Runner roundup: Our brilliant team member Liz

Joining our wonderful group of runners for the ABP Southampton Marathon for a third year is Liz, our colleague, who is participating in the10K.

Running for our organisation makes Liz’s challenge especially meaningful. She witnesses daily how essential our work is: supporting the isolated, easing loneliness, boosting social connectedness and offering neighbourly help across the city.

Liz has run the 10K before and is aiming for the brilliant time of one hour this year. She’s feeling good about training, she says, and is highly motivated to fundraise our charity, which she believes in so strongly.

Her support system includes her husband Paul, who is also running the 10K – making this a true family effort for a cause they both deeply care about.

Liz’s fundraising will be done online and via paper forms, reaching out to her networks to help raise the money we need to continue our life-changing work. Our collective fundraising target for all of our runners and walkers is £1,500.

From the office to the running course, Liz embodies our spirit of community, compassion and hard work. We’re delighted she has risen to the challenge once again this year for us and has enlisted Paul too!

How to sponsor Liz

Liz has her own JustGiving page here, but you can also sponsor her and our whole team via our page here.

How to get involved

Join our team of runners or walk one of the routes – sign up is available online here.

Liz adds: “Not keen on running or walking? No problem! We still need amazing supporters – our brilliant ‘Communicheerers’ – to cheer us on. Our very own CommuniBear will also need someone to help him as he raises our spirits along the route!”

If you’d like to get involved, please email events@communicareinsouthampton.org.uk.

Let’s make this year’s event our strongest and most joyful yet!

Find out more here.