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Running for Charity |
Run for charity - make a difference and help others
This year, we're offering a limited number of charity places in both our races. We've partnered with seven leading charities:
Bowel Cancer UK,
the Stroke Association,
the Afghan Sports Trust,
Petals Charity,
St David's Hospice,
Size of Wales,
and
Frontline Children.
Cost of a Charity Place
Pay a small registration fee and raise funds for one of our selected charity partners:
 | Ring O' Fire 130: Pay a registration fee of £100 and raise at least £600 for our charity partner. |
| Firelighter 50: Pay a registration fee of £50 and raise at least £300 for our charity partner. |
Why Choose Our Charity Places?
Charity running events transform individual effort into a powerful force for good. They fund vital programmes, raise awareness, build communities, and inspire others. Participants experience personal growth and fulfilment, knowing their efforts contribute to meaningful causes. Corporate support and sustained donations amplify the impact, driving significant positive change and creating a better world.
Supporting Your Fundraising Efforts
Unlike many events, we don’t charge the charity upfront. We also offer discounted entry fees to charities, ensuring they pay less than non-charitable entries. This approach supports both the charity and your fundraising efforts, ensuring the charity won’t incur costs if you don’t raise the money or complete the challenge.
Registration Fee Details
To cover our costs and ensure commitment, we charge a non-refundable registration fee. In the past, some runners signed up without making any effort to fundraise for their chosen charity. By requesting a registration fee, we ensure that only committed and invested runners take a place. This approach has proven effective, ensuring neither the charity nor ourselves are left out of pocket. Charity places are non-transferable and cannot be deferred to future races.
Fundraising Target Deadline
You need to raise at least 80% of your fundraising target by 1 July. Our charity partner will periodically check in to monitor your progress. If you fall short, you have the option to make up the difference or self-fund your entry and continue fundraising independently without a fundraising commitment. If this is not possible, your place in the event may need to be cancelled.
After Sign-Up
Once you've signed up, our charity partner will reach out within 14 days to provide advice and support on achieving your fundraising goals. You should set up a fundraising page with JustGiving or a similar platform so the charity can track your progress. Platforms like JustGiving are excellent for fundraising because they reach a global audience, are easy to use, and securely manage donations. They also provide transparency for donors and charities to see how much you've raised.
If you don't hear from your chosen charity, please contact them directly and email us so we can follow up with the charity for you.
For more information about our charity partners, visit their websites to learn more about their impactful work. We’re also interested in supporting other charities, especially those active on the Isle of Anglesey. If you're a registered charity and would like to discuss fundraising opportunities, please contact us.
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Our Charity Partners |
We are interested in supporting other charities, especially those undertaking charitable activities on the Isle of Anglesey. Please contact us if you are a registered charity and would like discuss fundraising opportunities with us.
Bowel Cancer UK
Bowel cancer is the UK's second biggest cancer killer, with about 16,000 people dying every year. It affects younger people as well as old - and both men and women. It is however very treatable - especially if diagnosed early. Bowel Cancer UK is determined to raise awareness of the symptoms of bowel cancer and campaign to improve diagnosis, treatment and care. We are supporting this very important cause to help save lives across the UK.
A message from Bowel Cancer UK:
"In the maximum time it takes to complete the Ring O' Fire race, 89 people will have died from bowel cancer in the UK. Bowel cancer is the country's second biggest cancer killer, but it shouldn't be. Bowel cancer is very treatable especially if diagnosed at an early stage.
We are determined to save lives from bowel cancer but we can't do this without you. Join our team in either one of the Ring O' Fire or Firelighter events to support vital research and lifesaving work to stop bowel cancer. We want to stop people dying needlessly from bowel cancer and with your support we can."
The Stroke Association
The Stroke Association is the UK's leading stroke charity. But what is a stroke? It’s a brain attack, which happens when the blood supply to the brain is cut off, caused by a clot or bleeding in the brain. It can change lives in an instant.
Stroke is sadly one of the biggest killers in Wales and a leading cause of disability, with around 8,000 strokes occurring each year. There are nearly 69,000 stroke survivors living in Wales.
A message from the Stroke Association:
We believe everyone deserves to live the best life they can after stroke. And that with the power of research and treatment, more lives can be saved too. But we need you to help make this possible. Imagine losing your ability to communicate, by taking part in the Ring O Fire, your fundraising could help pay for a block of communication support workshops, empowering stroke survivors with aphasia to achieve the best possible level of communication. Your Firelighter fundraising could help fund one whole hour of our Helpline activity, supporting those affected by stroke - including families, carers and loved ones.
Thank you for choosing to make a difference by running for Stroke Association.
Petals Charity
Petals is the Baby Loss Counselling Charity. We provide free-of-charge specialist counselling to support the mental health of women, men and couples who experience pregnancy or baby loss. Our counsellors provide a safe space to guide parents through the grief and trauma of their experience to a place of hope for the future.
