
AJ Bell Great South Run
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The AJ Bell Great South Run is probably the world’s favourite 10 mile running event (there’s a 5k option too), with inspiring history, salty air and glorious sea views guaranteed. Portsmouth’s supporters will keep your spirits and motivation up the whole way round, with blaring music, cheers, high fives, fist bumps all part of the incredible Great South Run experience. Plus, there’s a medal, an exclusive finisher t-shirt, and bragging rights at the finish line. There’s a reason our runners say they’d recommend it to a friend – lots of reasons, in fact. This year, we celebrate 35 years of the world’s greatest 10-mile event, so don’t miss your chance to run, celebrate, and to be part of the biggest party on the South coast!
Following the cancellation of the 2024 event (due to adverse weather) there are a very limited number of places available and entries are selling fast! So hurry, secure your place now before it’s too late.
Make the AJ Bell Great South Run a family celebration and get the kids involved in the Junior or Mini events on Super Saturday. Find out more here.
Great South Run entries are open to runners aged 16+ (10 mile) on the day of the event. Booking fee (£2.50 per entry) is applied at checkout.
What Makes It Great?
Free Great Run Series Event Day Tracking App
Access Exclusive Runner-Only Discounts via Our Rewards Platform
Free Training Plans and Support up to Event Day
Get 10% Off When You Refer A Friend
Run Past Some of the City’s Most Famous Landmarks and Breathtaking Sea Views
Music and Entertainment to Keep You Motivated
Run number personalised with your name
Event Timetable: 19 October 2025
Please note: provisional timetable may be subject to change.
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What You Get
We have made the decision to introduce optional finisher tees to our Great Run events. You can choose to forgo a finisher tee shirt at the point of entry, and in lieu of this we will make a donation to the National Trust Woodlands Appeal. Find out more here. We will donate a portion of the fulfilment costs for each runner who chooses this option to the fund and commit that this donation to be approx. £20,000. To view our full Environmental Strategy, please click here.
Obviously you’ll have bragging rights for the forseeable, but you’ll also get:
The Medal
The Photos
The App
The Discounts
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AJ Bell Great South Run Charities

British Heart Foundation is the official charity of the AJ Bell Great Run series this year and we could not be more proud.
When you run for BHF, you can help us achieve our vision of a world free from the fear of heart and circulatory diseases. You run for the people you love. You run to help us fund lifesaving research and support people affected by heart and circulatory diseases. You run to help keep families together for longer.
It’s because of you, BHF-funded research is possible. Together, we can make the impossible possible. Thank you.

Join forces with the team that will get you to the finish line. We’re the only ones fighting over 200 cancer . Our life-saving work is funded entirely by the generosity of our supporters, so every step we make towards beating cancer relies on every pound, and every runner. One in two people now survive cancer. Together we’ve achieved so much, but we won’t stop until we’ve beaten it altogether. Join the team today and we will beat cancer.

The Bobby Moore Fund was set up in memory legendary footballer Bobby Moore, who sadly died from bowel cancer aged just 51.To date the Bobby Moore Fund has raised over £20 million. The funds are spent on world class bowel cancer research carried out by leading scientists working across the UK. With your support, bowel cancer stands no chance. Let’s make Bobby proud and help beat it sooner. Join the Bobby Moore Fund team today.

By 2025, there will be 1 million people in the UK living with dementia. Alzheimer’s Society are there for everyone living with dementia and their loves ones – wherever they are, whatever they’re going through. We campaign for change, fund life-changing research and give help and hope to those living with dementia. Join team Alzheimer’s Society today.

Show your support for the 10,000 people a year diagnosed with leukaemia by joining Leukaemia Care, the UK’s leading leukaemia charity. By running for Leukaemia Care you are helping to ensure that everyone affected by a leukaemia diagnosis, receives the best possible information, advice, treatment and support.

