canada water 2024

We were thrilled to be returning to Southwark Park Athletics Track for our second Canada Water event. 

Stephen from parkrun joined us on stage to encouraged the kids join their local Junior parkrun every Sunday. 

Big shout out to our amazing Better Leisure coaches: Alyson, Sam, Yulia, Matt and Chimoi who who expertly warmed up the groups and organised fun games. And of course thank you to all the volunteers who made this a hugely successful event.  

What a turnout! Canada Water did not disappoint.  

Pupils, parents, teachers, and even headteachers – everyone brought their A-game and took to the track with incredible energy!  

The support and cheering from the sidelines got all our runners motivated. Congratulations to all who completed the course. It was priceless to see the smiles and the sense of accomplishment as our runners received their medals.   

 What an incredible collective fundraising effort! We cannot wait to see the children thrive with the new swimming programme, sports equipment, PE competitions, and outdoor learning opportunities. We are incredibly grateful to our corporate sponsors,  Art-Invest, British Land and Australian Super for their support - £5,000 for each school will make an immediate and direct impact on the education experience of these children. 

"This superb community event brought so many children together from across schools in the local area to take part in running to raise money for their schools. Thank you to the organisers, to our parents for volunteering and of course to all of the children, for running their best race."

"We were fortunate enough to be able to donate the fruit for the Run Canada Water Run 2024 and Run Kids Run were great to work with and very communicative. A big congratulations to every child and family member that participated and to the organisers for putting together this experience for such a great cause, supporting the education of young people. We hope you all had a fantastic day."