Run for Charity
Charity Superstar Program
Run for one of our Charity Superstar partners and receive loads of benefits! All you have to do is raise the charity's minimum fundraising amount.
Applications to become a Charity Superstar will be opening soon!
Run with Heart
Souvenir Charity Superstar Medal
Free Race Entry & Transport
Gut Cancer Foundation
Each year, gut cancers kill more New Zealanders than prostate and breast cancer combined. Join our team for the Barfoot & Thompson Auckland Marathon and raise vital funds for innovative research and clinical trials to improve the survival rates and quality of life for gut cancer patients.
Regular exercise has been proven to reduce your risk of developing a gut cancer so your marathon effort will not only support the 17 Kiwis a day who are diagnosed with a gut cancer but also raise awareness and promote healthy living.
Sign up today to help kick cancer in the guts! Any questions, contact info@gutcancer.org.nz or visit our website https://www.gutcancer.org.nz/
Starship Foundation
Thanks to the generosity and compassion of everyday New Zealanders the Starship Foundation has generated more than $160 million for Starship, our national children’s hospital, since 1992, helping to ensure all children in Aotearoa New Zealand have access to world-class healthcare. These critical funds are invested in research, technology, equipment and impact programmes that save and improve lives. Recently, this has included an expansion and upgrade of New Zealand’s only dedicated Paediatric Intensive Care Unit at Starship and ongoing support for the Starship National Air Ambulance which retrieves a critically ill or injured child every 48 hours and flies them to Starship for specialist care.
Movember
Movember is the leading charity changing the face of men’s health on a global scale, focusing on mental health and suicide prevention, prostate cancer and testicular cancer.
Bowel Cancer New Zealand
Run for team Bowel Cancer NZ so we can help the 3,000+ Kiwis diagnosed with bowel cancer each year.
Supporting our mahi means we can continue to help patients and their whānau through our free support services; raising awareness of bowel cancer symptoms; advocating for patients; and funding research into treatments and, ultimately, a cure!
Bowel Cancer NZ is a nationwide charity that is 100% community funded – we receive no government funding.
Help us, help bowel cancer patients - join our team and fundraise so we can kick cancer in the butt!
We’re here for you, so check the support we offer at www.bowelcancernz.org.nz or for any questions, contact info@bowelcancernz.org.nz
I am Hope
Throughout the year our I Am Hope ambassadors visit hundreds of schools with our “Little People, Big Feelings” program. Reading our new TR & Mac book “Little People, Big Feelings” the Ambassadors talk to young primary age kids about how to ask for help and normalise counselling as being “just a conversation” as well as passing on other coping tools for them to take home and use in times of stress.
40% of kids will have a major crisis often associated with some type of suicidal thinking before they leave school. 80% of those kids never ask for help because they are worried about what others will think, say, or do.
With our program we aim to reduce this number and help kids to feel comfortable seeking counselling or talking to their mates without fear of repercussions.
The I Am Hope tours are an unfunded service delivered at no cost to schools and communities and all costs are met by our charity.
We need your help to keep up with the growing demand. Together we can build a better informed and more resilient generation of young people and arm them with tools to pass on to future generations.
By choosing to become part of the I Am Hope team at the 2025 Barfoot & Thompson Auckland Marathon presented by ASICS, you can run while knowing every step you take is helping to get young people in New Zealand to a better place.
Any questions please feel free to contact Michaiah at michaiah@iamhope.org.nz
Mental Health Foundation
The Mental Health Foundation of New Zealand is a charity that works towards creating a society free from discrimination, where all people enjoy positive mental health & wellbeing. Improving individuals, whānau, organisations and communities.
Mercy Hospice
Mercy Hospice provides a range of specialist community palliative care and hospice services for people facing life limiting illnesses, caring for them with clinical expertise, compassion and quality of service. We also offer support and education to family, friends and carers to help them cope with problems arising from the illness.
Cure Parkinson's NZ
We are on a mission to shape and fuel effective research leading to a cure for Parkinson’s disease, namely, therapies that can slow, stop or reverse the progression of this insidious disease.
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