Sweat for the causes that move you
Charities are at the heart of our races.
Give your miles some purpose and raise life changing funds for one of our incredible charity partners.
Find out more about our charities below and get in touch with them directly to secure you spot.
Our charity partners
ALZHEIMER’S SOCIETY
We’re so pleased to be the Headline Charity Partner again for Hackney Half Marathon 2025! Alzheimer’s Society is the UK’s leading dementia charity, working towards a world where dementia no longer devastates lives. We do this by giving help to those living with dementia today and hope for the future by campaigning to make dementia the priority it should be and funding groundbreaking research.
SINGLE HOMELESS PROJECT
We were founded in 1975 when a group of six homeless men in London teamed up to create the change they wanted to see - an end to rough sleeping and a city where everyone has a place to call home and the chance to live a fulfilling life.
Today, we are the largest homeless charity dedicated to helping Londoners in crisis. Every year, we help over 10,000 people to leave homelessness behind, to be seen, to be heard, and find a place to call home.
MACMILLAN CANCER SUPPORT
Macmillan Cancer Support improves the lives of people living with cancer. We provide practical, medical, emotional and financial support and push for better cancer care. Cancer affects us all. We can all help
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
We’re committed to disrupting the status quo through raising funds to deliver innovative, breakthrough research and support programmes that enable men to live happier, healthier and longer lives.
MIND CHWF
We are Mind in the City, Hackney and Waltham Forest – your local Mind. For the last 40 years we have provided advice and support to anyone experiencing poor mental health in our community. Since then, not much has changed. Every year we help around 5,000 people with things like accessing their benefits, finding and keeping a job, and improving their mental health.
We believe that nobody should have to face a mental health problem alone, and we’re working to achieve this through our three values: we are fair, we are brave, and we are connected.
CANCER RESEARCH UK
We're pleased to present Cancer Research UK as one of our national charity partners for the Hackney Half. They pioneer life-saving research to bring forward the day when all cancers are cured. Join their fundraising team today and you can help beat cancer sooner
SHELTER
Home is a human right. It's our foundation and it's where we thrive. Yet, every day millions of people are being devastated by the housing emergency.
We exist to defend the right to a safe home. Because home is everything.
GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL CHILDREN’S CHARITY
Until no childhood is lost to serious illness, we’re here to help give seriously ill children the best chance and the best childhood possible.
LEUKAEMIA UK
Research has the power to stop leukaemia devastating lives.
Leukaemia UK is the UK’s dedicated leukaemia research charity, determined to save and improve the lives of those affected by leukaemia, by funding world-class research and ground-breaking care. We firmly believe that research has the power to make a difference and truly change lives. We want to bring about positive change, through accelerating progress in diagnosis, treatment, and care for those living with leukaemia today and for everyone diagnosed tomorrow and in the future.
ST MUNGO’S
With your help, St Mungo’s can make tonight someone’s last night on the streets.
St Mungo’s frontline workers will be out on the streets every night, helping to bring people in from the cold. This is just the beginning, our workers assess client’s individual needs, to help them get off the streets, and stay off the streets.
Go the extra mile in 2024 and together we can end homelessness for good.
THE ZAHRA TRUST
The Zahra Trust’s mission is to aid those suffering from war, poverty and famine, by providing basic philanthropic needs, enabling them to survive and making them self-sustainable so that they will no longer require aid.
Since it was established in 2008, The Zahra Trust has provided millions of people across hundreds of communities throughout the world with relief and development aid.
BARTS CHARITY
At Barts Charity we make better healthcare possible. We invest in inspiring people, healthcare projects and ground-breaking research, driven by one uniting goal: to transform the health of our East London community.
Join Team Barts Charity and together we’ll drive forward the healthcare improvements and research discoveries that are shaping a better, fairer future for East London.
PARKINSON’S UK
We are Parkinson’s UK. Powered by people. Funded by you. Improving life for everyone affected by Parkinson’s. Together we’ll find a cure.
Join Team Parkinson’s and together we can fund breakthroughs for the Parkinson’s community.
ST JOSEPH’S HOSPICE
Our mission is to provide compassionate, specialist palliative care to people in the diverse community of East London who are living with life-limiting illness. We treat each person as unique, encouraging and enabling them to reach their full potential until the end of their life.
Our care is provided free of charge to anyone in the local community who needs it. We listen to the patient and their family so that we can work together to manage pain and distress whether physical, mental, social or spiritual. We encourage openness and honesty in communication to create an atmosphere of comfort and safety whether in the Hospice, in the patient’s home or in the community.
THE FELIX PROJECT
Good food for good causes.
Right now, millions of people in the UK regularly experience hunger. Yet tonnes of surplus fresh food is thrown away every day. Inspired by Felix, we set out to change this. No one should have to miss a meal.
The Felix Project collects fresh, nutritious food that cannot be sold. We deliver this surplus food to charities and schools so they can provide healthy meals and help the most vulnerable in our society.
ALZHEIMER’S RESEARCH UK
One in two of us will be directly affected by dementia.
As the UK’s leading dementia research charity, we’re determined to stop this from becoming a reality.
We’re working to revolutionise the way we treat, diagnose and prevent dementia. But we will not stop there.
With your support, we will keep going until every person is free from the heartbreak of dementia. We exist for a cure.
THE PEOPLE’S RECOVERY PROJECT
When people are given the opportunity to access residential detox and rehab the results can be transformative for the individual concerned.
The People’s Recovery Project is an innovative charity inspired by real journeys made by individuals experiencing homelessness and addiction through treatment and into recovery. These examples are currently the exception and through shared purpose our community is seeking to make recovery achievable and sustainable for people in this situation.
We are building a community that has the knowledge and understanding to support people on transformative journeys and create an environment where great people can become greater people."
HACKNEY NIGHT SHELTER
Hackney Night Shelter’s vision is for routes out of homelessness for people in need. They have worked with the local community to provide shelter and support to homeless people for over 25 years. They provide year-round emergency shelter for 26 homeless people per night with structured individual plans to assist individuals to move into longer term accommodation.
THE BRITISH HEART FOUNDATION
You may not always be aware of your heart, but it’s there. Beating around 100,000 times a day, keeping you alive. When you run for BHF, you run to help us fund lifesaving research and support people affected by heart and circulatory diseases.
It’s because of you, BHF-funded research is possible. Together, we can make the impossible possible.
Join Team BHF and you’ll receive a running top, free training advice, and the best support on race day.
British Red Cross
For the last 150 years, we have put kindness into action. The British Red Cross has been helping millions of people in the UK and around the world get the support they need when crisis strikes. Our vision is to have a world where everyone, whoever they are and wherever they’re from, gets the support they need in crisis.
We respond to conflicts, natural disasters, and individual crises, and we help people prepare for, withstand, and recover from emergencies. We provide food, water, shelter, sanitation and medical assistance in the most challenging situations. We believe in the power of kindness and that humanity connects us all. Together, we are the world’s emergency responders.   
Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM)
We’re the Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM) and we’re taking a stand against suicide. That means standing against feeling hopeless, standing up to stereotypes and standing together to show life is always worth living.
Every week 125 people in the UK take their own lives. CALM exists to change this - by offering life-saving services, provoking national conversation, and bringing people together to reject living miserably.
