Run for Charity
Take your run to the next level and fundraise for one of our official charities. You can make a difference to the cause that matters to you.
Superstar Charity Partners
The below x4 charities are our official Superstar Charities for 2025 HOKA Runaway Sydney Half Marathon.
These charities provide athletes the unique opportunity to race as a Charity Superstar for the 2025 event.
What is a Charity Superstar? Charity Superstars obtain several awesome benefits included in their race registration. These include:
- Guaranteed FREE race entry
- Exclusive Charity Superstar Bib
- Priority Check-In at Event Expo
- An exclusive fundraising medal to celebrate your positive impact
Some other benefits typically provided by the charity directly are also noted below:
- Custom designed T-Shirt
- Additional Charity Merchandise
- Direct support for your fundraising campaign
How do I become a Charity Superstar? All we ask is for a commitment to raise $1,000 for one of our amazing charity partners. Simply, find the charity you would like to support at the 2025 HOKA Runaway Sydney Half Marathon below and click 'Apply Now'
Apply today and race for a cause at the 2025 Runaway Sydney Half Marathon!
Sydney Children's Hospitals Foundation
Join Team SCHF and help give all sick kids the running start they deserve. Your support of Sydney Children’s Hospitals Foundation will raise vital funds for Sydney’s world-leading paediatric hospitals and services. With one foot on the front line, and one in the future, we’re here to help all sick kids, no matter where, no matter what. Register today.
Running for Premature Babies
Join Running for Premature Babies, experience our amazing team camaraderie and cross the finish line knowing you’ve given premature babies a better chance of survival! Funds raised provide life-saving neonatal equipment, saving the lives of thousands of sick and premature babies. And, when you raise $200 we’ll send you a free running singlet.
Breast Cancer Trials
Every day, 57 people in Australia are diagnosed with breast cancer, and nine will lose their life to this awful disease. Clinical trials are the only way to get new and improved treatments to Australians with Breast Cancer. The more clinical trials you help fund, the sooner new treatments can save lives and help people who have or are at risk of breast cancer.
Australian Cancer Research Foundation
Our mission is to back brilliant research by giving scientists the technology and equipment they need to find new and improved ways to prevent, detect and treat ALL types of cancer.
Charity Partners Continued
Be sure to check-out our other awesome charity partners below!
To begin fundraising, be sure to select the 'Start Fundraising Button' against your preferred charity.
If you wish to just make a donation, you can do so by clicking the 'Donate Now' for the charity of your choice.
Be sure to get involved and race for a cause at the 2025 Runaway Sydney Half Marathon!
Australian Red Cross
Australian Red Cross is a volunteer-based organisation that exists to reduce human suffering.
With 110 years’ experience and a community of 20,000+ members and volunteers, we act locally and connect globally to deliver what’s needed, when it’s needed most.
Aspect
Aspect supports people on the spectrum and their families by providing information, education and a variety of services aimed at meeting the specific needs of each individual.
Black Dog Institute
Join Team Black Dog and support those living with mental illness. As the only medical research institute in Australia to investigate mental health across the lifespan, Black Dog Institute stands for a mentally healthier world.
Chris O'Brien Lifehouse
Chris O’Brien Lifehouse is a not-for-profit hospital dedicated to treating and researching cancer.
UNICEF Australia
UNICEF is the world’s largest children’s charity working to protect vulnerable children, globally and here in Australia.
R U OK?
We're a harm prevention charity that aims to start life-changing conversations. We want to create a more connected world.
Beyond Blue
Beyond Blue aims to equip everyone in Australia with the knowledge and skills they need to protect their own mental health. All funds raised go towards our 24/7 Support Service, which allows us to ensure anyone in need of immediate, professional counselling is given instant support.
Raise $50 to get a FREE Team Beyond Blue singlet to look the part.
Cure Cancer
Together, we can work together to find the most impactful solutions to cure cancer and bring these ideas to life in record time.
Mark Hughes Foundation
The Mark Hughes Foundation Centre for Brain Cancer Research is a multi-disciplinary, collaborative research centre which brings together scientists and clinicians, consumers and patient care professionals and builds on the University of Newcastle’s established and dynamic cancer research ecosystem and world-class technology, spaces and infrastructure.
Canteen
Canteen is an Australian not-for-profit that provides free and tailored support to young people aged 12-25 who are impacted by cancer. Whether they are dealing with their own diagnosis, a close family member’s cancer or the death of a loved one, Canteen provides a wide array of tools and services to assist.
Lifeline Australia
Lifeline exists to ensure that no person in Australia has to face their darkest moments alone. Our experience has shown us that it is through connection that we can find hope. We are available 24 hours a day to listen, without judgement to any person in Australia who is feeling overwhelmed, experiencing crisis or longs to be heard.
Every 28 seconds, a person in Australia reaches out to Lifeline for help.
Guide Dogs NSW/ACT
Guide Dogs NSW/ACT is the leading provider of Guide Dogs and orientation and mobility services that enable people with low vision or blindness to get around their communities safely and independently.
Each year our highly trained Orientation and Mobility specialists work with around 4,000 people of all ages to help them achieve their mobility goals.
RSPCA NSW
The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals; New South Wales (RSPCA NSW) is a not-for-profit organisation in Australia that cares for, treats, protects and rehomes animals across the state. As a charity, we strive to ensure that no animal is turned away or forgotten, regardless of whether they are abandoned, neglected, injured or surrendered into our care. With an ultimate goal of improving animal welfare education and keeping people and animals together, RSPCA NSW acknowledges the crucial role of humans in keeping our animals safe.
Australian Conservation Foundation
We are more than half a million people who speak out, show up and act for a world where forests, rivers, people and wildlife thrive. Our beloved animals are losing their homes to bulldozing, pushing many of them to the brink of extinction. And once they’re gone, they won’t come back.
When you fundraise with ACF you will be helping to protect our incredible animals like koalas, quolls and pink cockatoos before it's too late.
Nature needs us, now.
Kids with Cancer Foundation
When you fundraise for Kids with Cancer Foundation you will be supporting young families of pre teen children (0-12 years old and under) that are experiencing financial difficulties due to their child being treated for cancer, along with doctors, nurses, social workers, and cancer research.
