Run for Charity
Make your race count.
About our partnership with GivenGain
We’re proud to partner with GivenGain for Run Fest Silverstone, making it easier than ever for participants to turn every mile into real-world impact. Using GivenGain’s trusted and intuitive fundraising platform, runners can seamlessly raise money for the charities and causes closest to their hearts while focusing on their race-day goals.
In 2025 alone, the Run Fest Silverstone community raised just over £100,000, a powerful testament to the generosity and commitment of our runners. Together with GivenGain, we’re helping to amplify that impact year on year—empowering participants to raise more, support more causes, and ensure every stride truly makes a difference.
Silver Charity Partners
Race Against Dementia
Race Against Dementia is a global charity founded by Sir Jackie Stewart OBE after his wife was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia. Its mission is to accelerate research into preventing, treating, and ultimately curing dementia by funding and supporting the world’s most promising early-career scientists and research teams. They use a “race-like” mindset inspired by Formula 1 to speed up breakthroughs in understanding and tackling dementia.
Bronze Charity Partners
Shine Cancer Support
Shine Cancer Support is a UK charity dedicated to helping adults in their 20s, 30s and 40s who have been diagnosed with any type or stage of cancer. They provide tailored peer support, resources, social meetups, workshops, events, online groups, and networking so younger adults facing cancer don’t feel isolated and have community and practical help throughout their journey
Roald Dahl’s Marvellous
Children’s Charity
Roald Dahl’s Marvellous Children’s Charity is a UK-based charity providing specialist nurses and support for seriously ill children and their families.
Roald Dahl Nurses are a vital lifeline to the whole family, coordinating care and providing access to emotional support. They help families feel less overwhelmed and isolated and more in control.
The charity also offers Family Support Services, including financial advice and emotional support, and aims to ensure every seriously ill child in the UK has access to this specialist nursing care.
Sport in Mind
Sport in Mind is the UK’s leading mental health sports charity dedicated to transforming lives through sport and physical activity. Founded in 2010 in Reading, Berkshire, the charity uses the power of sport to support people experiencing mental health challenges, helping them improve their wellbeing, physical health, confidence, and social connection. Their programmes are inclusive and free, welcoming people of all abilities and fitness levels — whether someone is new to sport or more experienced — and focus on fun, supportive activity rather than competitive performance.
CAFOD
CAFOD (the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development) is a UK-based international development and humanitarian charity working to end poverty and promote justice around the world. It is the official overseas aid agency of the Catholic Church in England and Wales and part of the global Caritas network. CAFOD partners with local experts in more than 40 countries across Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East to support communities in tackling poverty, responding to emergencies, and building long-term solutions to challenges such as conflict, climate change and inequality. They work with people of all faiths and none to provide practical help, raise awareness of global injustice, and advocate for policies that protect human dignity and promote the common good.
Ben - the automotive industry charity
Ben is the automotive charity, dedicated to providing health and wellbeing support for life, to automotive people and their families. They deliver free and confidential life-changing and often life-saving support to those who are struggling or in crisis.
Helen & Douglas House
Helen & Douglas House is the world's first children's hospice, supporting terminally ill children and their families in Oxfordshire and nearby counties. They provide life enhancing care at the Oxford hospice, at home and in hospital, helping families create lasting memories ensuring that every child and family receives exceptional care wherever and whenever they need it. As a local charity, they rely on your support to raise £6 million each year to fund their vital services.
WAY
WAY Widowed and Young is the only national charity in the UK for men and women aged 50 or under when their partner died. Founded 29 years ago, WAY now has more than 4,500 members and provides peer-to-peer support to young, widowed people – inclusive of sexual orientation, gender, race and religion – as they adjust to life after the death of their partner.
WAY offers its members:
A secure members’ only website where members can chat online 24 hours a day
Access to a telephone support service that offers free counselling
WAY organised weekends away
Online Zoom chats and socials
Member organised meet up’s for drinks, meals out, walks and picnics.
Maggie’s
Maggie’s provides free expert cancer care and support in centres across the UK and online. Every Maggie’s centre is a welcoming space where you can find support with money worries, tips on managing stress, and a friendly place to go when you need someone to listen. Understanding everyone's individual circumstances is central to what we do. It means we can guide people to the support that will make the most difference to them.