PUPILS joined university students for an annual fun run to raise money for charity.
Over 900 children from local schools met with students from Durham University at the Maiden Castle sports centre in Durham City today (Thursday, February 26).
Organised by Durham University’s events management team, the school pupils took part in running events to raise money for Sport in Action based in Lusaka, Zambia.
The charity aims to improve the lives of young people through sport and recreational activities.
The Fun Run will help raise money for a group of Durham University students that are travelling to Zambia this summer to give their time and energy promoting sport in Africa.
Schoolchildren from Years One to Six, took part in the 600 metres, 800 metres and 1000 metre events.
The project was formed in 2005 in a unique union between a UK Sport initiative and a selection of UK Universities who collectively make up theWallace Group (the Universities of Stirling, UWIC, Bath, Durham, Loughborough and Northumbria).
The partnership selects and trains specialist sports and media students from the six universities who travel out to the Zambian capital Lusaka.
They spend the summer weeks working with local volunteers, organising and delivering School PE lessons, community sports programmes and health awareness workshops within the deprived areas of the city’s compounds.
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