RUN FOR CHARITY

Charity 2025

The Wilmslow Running Festival is a charity in itself, organised by volunteers, from Wilmslow Running Club, Wilmslow Rugby Club, and the Phoenix Sports Club - with the aim of supporting local sports clubs and other local causes.

We are delighted to announce our 2025 charity partner is Bare Necessities Toiletry Bank!

Bare Necessities is a grassroots charity, founded in February 2018, after hygiene poverty was headlining. to collect and distribute toiletries within the local community. It is a registered charity in England and Wales number 1193427

At present Bare Necessities Toiletry bank supports 35 local charities and organisations. We encourage local people to donate toiletries and hygiene essentials at our donation points and local businesses to host our donation boxes, either on an ongoing basis or for a short corporate toiletry drive. Bare Necessities Toiletry Bank needs all full-size, everyday toiletries, feminine hygiene products, dental and baby products as well as hotel and beauty miniatures. The only proviso is that they must be unopened and unused.

To reach out to as many people as possible we work with existing organisations and charities whose clients are suffering financial hardship or poverty. This way in helping a few, we help many.

Being able to extend their conversation around hygiene poverty to our community of runners is extremely positive for a grassroots charity.