Fun Run
The Team Durham annual 5k run takes place on February 14th. Last year over 900 students, staff and members of the local community took part in the event, creating a great atmosphere that was enjoyed by all. Over £4,000 was also raised for Sport in Action Zambia, the chosen charity of Team Durham.
You can obtain entry forms from the Graham Sports Centre - Maiden Castle, the Athletic Union office and the DUCK office. Alternatively, you can download the entry and sponsorship forms below.
If you don't want to run the whole way you can enter a relay team of five and run just 1k each.
Entry fee: £5.00
Sponsorship Money: Can be raised for the cause of your choice, including your University or College sports club.
About Sport in Action Zambia
Sport in Action is a non-government funded project based around the development of sport. The Sport in Action Zambia Team has ten full-time staff fronted by an Executive Director, Clement Chileshe, with additional volunteer support recruited from the communities. Their strategy covers sport development and social development through sport. This strategy is centred on a series of projects in the community and at their headquarters in Lusaka. The team deliver development programmes out on the compounds and in non-government funded schools, lead workshops for adolescent girls and run festivals around sport, traditional games and fitness. All of these areas of delivery are underpinned with education on HIV/AIDS, child rights, alcohol and substance abuse. The life-skills learnt through the workshops aim to empower young people in Zambia to use sport and recreation as an outreach tool for communication, prevention, peer education on HIV/AIDS and the promotion of healthy life styles.
Durham University established a partnership with Sport in Action five years ago and whilst we continue to support the project in many different ways Durham has now been joined by other Universities through the formation of The Wallace Group. This is a partnership involving the UK universities of Bath, Durham, Loughborough, Northumbria, Stirling and UWIC. These six universities work together on joint sport development projects that provide added value to the students of the partnership universities and to the communities in which they work.
The Sport in Action Zambia project is being developed in conjunction with UK Sport through the IDEALS (International Development of Excellence and Leadership through Sport) advanced programme. This innovative, ground breaking partnership has the potential to dramatically impact on the lives of thousands of young people living in and around Lusaka, as well as providing a life changing experience for the UK students taking part who will themselves be the leaders of tomorrow.
