Events

Wow, what a night we had at the Little Footprints Ball! The event held in November 2023 and organised by our Champion Ambassador Lisa Fox, brought together nearly 300 people, all to support Footprints. The evening had music, dancing, great food and the most amazing auction and raffle prizes, generously donated by an incredible number of businesses. Overall the event raised the most unbelievable amount of £25,147.96! This money will make a huge difference to the children and families we support across the East Midlands, who all live with disabilities.

In November 2023 we held a new fundraising event for our charity, The Rutland NightWalk. The 10km route around Rutland Water, was beautifully decorated with fairly lights and our team included some of our families, as well as our Charity Manager and Chair of Trustees. The amazing team of walkers raised nearly £700 in total, and not only that, we were thrilled to organise a new type of fundraising event which was inclusive and accessible to all.

We're delighted to have raised over £13,000 for our charity at the Robin Hood Marathon 2023! An amazing Footprints team of Half Marathon and Mini Marathon runners, along with volunteers, including official marshalls, completed the famous Robin Hood Marathon on 24 September 2023. Our Patron Richard Whitehead MBE officially started the race and ran with pride in his Footprints Nike running vest. View all the event photos here.

We're delighted to confirm that Footprints Cup 2023 raised an amazing £6886.75 for our charity, nearly £200 more than their record! The family day featured football matches, including Education FC Warriors, raffles, prizes, face paint and more! And after attempting an odd socks Guinness world record last year and missing it by a small number, watch this space for next year!

A team of seven competitors completed Tough Mudder on 25 June 2023, at Belvoir Castle! We were thrilled to have such a wonderful team train for and take on this very muddy challenge, which was also a new fundraising event for our charity. The team all did wonderfully have raised a fantastic amount for us and also helped raise awareness of Footprints, completing the course in our brand new purple fundraising t shirts.

On Saturday 24 June colleagues from one of our Charity Partners, CSL Group, completed the 9 Edges Challenge. They were joined by Karen and Erika from our Education Team and all had a fantastic day, walking 24 miles in total. The event was part of a year long plan of fundraising events, with lots more to come. Find out more here.

For the second year running, we were thrilled to partner with our Patron's charity, The Richard Whitehead Foundation, for their event Run with Rich on 18 June 2023. A fully inclusive event which brought together so many people and organisations, including some of our families and ones who have grown and left our service. You can see the photos from this fantastic event here. 

On Thursday 20 April, one of our Charity Partners, The Southbank Bar in Nottingham city centre, hosted an incredible event - An Evening with the Last Team in Europe. We are very grateful for their support and to everyone who attended the event and donated. Special thanks to our Champion Ambassador Lisa Fox who helped organise the evening and represented our charity. A total of £4,357 was raised for our charity! 

Our wonderful Footprints team of runners for London Landmarks completed the historic half marathon on 2 April 2023. Overall the team, along with our charity partner CSL Group's fundraising, raised an amazing £6000!

On 17 July 2022 we very proudly celebrated our 20 year anniversary of being a charity. We held a huge party for our current and past families, supporters, trustees and volunteers, with football, basketball, dancing, a raffle and more! View all of the party photos here. 

At the start of July Kitty's Dad Gav and his friend Darren walked an incredible 100,000 steps in one day, starting at 3.30am and finishing the challenge at 10pm. They raised over £1,000 for us and Kitty was an essential training partner for her dad!