Entries are open and it’s all systems go for the much-anticipated SPAR Daily Dispatch Fun Run on Sunday October 16.
The annual family friendly run/walk starts at the Orient pools at 9am.
There will be a wheelchair-friendly 4km route and an 8km route.
Daily Dispatch marketing manager Kim Daly said entries had officially opened, and readers could visit the Daily Dispatch Fun Run page or entrytickets.net/sparfunrun to enter.
Daly said: “The official beneficiary of the SPAR Daily Dispatch Fun Run is the Sweethearts Foundation for wheelchair donations to disabled people in East London.”
Entries are R90 for adults on the 8km course, R70 for under-16s on the 8km course, R75 for adults on the 4km course, and R50 for under-16s on the 4km course. Corporate entries/group special are R65 each when 15 or more people enter.
Daly asked team and school entries to contact funrun@arena.africa.
The first 2,000 runners to collect their race numbers will get free T-shirts. Online entries close at midnight on Monday October 10.
Late entries can only be done during the race pack collection on Friday October 14, and a late registration fee of R20 will be added to the entry fee. A portion of this will be donated to the Sweethearts Foundation.
Race pack collection will be at Gussies Gifting and Stationery, 98 Old Transkei Road, Nahoon Beach, on Friday October 14 from noon to 6pm and on Saturday October 15 from 10am to 2pm.
Daly said bottle tops and bread tags could be donated at Gussies Gifting and Stationery and would be passed on to the Sweethearts Foundation.
Manual entries can be made at the Daily Dispatch offices in Beacon Bay, Gussies Gifting and Stationery, Sportsman’s Warehouse at Beacon Bay Retail Park, and at Paperback Shack.
Daly said SPAR was the main sponsor and had partnered with the Daily Dispatch for several years.
SPAR Eastern Cape sponsorship and events manager Alan Stapleton said: “It is great to be back after Covid-19.
“This event is wonderful. We at SPAR have a great partnership with the Daily Dispatch.”
The beverage sponsor is Twizza for the first time. CEO Lisle Clark said: “We are growing as a company, and we are excited to be partnering with well-known companies in the province.”
Penny Smith from Gussies Gifting and Stationery said: “Gussie’s Gifting and Stationery is a subsidiary of Page Group, which has a long history of involvement in community events such as the fun run, simply because we are a proudly Eastern Cape and East London company.
“Community events like this are a great way for us to be part of events that bring East Londoners together.”
Smith said being part of an event that generates awareness and support for amazing organisations, like the Sweethearts Foundation, resonates with the company.
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