At Macmillan, we give people with cancer everything we’ve got. If you’re diagnosed, your worries are our worries. We will move mountains to help you live life as fully as you can. And we don’t stop there. We’re going all out to find ever better ways to help people with cancer, helping to bring forward the day when everyone gets life-transforming support from day one. We’re doing whatever it takes, but we couldn’t do what we do without you, thank you so much for your support.

Portsmouth Down Syndrome Association is an award-winning charity with royal approval committed to improving lives, opportunities and outcomes by providing friendship, information and a wide range of some of the UK’s best specialist educational services and social opportunities for children and young adults with Down syndrome across the south. We work hard to raise awareness, champion inclusion & celebrate diversity because when people with Down syndrome are given opportunities to participate & be fully included, the whole community benefits.

The Brain Tumour Charity is the world’s leading brain tumour charity and the largest dedicated funder of research into brain tumours globally. Committed to saving and improving lives, we’re moving further, faster to help every single person affected by a brain tumour. We’re set on finding new treatments, offering the highest level of support and driving urgent change. And we’re doing it right now. Because we understand that when you, or someone you love, is diagnosed with a brain tumour – a cure really can’t wait.

Until no childhood is lost to serious illness, we’re here to help give seriously ill children the best chance and the best childhood possible. We do it by funding ground-breaking research, cutting-edge medical equipment and life-changing support. By running for TeamGOSH, you will be supporting seriously ill children have childhoods that are fuller, funner and longer. And to say thank you, you will receive training and fundraising tips, a GOSH running vest and support on the day. Join TeamGOSH today! challenges@gosh.org 020 3841 3164

Pompey in the Community support the lives of over 36,000 people of all ages every year, but we want to support more. The cost-of-living crisis has meant our services are becoming more integral to the lives of those we support. You will help us harness the motivational power of Portsmouth Football Club to enable and empower individuals to thrive, foster social integration and create a community where people can flourish and belong.
Join Team Pompey in the Community to create lasting, positive change.

Run for Portsmouth Hospitals Charity and help support the local Hospital to enhance patient care and support staff wellbeing. From innovative medical equipment, to patient experience to research each £1 will make a massive difference locally. Come and join the team!
Other Charities
Action for ME |
Adopt South |
Air Ambulance Charity Kent Surrey Sussex |
AMEND |
Bibic |
Billington Foundation |
Brake – The Road Safety Charity |
Brighterway |
Building Heroes |
Charity Right |
Children with Cancer UK |
Coeliac UK |
Cure Leukaemia |
Cure Usher Syndrome |
Deafblind UK |
Debra UK |
Diabetes Research & Wellness Foundation |
Encephalitis Society |
Endometriosis South Coast |
Foothold |
Foster Porstmouth |
Fresh Start Future Enterprises |
Harry’s HAT |
HEART |
HIVE Portsmouth |
Hospice UK |
Hounds for Heroes |
Jon Egging Trust |
Kidney Research UK |
Lewis-Manning Hospice Care |
Mariposa International |
Military vs Cancer |
Mountbatten Isle of Wight |
Myaware |
Naomi House |
National Deaf Children’s Society |
National Eczema Society |
Neuroendocrine Cancer UK |
Nicholls Spinal Injury Foundation |
No Limits |
Off the Record – South |
Orchid |
Over the Wall |
Pandas Foundation |
PAPYRUS |
Parkinson’s UK |
Paws2Rescue |
Pompey in the Community |
R;pple Suicide Prevention Charity |
Ripples of Compassion |
Rose’s Way Foundation |
Rowans Hospice |
Royal Naval Association |
Royal Surrey County Hospital Charity |
Rugby Against Cancer |
Safe Families SafeLivesSeas Your FutureService Dogs UKSmile TrainSolent MindSpark Community SpaceSt Catherine’sSt Wilfrid’s HospiceSUDC UKSupport our ParasThe Eikon CharityThe Mariposa TrustThe Noah Jordan FoundationThe Oddballs FoundationThe Rainbow Centre The Royal Marines CharityUKSAWellbeing of WomenWessex Cancer SupportWheelpower