Charities
In recent years Pensby Runners have chosen and donated money to a select local charity. Ideas for charities to support are usually put forward by our membership each winter, and at the club’s AGM in January one of more of the charities are ‘voted in’.
For 2024, the committee have decided not to select a charity for the coming year, but to use the funds usually donated to purchase a portable defibrillator to be used to take to races. The cost includes a charitable donation to the British Heart Foundation. More details and training to follow.
The Wirral Seaside Runs (organised by members of the club) also make donations to local charities, including the Friends of Leasowe Lighthouse, who kindly lend us the lighthouse each month for registration.
Nominated charity 2023
Last year the club supported Raw n Real, a community interest company that specialises in the support of mental health for children, young people and men. We awarded them with a cheque for £500 at the recent AGM in January 2024.
Raw n Real use physical-based activities to support mental and emotional wellbeing, and offer mentoring, mental health-based educational programmes and fitness sessions that include running, combat fitness and functional movement.
Find out more about Raw n Real by visiting their Instagram and Twitter pages.
Previous charities
In 2021, it was decided that the year’s charity would be the Clatterbridge Cancer Charity, a cause close to the hearts of many of our club.
In 2020 the club supported The Charles Thompson Mission who care for Wirral’s homeless population. We donated £500 to their cause.
In 2019 Pensby Runners and the Wirral Seaside Runs supported the Wirral branch of the Deaf Children’s Society. Alison Wallace from the charity came to our AGM in January 2020 to collect a cheque for £500 from the club, and earlier in 2019 the charity also received £500 directly from the Wirral Seaside Runs.
In 2018 we supported the Wirral Branch of the MS Society and the Wirral and North Cheshire Prostate Cancer Support Group.
