THE GREAT CUMBRIAN RUN 2025
THE 41st GREAT CUMBRIAN RUN
Cumbria's leading Half Marathon returns to Carlisle on Sunday 5 October 2025.
Better and Sport in Action are proud to manage The Great Cumbrian Run!
Better are the largest charitable social enterprise delivering leisure, health and community services across the UK. We operate over 250 leisure centres across the UK and Ireland. We are a Social Enterprise and a not-for-profit charitable trust which simply means that our profits are put back into the facilities we run and the local community - Because you run, local children can enjoy school holiday activities. Because you run, more people can learn to swim.
Sport in Action is a well-established events company that run events in and around Carlisle. Founded in 2012, their mission is to provide high quality events with athletes at the heart of their work - ensuring safety, integrity and respect for all at every event. Solway Coast Marathon, Carlisle Resolution Run, Castle 5k Series and The Santa Dash for Jigsaw Childrens Hospital are just some of the annual races in and around Carlisle.
So why not start now? Get entered and start your next challenge today! Entries bookable from 5 October 2024.
Entries to the 41st Great Cumbrian Run will close on Wednesday 1 October at 8pm.
All other entries will close on Thursday 2 October at 11:59pm
THE GREAT CUMBRIAN 10K RUN
The Great Cumbrian 10K - Starting along side the Half Marathon, the mainly closed-road 10K route will go through the City Centre then head up Brampton Road taking the turning into Rickerby park turning right passing the War Memorial to the fallen of the Great War (1914-1918) crossing the Memorial Bridge and running along the new path back to Bitts park and then to the finish on the track at Sheepmount Athletics Stadium.
View the course here
Family Fun Runs
OUR CHARITY PARTNERS
I CAAN – Making a Difference for Families Living with Autism
I CAAN provides meaningful and fun activities for autistic people and their families in Cumberland. Run entirely by volunteers, who many are parents of autistic children, we understand the challenges families face and work to create safe, inclusive and supportive experiences. I CANN organise a wide range of family-friendly activities, including swimming, bowling, soft play, horse riding, craft workshops, sports sessions, Youth Café and the I CAAN Hub, as well as family day-trips. This vital support enables families to have family time and make positive memories.
Hospice at Home Carlisle and North Lakeland
About Hospice at Home Carlisle and North Lakeland
Hospice at Home Carlisle and North Lakeland provides vital palliative and end-of-life care to patients and families across North and East Cumbria. Our specialist nursing, occupational therapy, complementary therapy, and lymphoedema services are offered free of charge, bringing expert care, comfort and compassion into the heart of the community.
By taking part in the Great Cumbrian Run, participants running in support of Hospice at Home will help ensure that more local people can receive the care they need in the place they choose — surrounded by those they love.
Learn more: 👉 www.hospiceathome.co.uk
Every Life Matters
Every Life Matters is a suicide prevention and suicide bereavement support charity. Our work is focused primarily on Cumbria, which has some of the highest suicide rates in England, but we provide training and consultancy to a range of sectors across the UK.
Since 2020 we have delivered over 25,000 suicide prevention training places in Cumbria, including our Suicide Safer Schools programme. We undertake a range of awareness raising, education and campaigning activity as well as production of a variety of suicide prevention and self-harm digital and physical resources, some of which have been rolled out across larger parts of the UK. We also provide a range of specialist and personal support for people and organisations bereaved and impacted by suicide in Cumbria. If you would like to take part in the Great Cumbrian Run and fundraise for Every Life Matters, please email jessica.montgomery@every-life-matters.org.uk
For more information visit every-life-matters.org.uk.
Jigsaw
Eden Valley Hospice is a charity dedicated to providing specialist care for adults in north Cumbria who have life limiting conditions, whilst also providing care and support for their families, friends and carers.
Jigsaw, Cumbria’s Children’s Hospice provides day to day care, support and activities to children and young people from across the county living with a life limiting illness. Our care is provided in a home from home setting, where each young person’s care is personalised towards their own needs.
All the care the hospice provides to its patients and their families is free at the point of delivery. It costs the Hospice over 5 million a year to provide this vital care and with the NHS only funding 20% , the Hospice relies solely on the remaining 80% from our generous community. If you would like to take part in the Great Cumbrian Run and fundraise for Eden Valley Hospice, please email Megan.Dart@edenvalleyhospice.org