Sunderland City Runs and Durham City Run Festival arepartnering with Ecologic, a Gateshead-based renewable energy broker, to provide our runners with more sustainable packaging for water bottles at water stations and on the finish line at the races this year....
- 3rd April 2024
- 2 Min Read
Light nights are on the horizon, however coming out of the winter months it can be hard to re-motivate yourself to stay active. Whether you are working towards your first 5k, training for your next big marathon or simply trying...
- 7th March 2024
- 3 Min Read
National Running Show 2024 Back in January, our EOTN team headed down to the NEC in Birmingham for the National Running Show. Almost 30,000 running enthusiasts flooded the hall across the weekend to see legendary speakers and visit hundreds of...
- 7th March 2024
- 3 Min Read
The Durham City Run Festival will return in July 2024, with some significant changes, including a new partner and revised race routes. The festival will be one of the first major events to take place in the region after the...
- 20th February 2024
- 5 Min Read
Sergio and Emma Petrucci, founders of Red Sky Foundation, have received an MBE for their charity work raising funds for babies and children with heart problems across the North East of England. Red Sky Foundation are the official charity partner...
- 27th October 2023
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Two North East family businesses have teamed up to support each other. Sports race organiser Events of the North has agreed a partnership with logistics firm Pick Pack Deliver that will see the companies working together on projects in the...
- 9th August 2023
- 3 Min Read
Thousands of runners and spectators descended on Durham over the weekend for the biggest Durham City Run Festival to date. Over 3,000 participants had signed up for the schedule of races and other running events, and they were cheered on...
- 17th July 2023
- 5 Min Read
Thousands of people descended on Sunderland to take part in or watch its annual running festival. Over 2,700 participants tackled events at the Sunderland City Runs on Sunday 7 May. In great running conditions, leading club athletes, fun runners and...
- 9th May 2023
- 3 Min Read
The first details have been revealed of the UK’s newest festival, which will make its debut in 2023. Based in England’s South Lakeland, the Wild Goat Festival will bring families together in the outdoors for a weekend of running, cycling,...
- 25th November 2022
- 3 Min Read
Plans for the 12th Active Northumberland Kielder Marathon weekend began in earnest shortly after the eleventh anniversary event drew to a close… …and today (Sunday, October 2, 2022), 12 months on, in the glorious sunshine, thousands of runners turned out in...
- 4th October 2022
- 5 Min Read
