3 Perfect Reasons Why You Should Run for Charity?

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3 Perfect Reasons Why You Should Run for Charity?
Representing a charity and achieving its goals
and vision of a better world is a great thing
that anyone can do. Charity is something we all
want to do one day, but struggle to find the time
for. In life, we are all stars in our own movies
with our own goals and aspirations to focus on.
Charity is often not high on our agenda. We have
other goals, like raising children, working, or
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• focusing on our fitness and health (perhaps
  through running). Guess what? You can do the
  drive for charity. Running is one of the best
  and most well-known ways to help a charity.
• Every year, millions of runners participate in
  charity events like London Half Marathon for
  Charity as well as many other events such as 5Ks,
  10Ks, fun and mud runs, and marathons. They
  attend an event, choose a charity to represent,
  start a campaign to raise money and awareness
  for the charity, train hard and proudly wear
  their charity's colours on race day. Running for
  charity is just one of the many ways you can
  improve your life.
• Running to raise money for charity increases
  motivation
• If you run for personal reasons, like being
  leaner, smarter, or more energetic, it will only
  affect you. It doesn't matter, right? At the end
  of the day, you are the only one who will not
  benefit. Running for charity is different. You
  run for others. Participating in a charity race
  means you have a responsibility. You will often
  be asked to pledge a minimum amount of
  sponsorship money to fund the charity's mission.
  A game changer. You can raise money to end
  Parkinson's disease or cancer, prevent child
  abuse, prevent poverty, provide better care or
  hospital care for people with disabilities, fund
  air ambulance services, and support mental
  health.
• You can be creative with your fundraising
• Before the event, a popular way to raise money is
  to ask friends, relatives and colleagues for
  donations. Great method, but there are other ways
  to raise money. Why not be creative and have
  fun? Create your own fundraising opportunities.
  When you use your imagination to do something
  different, fundraising becomes fun and creates
  great memories. Creative fundraising makes the
  run special.

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3. Marketing And Sales Skills Can Be Developed
with Charity Runs

• Fundraising means you need to raise awareness
  that you are a charity (marketing) and get
  people to want to donate to your cause (sales).
  Without the ability to market and sell yourself
  and your efforts, it will be difficult for you to
  achieve your goal. Marketing and sales skills are
  invaluable in every situation in life. Being
  able to deliver a message, tell a story, and make
  people believe and see your vision is extremely
  rewarding. Whether you're pitching an idea at
  work, negotiating a mortgage, convincing your
  kids to do their homework, or joining a sports
  team, the concept is the same. Communicating a
  message and engaging people is a skill we need
  to live a great life. Market and sell your
  campaign by posting pictures of your workouts,
  creating status updates, messaging friends and
  family, creating posters to take to any club or
  group you belong to, and commenting on online
  forums. Raise awareness however you can. Shout
  it from the rooftops if you must.
• Finally, if you want to participate in the
  Charity Runs Bradford event in the UK, then our
  Run For Charity platform is there for you.