Great North Run 2025

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Great North Run 2025

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Registration for the 2025 AJ Bell Great North Run has now closed. If you would like to hear from us when 2026 applications open, please register your interest here.

Join #TeamShaftesbury and take on the world's largest half marathon! Experience an electric atmosphere as you run from Newcastle to a stunning beach finish in South Shields.

If you’re looking for a bucket list running event with an incredible Geordie welcome, the loudest and most supportive crowds around an epic 13.1-mile course jam-packed with entertainment and music, and a finish line party like no other, then the AJ Bell Great North Run is for you.

Whether you are aiming for a personal best or have never run before, we will be with you every step of the way. Running for Shaftesbury makes you an important part of our team and you’ll make a positive difference to the people we support.

About Shaftesbury:

Shaftesbury is the disability charity that’s committed to enabling children, young people and adults to live a life that adds up for them. 

What makes life livable is never down to just one thing – it’s the sum of many things. From friendship to fun; from companionship to community; from thrill-seeking to thriving – it all adds up to Shaftesbury.

Through a wide range of disability care, special education, and rehabilitation services, we promote inclusion and wellbeing for all. Together, we work to see people take part, contribute and be valued. We put the elements in place that all add up to connected lives.

Find out early about all our challenge events

From running to cycling and even skydiving, why not raise your heartbeat at the same time as raising funds with Shaftesbury?

We have places for some of the most exciting - but difficult to enter - challenge events in the UK.

Just sign up to be notified in advance every time we get a new one available for you to enter