Team Gatwick - we've got some exciting news to share! One of the airport's official charities - Surrey & Sussex Healthcare Charity (East Surrey Hospital Charity) is an official charity partner for Run Reigate 2025, and we are getting a team together from the airport! Get ready to lace up your running shoes and join us for an incredible day of fitness, fun, and fundraising on September 21st, 2025, in the heart of Reigate.

This is a fantastic opportunity for the airport community to come together and support some truly vital causes within East Surrey Hospital, and it's sister sites locally (including in Crawley Hospital). We're hoping to muster a great team of enthusiastic runners, walkers, and cheering/support volunteers from across the airport community to help us make a real difference.

So whether you'd like to run on your own, or enter your whole team, we'd love to hear from you. Email sash.charity@nhs.net for info on how to get involved. 

The kids race is always great (we’d LOVE to get a big team of local children running for the children’s appeal!), and adults can choose from the 5k, 10k, or the half marathon.  

Run for your loved one. Run for your friend. Run for the team who cared for you.

Whatever your reason for supporting the hospital charity, we’d love to have you join the Gatwick team running for the hospitals. 

If you commit to raising money for the charity (or one of the specific appeals below) you’ll get an exclusive (brand new!) charity running shirt, as well as a free coffee and/or facepaint on race day!

In addition - if you work for Gatwick Airport Ltd - your fundraising will be DOUBLED as GAL will match your fundraising up to £250!

RUN FOR CHILDREN IN HOSPITAL

The Children's Appeal: With your help, we are working to raise £150,000 to transform the children’s ward in East Surrey Hospital, and to create nicer spaces for children across the hospital. We hope to create a dedicated adolescent mental health space, refurbish areas for younger children, and to make two of the isolation rooms used by children with cancer locally into a real home from home. Your support will also help fund new play equipment, and specialist medical devices. By running for the children’s appeal, your fundraising will help give local children the best possible care, in a setting designed just for them.

RUN TOGETHER AGAINST CANCER

Sadly, too many of us have been touched by cancer. By supporting our Cancer Fund, you can now directly help enhance diagnosis, treatment, and care for people with cancer right here in East Surrey and West Sussex.

Specifically, we hope to raise the money for more scalp cooling machines to help reduce hair loss for people during chemotherapy, to enhance rehab and support for people following their treatment, as well as to support patient support groups.  

RUN FOR PREMATURE BABIES HERE IN EAST SURREY & WEST SUSSEX

500 babies a year are born prematurely, or need additional care in the neonatal intensive care unit at East Surrey Hospital. Olive’s Appeal is the neonatal team’s dedicated fundraising appeal. By running for the neonatal unit, you’ll help enhance equipment, and create comfortable spaces for families during what can be an incredibly stressful time. You'll be helping to give the tiniest members of our community the very best start in life.

RUN FOR EVERYONE WHO NEEDS US

By running for East Surrey Hospital Charity, you will help us do more for people across the hospital. From new babies, to the emergency department, care of the elderly, and everything in between. You’ll receive our brand new, exclusive running t-shirt, and know you’re helping people across our local area, when they need us most. 

HOW TO REGISTER

  • If you’ve already got your own race entry – drop us an email at sash.charity@nhs.net, or you can  set up your fundraising page at https://sashcharity.enthuse.com/profile (there you can choose to run for a specific appeal if you’d like to.
  • If you’d like to raise money for the hospitals and don’t have a place yet – visit https://runforcharity.com/surrey-sussex-healthcare-charity/run-reigate where we have a limited number of FREE entries for supporters. By registering for a free race entry, you commit to raising at least £250 for the charity, and will get one of our exclusive technical running t-shirts.
  • On race day all our supporters who have hit the minimum sponsorship can access a free coffee from our baristas at the charity stand, and (if you’d like!) free facepaint or glitter art from our professional facepainter!
  • To volunteer – We are gathering a team of volunteers to help with cheering our runners on, and a range of volunteer roles on the day, including helping to take donations in a car park we will be operating. If you’re available, and potentially able to help on race day, do get in touch, on sash.charity@nhs.net

We can’t wait to welcome you to #TeamSASH

Lets make 2025 a record breaking year how we do more for people in hospital.