Great North Run

Date:
Add to Calendar 2025-09-07 00:00:00 2025-09-07 00:00:00 Great North Run Take to the streets of Newcastle, Gateshead and South Shields as you join over 57,000 runners on the world's biggest half marathon. Newcastle WaterAid UK [email protected] Europe/London public
Where:
Newcastle
Distance:
Half marathon (13.1 miles)
Registration fee:
£20
Minimum sponsorship:
£300
WaterAid/Richard Blaxall

Event information

Take to the streets of Newcastle, Gateshead and South Shields as you join over 57,000 runners on the world's biggest half marathon.

2025 Great North Run

Registrations for 2025 are now open - secure your place on our team today! 

Register for 2025

How we'll help

To help support all our runners in the lead up to race day we’ve teamed up with the company RunningWithUs to provide you with a special training package. As a member of our team you’ll receive:

  • A bespoke training plan – suitable for your level of experience
  • Email helpline – ask a coach or physio your training, race, nutrition or injury questions
  • Twitter and Facebook ask-the-coach services and webinar sessions
  • A WaterAid running vest or technical t-shirt

We also provide a fundraising pack to help you meet your targets, fundraising and event resources like balloons, collecting tins and banners (upon request) and regular newsletters with support and advice from our dedicated WaterAid events team.

If you have a question or would like to chat about joining Team WaterAid please get in touch.

It feels amazing knowing that a little bit of effort running an event can change someone’s life. And WaterAid were always there to support me all the way.

Craig Holliday, previous runner 

FAQs

Congrats on securing your own place – we'd love to have you on board!

To join Team WaterAid you can either pop us an email at [email protected] to let us know you’d like to join our team, or you can set up an online fundraising page on JustGiving. They'll tell us you’re fundraising for WaterAid and we’ll get in touch to say thank you and send you a fundraising pack.

If you’ve registered for a charity place or let us know you have your own place in any of our events, you'll receive your very own WaterAid running top a few weeks before the race.

If you're taking on a different event for WaterAid and would like us to send you a vest or jersey, please contact us at [email protected].

We've teamed up with leading sport and training coaches RunningWithUs to provide expert training plans, tips and advice.

We have bespoke training plans, put together by RunningWithUs, and you'll get direct access to the expertise of our professional coaches. Whether you’re brand new to running or a seasoned pro, we have a training plan to help you. If you have any specific training questions, you can contact RunningWithUs directly by emailing [email protected]

We're really sorry to hear that – please contact our events team at [email protected] to let us know you won’t be taking part.

If you’ve bought a WaterAid charity place in an event, we'll ask you to reach a minimum fundraising target. This will cover the cost of the event place and administration fees that WaterAid have to pay, and help provide much needed support to some of the world’s poorest communities.

If you're concerned you won’t reach your fundraising target, please get in touch with us as soon as possible. We're on hand to help you out with tips and ideas that will help you reach your target and we may be able to extend your deadline, so that you have that little bit longer to fundraise.

You’ve come to the right place! Check out some great fundraising ideas and inspirational stories.

Once you’ve registered for an event, we’ll also send you a fundraising guide as part of your welcome pack. This has lots of great fundraising tips to get you off to a flying start.

If you've raised money on JustGiving or VirginMoneyGiving, your job is done! All the online donations made to your fundraising page are automatically transferred over to WaterAid and allocated to your total.

If you've raised money offline, you can pay your money in online, or send in your fundraising by making a bank transfer, sending us a cheque, or paying in your money over the phone.

If you’re making a bank transfer please use the following details:

WaterAid Current Account
Barclays Bank PLC
Sort code: 20-65-82
Account number: 20422746

If you’re sending in a cheque, please make it payable to WaterAid and send it to:

WaterAid
6th floor
20 Canada Square
London
E14 5NN

Please also fill in a donation form with your name and details of your fundraising, and send it in to us. Otherwise we won’t know that the money is from you, and we won’t be able to thank you for your fundraising!

If you want to pay your money in over the phone, give us a call on 020 7793 4594.

Contact us

Have a question about the event you've signed up to? Or do you need some help choosing your next challenge?

Contact Megan in our Events team and she’ll be happy to help.

Email: [email protected]

Phone: 020 7793 4594

You can also join the WaterAid Events Facebook group to get answers to any questions you may have.

Megan Elworthy