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Join our partner family

Become our sponsor

Race for Life is the UK's number 1 mass participation charity event

. We have an exciting opportunity for your brand to join our partner family for the 2026 season onwards.

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Get in touch

If you're interested in more information on becoming our partner, please get in touch.

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Together in powerful partnership

Get in touch to discuss how we can co-create our partnership to focus on what's most important to you.

For 2026 and beyond, we have a rare opportunity for a new Headline Sponsor to join us. We also offer a Tier 2 sponsorship package.

The commitment deadline to enable partner inclusion on all marketing assets for the 2026 season is the end of September 2025.

Why join us?

  • Sponsorship – with full range of marketing benefits including TV advertising, to drive brand consideration, trust and engagement.

  • Brand activation – connect your brand, products and services with over 250,000 people in direct digital comms and at 450 UK events.

  • Drive sales – benefit from the association of your products and services with one of the UK's most loved events and charities.

  • Customer and staff participation – show them you're invested in their communities and their health and wellbeing.

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One of the UK's biggest fundraising events

Since starting in 1994, a staggering 10m people have taken part, raising £970m for life-saving cancer research. Come and join us as we smash the £1bn milestone.

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Together we will beat cancer

Nearly 1 in 2 of us will get cancer in our lifetime

. Taking part in Race for Life is a powerful way for people to come together to make a positive impact on their own health as well as supporting life-saving research to beat cancer.

References

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    *Ahmad AS et al, British Journal of Cancer, 2015