Specialist psychological care related to pregnancy and baby loss is not available on the NHS even though stillbirth and neonatal death affects 12,400 parents each year and miscarriage is said to occur in 25% of all pregnancies. This year marks ten years since Petals began its incredible work and during that time, thousands of bereaved parents have been supported by our amazing counsellors.
It is our aim that every parent in the UK has easy and timely access to specialist counseling following pregnancy or baby loss. Your support means so much to us and enables us to be there for parents when they need us the most.
A message from a Petals beneficiary:
I don’t know how I could have survived this year without Petals, their help has been invaluable, and I now feel like I can begin to pick up the pieces of my life again.
Afghan Sports Trust
The Afghan Sports Trust is a newly-established charity which raises money to help fund grassroots sporting organisations in Afghanistan.
We've seen first-hand the role that sport can play in bringing people together and building confidence and trust in a country where those things can be in short supply. Individually and together, our trustees* have a history of involvement with a number of amateur sports events and organisations in Afghanistan, and in 2020 we've turned that into a charity. By raising funds to help people in communities across Afghanistan, we believe we can continue to make a big difference to lives and opportunities in that very special country.
"Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire, it has the power to unite people in a way that little else does. It speaks to youth in a language they understand. Sport can create hope, where once there was only despair. It is more powerful than governments in breaking down barriers. It laughs in the face of all types of discrimination." Nelson Mandela
Resources for sports clubs and events can be hard to obtain, and access to them isn’t always possible in an equal way. We aim to focus particularly on young people, and initiatives which are committed to providing opportunities regardless of gender, religion, ethnicity or language.
As a newly formed charity we need to build up a funding base before we are able to provide support, but we anticipate grants being decided on a quarterly basis from 2021. We would of course love your help in building that funding base.
*Ring O’ Fire Race Director, James Bingham (Bing) established the Afghan Sports Trust in 2020. Before this he helped set up the Marathon of Afghanistan and was Race Director from 2015 to 2019.
St David's Hospice
St David's Hospice is a local charity, caring for local people, delivering specialist care to adult patients with advanced illnesses or those in need of end-of-life care and their families.
Every year, this touches the lives of over 1,000 people within our local communities from across the counties of Anglesey, Conwy and Gwynedd.
We offer 24-hour care, 365 days a year providing a clinical service alongside emotional, physical and spiritual support. In our Day Therapy Centres, we provide patient care, bereavement, and counselling services, whilst our Inpatient Units in Llandudno and Holyhead offer symptom control, respite, and end of life care.
This year it will cost over £6 million to run St David's Hospice with just a small percentage of that figure coming from the Welsh Government and Local Health Board. The majority of this comes from community fundraising. None of these costs are passed to the patients, their families or carers, because St David's Hospice care is free to all.
A message from Events and Campaigns Manager, Rhian Jacobs:
The Ring O' Fire is an incredible challenge for any supporter to take on. The route will take you along the spectacular Anglesey coastline and within a stone's throw of the Anglesey Hospice which we proudly opened in 2021. The Satellite unit at Ysbyty Penrhos Stanley allows us to provide palliative care to the people who need us most in our local communities. This year alone it will cost over £400,000 to keep the unit open to our patients and their families. Take on this challenge for St David's Hospice and help us keep our doors open and continue to provide this crucial service.
Size of Wales
Size of Wales is a unique charity that is making Wales part of the global solution to climate change. For decades, the “size of Wales” was used as a unit of measurement for the destruction of our most precious natural habitats. Since 2010, we have brought our nation together to turn this on its head.
Together, we work with Indigenous and local people worldwide to grow trees and protect at least 2 million hectares of tropical forests – an area the size of Wales. We educate and inspire people in Wales to recognise the critical role Indigenous communities play in protecting the climate, biodiversity, and livelihoods.
We campaign to drive policy change and are calling for Wales to become the world’s first Deforestation Free Nation.
Our vision is to help create a future where forest communities can thrive alongside healthy tropical forests—to make our nation part of the solution, rather than part of the problem.
Frontline Children
At Frontline Children, we believe that every child in the world deserves the right to basic education regardless of their social status, gender, background or place of birth.
We focus on helping children access education in some of the most remote and challenging areas of the planet and often in conflict and war zones.
Our mission is to inspire hope and change the lives of children worldwide through access to education. We also believe that education provides physical and psychosocial protection that can save and sustain lives for generations to come.
We provide opportunities for education around the world by providing educational resources, funding, teachers, scholarships and most importantly hope.
What do people say about us?
"Trearddur bay football club would like to thank the ring of fire for there donation for the club / the air ambulance Coastal 125 miles sponsorship walk . All the best to all the ring of fire runners on Friday 13.00 starts at the coastal park Holyhead, 125 miles...... Brutal"
Past Ring O' Fire finisher