BMW BERLIN-MARATHON
Run for charity
Applying for a charity place
To get started, choose your preferred cause from the official charity listing and hit ‘enquire’ to apply to join their team.
How does it work?
Applying for a place through the event’s Official Charity Programme, in partnership with realbuzz, means if your application is successful, you’ll get a guaranteed entry into the event. You just need to reach the minimum fundraising target requested by your charity, with support and guidance all the way through your charity running journey. Each charity has a certain amount of places on their team, which varies by charity, and places are often in high demand so the charity will vet your application. They will get in touch directly to keep you updated on your application.
BMW BERLIN-MARATHON
Run for charity
Select your favourite charity
Click the enquire link and complete the form.
Your charity will be in touch
Your charity will be in touch asap using the contact details you supplied in your application.
Start fundraising
Discuss your fundraising target with your charity and start raising money for a great cause!
Official Charity Partners
You can only have one ‘live’ application to a charity at any one time. Please look through the listings and choose a charity to support that is close to your heart. If your application is rejected you are able to submit an application to another charity or you can withdraw your application at any time by contacting Realbuzz Group and submit a new application to a different charity.
As well as including the personal information your charity will need to get in touch with you, your application will also include some information about your fundraising.
Remember, charities will receive a high volume of applications and will not be able to offer places to everyone. You are more likely to be accepted based on the quality of your application, specifically ‘Why do you want to participate?’ and ‘How will you meet your fundraising goal?’ so please think carefully about your answers.
This will vary between charities, as a charity will close their applications once they have filled their limited amount of guaranteed charity places. To avoid disappointment, make sure you submit your application as early as possible.
Alzheimer's Research UK
- Email Nathan Banks:Nathan.Banks@alzheimersresearchuk.org
We are the UK’s leading dementia research charity. Our vision is a world where people are free from the fear, harm and heartbreak of dementia. We exist for a cure
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American Cancer Society - DetermiNation
- Email Ellis Gamache:Ellis.Gamache@cancer.org
Together, we’ll tackle every course, rally every community, and stay absolutely relentless in the fight against cancer. Join DetermiNation and Make Your Miles More Meaningful
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Free to Run
- Email Our team at: ericka@freetorun.org
Free to Run is a US registered 501c3 organization that operates in Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine and uses running and outdoor sports to develop girls' and young women's leadership and wellness, and addresses gender inequity in areas of conflict.
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Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
- Email Kerri Powell: kpowell@cff.org
Members of the CF Foundation's Breathe Team use their participation in endurance events to raise awareness and the necessary funds to cure cystic fibrosis and to provide all people with the disease the opportunity to lead full, productive lives.
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WellChild
- Email Claire: challenge@wellchild.org.uk
- Call us on:01242530007
WellChild is helping the thousands of children and young people across the UK with serious health needs, giving them the best chance to thrive – properly supported at home, with their families.
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Team Red, White and Blue
- Email John Faunce: john.faunce@teamrwb.org
Team Red, White & Blue (Team RWB) exists to guide veterans through a journey of wellbeing, with real-life and virtual opportunities focused on building a healthier lifestyle because a strong focus on mental and physical health is critical to ensuring veterans’ best days are ahead.
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Team Paws - Paws Chicago
- Email Carrie Cihasky: ccihasky@pawschicago.org
- Call us on:773-475-3315
Helping to make sure every animal, no matter their circumstances, is given a second chance.
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Smile Train (International)
- Email Our team at: teamempower@smiletrain.org
Smile Train's vision is to give every child with a cleft the opportunity for a healthy, productive life. For over 20 years, we have supported safe and quality cleft care for 1.5+ million children.
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Rethink Mental Illness
- Email Our Events Team: events@rethink.org
We improve the lives of people severely affected by mental illness through our network of local groups and services, expert information and successful campaigning.
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MS Society
- Email Our team at: fundraising@mssociety.org.uk
- Call us on:0300 500 8084
We're the MS Society. Whether you have MS, or care about someone who does, our community is here for you. Together, we are strong enough to stop MS.
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Blesma - The Limbless Veterans
- Email our Fundraising Team: communityeventsmanager@blesma.org
Blesma exists to guarantee that our limbless veterans are not failed, forgotten or left to fend for themselves.
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Spinal Research
- Email Georgia Akers: events@spinal-research.org
Funding medical research worldwide to develop effective treatments for paralysis caused by spinal cord injury.
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Whizz Kidz
- Email Events Team: events@whizz-kidz.org.uk
- Call us on:020 7233 9696
We're the UK's leading charity for young wheelchair users
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Save the Children (UK)
- Email Sarah McDonnell: events@savethechildren.org.uk
- Call us on:020 7012 6997
Save the Children Assists Families With Life-Saving Basics From Food & Shelter To Clothes.
