Why fundraise for Breathing Matters?
In 2011, we founded Breathing Matters to help fund research into pulmonary fibrosis, bronchiectasis and other interstitial lung diseases and lung infections.
We elected to remain a small charity so that we could focus your donations directly to our research, unlike larger charities who have larger overhead costs. In 2019/2020, almost 99% of your donations went straight to our research. Our funding enables earlier initiation of research projects at UCL and UCLH; to get quicker preliminary data to underpin grant applications to receive leveraged funding for larger studies; and provides vital pieces of equipment and staff to carry out the research. Read our impact report for more information.
We are here because of your support. We have so many fundraising events and ideas for you to choose from. However you fundraise for us, we applaud you and thank you from the bottom of our hearts … and lungs!
Choose your event
We have so many events that you can sign up for with our event partner, Run for Charity. Our most popular national events include the following.
- Royal Parks Half Marathon
- Brighton Marathon
- Cardiff Half Marathon
- Bath Half Marathon
- Hackney Half Marathon
- London 10K
- Manchester Marathon
Just visit the R4C website at https://runforcharity.com/charity/breathing-matters and choose your favourite challenge.
You can access running training plans for distances from 5K up to a marathon here: https://runforcharity.com/start-to-run/running-training-plans.
Local challenges
You might prefer to opt for challenges more local to yourself. Please choose the relevant link and see your options.
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