and support people affected by heart and circulatory diseases. You run to help keep families together for longer.
It’s because of you, BHF-funded research is possible. Together, we can make the impossible possible. Thank you.
Join forces with the team that will get you to the finish line. We’re the only ones fighting over 200 cancer . Our life-saving work is funded entirely by the generosity of our supporters, so every step we make towards beating cancer relies on every pound, and every runner. One in two people now survive cancer. Together we’ve achieved so much, but we won’t stop until we’ve beaten it altogether. Join the team today and we will beat cancer.
The Bobby Moore Fund was set up in memory legendary footballer Bobby Moore, who sadly died from bowel cancer aged just 51.To date the Bobby Moore Fund has raised over £20 million. The funds are spent on world class bowel cancer research carried out by leading scientists working across the UK. With your support, bowel cancer stands no chance. Let’s make Bobby proud and help beat it sooner. Join the Bobby Moore Fund team today.
By 2025, there will be 1 million people in the UK living with dementia. Alzheimer’s Society are there for everyone living with dementia and their loves ones – wherever they are, whatever they’re going through. We campaign for change, fund life-changing research and give help and hope to those living with dementia. Join team Alzheimer’s Society today.
Show your support for the 10,000 people a year diagnosed with leukaemia by joining Leukaemia Care, the UK’s leading leukaemia charity. By running for Leukaemia Care you are helping to ensure that everyone affected by a leukaemia diagnosis, receives the best possible information, advice, treatment and support.
At Macmillan, we give people with cancer everything we’ve got. If you’re diagnosed, your worries are our worries. We will move mountains to help you live life as fully as you can. And we don’t stop there. We’re going all out to find ever better ways to help people with cancer, helping to bring forward the day when everyone gets life-transforming support from day one. We’re doing whatever it takes, but we couldn’t do what we do without you, thank you so much for your support.
Run for Portsmouth Hospitals Charity and help support the local Hospital to enhance patient care and support staff wellbeing. From innovative medical equipment, to patient experience to research each £1 will make a massive difference locally. Come and join the team!
Pompey in the Community support the lives of over 36,000 people of all ages every year, but we want to support more. The cost-of-living crisis has meant our services are becoming more integral to the lives of those we support. You will help us harness the motivational power of Portsmouth Football Club to enable and empower individuals to thrive, foster social integration and create a community where people can flourish and belong.
Join Team Pompey in the Community to create lasting, positive change.
Other Charities
| Action Bladder Cancer UK |
| Adopt South |
| AMEND |
| Big Yellow Foundation |
| Billington Foundation |
| Brake – The Road Safety Charity |
| Coeliac Uk |
| Cure Leukaemia |
| CUREUsher |
| Debra |
| Encephalitis International |
| HEART UK |
| Hospice UK |
| Hounds for Heroes |
| Jon Egging Trust |
| Military vs Cancer |
| MS Together |
| Naomi House |
| National Eczema Society |
| Neuroendocrine Cancer UK |
| Nicholls Spinal Injury Foundaiton |
| Pandas Foundation |
| PAPYRUS |
| Parkinson’s UK |
| Paws2Rescue |
| Portsmouth Down Syndrome Association |
| PTSD UK |
| Remap |
| Ripples of Compassion |
| Safe Families |
| SafeLives |
| Seas Your Future |
| Simon Says |
| Smile Train |
| Solent Mind |
| St Wilfrid’s Hospice |
| Support our Paras |
| The Mariposa Trust |
| The Rainbow Centre |
| UKSA |
| Walking with the Wounded |
| Wheelpower |
