How charities benefit from the Great North Run

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Many thousands of the masses who run the Great North Run do so in aid of a chosen charity. We found out about some of the organisations who will benefit.

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00:00 The Great North Run sees many different charities benefiting from the runners completing the race.

00:06 I first spoke to Helen, a member of the public, running alongside some of her friends.

00:11 Firstly, who are you and what are you running for?

00:14 So I'm running for Pleasure and Joy and my name's, I don't know what my name is,

00:19 my name's Helen Holdroyd and I'm from Shropshire.

00:22 I run with Newport District Running Club and there's a little gang of us here this morning

00:26 waiting for the other two to arrive and we're just hoping to have a great day.

00:30 I've got a couple of friends here with me as well, I've got Mike from Edinburgh,

00:34 come on Mike, this great big mountain man, woohoo!

00:38 And I've got my brother-in-law as well who's from Manchester, so yeah, we're hoping to have an amazing day.

00:44 I then caught a word with Kevin Phillips, the former Sunderland football player,

00:49 running his first ever Great North Run and asked him about the charity he was running for.

00:55 So Red Sky Foundation, Sergio and his wife set up the foundation.

00:59 It's a charity that looks after young children that need heart operation or need care when they've been born,

01:05 not just children but adults as well, so it's about giving them aftercare after they've had heart surgery.

01:10 The guy I'm running with today, Wes, his lad had heart surgery when he was a child,

01:13 so it's a great cause and hopefully we can raise loads and loads of money today for the foundation.

01:18 Dragons Den businesswoman, Sara Davies, was extremely enthusiastic that she was running for one of the NHS trusts in the North East.

01:27 So I'm running for our local NHS Foundation Trust, the County Durham and Darlington one,

01:32 but to be honest, just to be running for the NHS and raising funds and supporting our NHS today in its 75th year,

01:39 it's just something special. When they contacted me a couple of months ago and asked me to do it,

01:44 I said, "I've wanted to do the Great North in the last few years," and it was just that push I needed,

01:48 so I was like, "I'm in! I'm definitely in!"

01:51 Journalist Andrew Musgrove of The Chronicle in Newcastle was part of a number of reporters

01:57 who were all running for the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation.

02:01 So last year we were invited by the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation and George Cole,

02:08 the head of the Athletic, to join Sir Bobby's team, which is just a team of journalists, as you said,

02:14 to help raise awareness and funds for the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation,

02:17 which is one day hopefully going to cure cancer.

02:20 People go into the foundation and go through trials, and hopefully one day they will find that all-important cure.

02:27 And the money that we raised last year, today, throughout the year really, all goes towards that.

02:31 It's a great cause and it just helps cement the legacy of a great man who not only is a legend here in Newcastle,

02:37 but a legend across the whole entire region.

02:39 Finally, at the finish line, Ronan Michael told me how the charity he was running for

02:44 helps disadvantaged people access university education.

02:49 So today I'm running for Inter-University. Inter-University is a charity.

02:55 We work in a number of different communities all over England and Scotland,

02:58 and as a charity we aim to support more children and more young people

03:02 from disadvantaged communities in accessing university.

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