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This year, will you take on a challenge?

Whatever pushes you out of your comfort zone, be it a physical or mental challenge…you choose the activity, you choose the date!

Whatever you do, every step you take towards completing it will make a huge difference to the lives of local people.

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We’re seeing a hugely increased demand for our services.

Whether that’s people experiencing homelessness or at risk of becoming homeless, people experiencing poverty, people facing isolation and discrimination, or people facing other acute crisis situations, it’s vital that we take action now to support them.

Will you please take on a challenge this year to help us work alongside local people so they can transform their lives?

From runs or sponsored walks, readathons to bake sales, playground challenges to sponsoring others who are taking on their own activity in aid of Caritas Salford, there are lots of ways you can get involved.

However you choose to take part, every step you take will make a huge difference to the lives of people in Greater Manchester and Lancashire.

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Ways to get involved

It’s simple to take part. Simply choose your challenge (one of ours below or create your own!), decide when you want to do it, and set up an online fundraising page to start to collect sponsorship…

There are lots of challenges you can take part in, and we’ll be announcing lots of other activities you can be part of throughout the year too.

If your resolution for 2025 is to get fitter, why not sign up to take part in a physical challenge for Caritas Salford as part of our team this year? There are lots of ideas below…

If you prefer to create your own challenge, that’s great too. We’d love to hear from you about what your challenge will be, so get in touch and let us know! We’ll be here to support you Every Step of the way…

You can also download your free fundraising pack at the bottom of this website page, or by clicking here now.

Join our Manchester Marathon team

The Manchester Marathon, which will take place on 27 April 2025, is the UK’s second largest marathon, with over 30,000 runners and more than 150,000 spectators.

We’re offering registrations at a reduced £75 for charity runners who pledge to raise £300 for us. Please click below to book your place.

Book your place now

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The Great Manchester 10k

If you pledge to raise a minimum of £250 for Caritas, we will secure one of our charity places for you at the 10K Run on Sunday 18 May 2025.

Find out more and arrange your place now

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Set up your own challenge now, whether physical or mental – and get going!

From reading challenges to bake sales, quiz nights to sponsored silences…anything goes! What will push you out of your comfort zone…?

Choose your own challenge and when you’d like to do it, set up a fundraising page using the link below, and get started!

Set up a fundraising page to get started

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Run elsewhere!

Get fit, challenge yourself, raise awareness and funds for Caritas projects.

From Heaton Park to Aintree, Blackburn to Delamere…there are lots of other runs coming up that you can take part in.

Find out more

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A scenic sponsored walk in Lancashire

Fresh air, great company!

Register your interest now for our popular sponsored walk in the beautiful Lancashire countryside.

We’d love you to join us for our 2025 walk…So, what are you waiting for?  Click below to register your interest and we’ll keep you updated!

Register your interest now

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ForCorporate Relay at Media City

Join us for the ForCorporate Relay at Media City.

The relay is for teams of five people from the same company who will all cover 5km (running or walking).  Fancy taking on this with your team-mates?  We’d love to have you and every step will make a huge difference to the people we work alongside in local communities too…

Find out more

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Person in red Caritas tshirt running in the Great Manchester run

But I still haven’t found what I’m looking for…

Take a look at what else is available for getting fit and raising funds for local people by clicking the link below or by scrolling down a little further to see some additional running challenges you might be interested in…

Thank you!

Take a look at other opportunities now

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Where the money you raise goes

It costs £12,000 per day to provide the level of service and support being delivered in Caritas projects across Greater Manchester and Lancashire.

Which means that everyone who needs it is able to access urgent practical help required, as well as any advice and support that will help them for the long term.

Every single donation matters because it means nobody is turned away or left behind.

These are just some examples of how your donation could be used to provide critical support – right now – or help someone begin to transform their own life with dignity.

Click here now to make a donation…

  • £110
    could mean we can provide a weekly shop for a family in crisis
  • £250
    could provide items for wellbeing activities programmes like cookery, art, sport or music
  • £350
    could provide everything needed for a raised bed or plot in our community allotment, such as plants, tools, clothing and compost
  • £1,500
    could provide a room for a year for someone, preventing them becoming homeless

Did you know?

620

square miles…that’s how far our services span across Greater Manchester and Lancashire.

1000s

of people access our services every year and we’re privileged to work alongside them to help them transform their lives.

277

amazing volunteers support our work. We couldn’t do what we do without them!

“I can’t tell you how much this means to have support. Things are so hard at the moment and I’m really grateful for everything you do. My boys don’t know where the food comes from, but they know they will be fed.

Person accessing our services

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News

  • Every step matters for Bronte

  • Every step, everywhere 

  • Bishop John’s Every Step challenge

  • Stepping out for others…

  • Appeal for runners as demand for services soars

  • Bishop John Arnold – why Every Step counts

  • Bonkers about bungee or impassioned about inflatables…?

  • Jayne steps out to raise much-needed funds

  • Join our sponsored walk in Lancashire

  • Parents and babies prepare for sponsored pram push

  • Peter steps out for 200 mile walking challenge

  • Will you join Father Chris as he takes on an epic fundraising challenge?

  • Lalley team puts best foot forward for National Walking Month

  • ‘Peely’ good challenge for our Red Door Centre

  • Epic fitness challenge for Cornerstone and Morning Star

  • School Service team puts best foot forward for fundraising challenge

Every donation helps change a life. You can make a difference now.

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