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Allyson Whitney Foundation
- Email Barbara: barbara@allysonwhitney.org
- Call us on:845-796-8046
Supporting young adults impacted with rare cancers with Life Interrupted Grants.
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American Liver Foundation
- Email Sarah Morovich: SMorovich@liverfoundation.org
ALF’s mission is to promote education, advocacy, support services and research for the prevention, treatment and cure of liver disease.
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Anthony Nolan
- Email Our Team: events@anthonynolan.org
Anthony Nolan is the charity that makes lifesaving connections between people with blood cancer and incredible strangers ready to donate their stem cells.
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Autism Speaks (US)
- Email Courtney Ryan: teamup@autismspeaks.org
Join us in creating a world where all people with autism can reach their full potential.
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Carol M Baldwin Breast Cancer Research Fund
- Email Karen Vidoli: runteambaldwin@gmail.com
- Call us on:413-281-6573
The Carol M. Baldwin Breast Cancer Research Fund is committed to battling breast cancer by supporting both new, and established researchers.
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Movember
- Email The Team: challenge.uk@movember.com
Movember is the leading charity changing the face of men’s health, focusing on mental health and suicide prevention, prostate cancer and testicular cancer.
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Great Lakes Adaptive Sports Association
- Email Kelly: kelly@glasa.org
GLASA provides year-round opportunities for people with physical or visual disabilities to take part in sports, exercise, and wellness programs.
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Herren Project
- Email Pam Rickard: pam@herrenproject.org
Former NBA player Chris Herren founded The Herren Project to help others navigate the road to recovery from addiction.
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Dementia UK
- Email Kate Johnson: events@dementiauk.org
We are the specialist dementia nursing charity providing free life-changing support and advice to anyone affected by dementia.
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WaterAid
- Email Our Events Team: events@wateraid.org
- Call us on:020 7793 4594
WaterAid is an international not-for-profit, determined to make clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene normal for everyone, everywhere within a generation.
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Homes For Our Troops
- Email Brianna: bperry@hfotusa.org
Join Team Homes For Our Troops (HFOT) and make every mile count for our mission of Building Homes and Rebuilding Lives for severely injured post-9/11 Veterans throughout the United States.
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Imerman Angels
- Email Dave Louthan: dlouthan@imermanangels.org
Imerman Angels envisions a world where cancer is not a solitary experience.
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Keep a Child Alive
- Email Suzanne Gierasimczuk: suzane@keepachildalive.org
Keep a Child Alive is committed to helping children and young people reach their potential, and live healthier, happier lives.
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USA for UNHCR
- Email Kate Jordan-Farmer: stepwithrefugees@usaforunhcr.org
- Call us on:+1 (718) 947-0192 ext. 204
USA for UNHCR provides critical support to refugees to help save, protect and rebuild the lives of millions.
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The Passage
- Email Rachel Verralls: events@passage.org.uk
Our vision is of a society where street homelessness no longer exists, and everyone has a place to call home.
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The National Down Syndrome Society
- Email Our team at: teamndss@ndss.org
NDSS empowers individuals with Down syndrome and their families.
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Mental Health Foundation
- Email Our Events Team: events@mentalhealth.org.uk
- Call us on:0207 803 1123
The UK's charity for everyone's Mental Health. Home of Mental Health Awareness Week.
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Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation
- Email Suzie Brashler: brashlers@themmrf.org
Accelerating the development of next generation myeloma treatments to extend patient’s lives, and lead to a cure.
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The Brain Tumour Charity
- Email Our team at: events@thebraintumourcharity.org
The world’s leading brain tumour charity and the largest dedicated funder of research into brain tumours globally.
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Organization for Autism Research
- Email Sarah Culver: run@researchautism.org
The Organization for Autism Research funds applied research and helps inform the autism community about research based interventions.
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Place2Be
- Email Our team at: events@place2be.org.uk
We’re a children’s mental health charity with over 30 years' experience working with schools across the UK
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Street Child UK
- Email The Challenges Team: challenges@street-child.org
- Call us on:020 7614 7696
Street Child works for a world where every child is safe, in school, and learning.
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St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
- Email Genarda Wright: heroesprogram@alsac.stjude.org
- Call us on:800565-5112
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital® is leading the way the world understands, treats and defeats childhood cancer.
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Release Recovery Foundation
- Email Our team at: doug@releaserecoveryfoundation.org
We are dedicated to helping clients build a strong foundation and lifestyle in early recovery.
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SANDS
- Email Our team at: TeamSands@sands.org.uk
- Call us on:020 3897 6092
We support anyone affected by pregnancy and baby loss, improve bereavement care and support research to save babies’ lives.
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Back on My Feet
- Email Fundraising Team: fundrace@backonmyfeet.org
Empowering people to overcome cycles of poverty, homelessness, or addiction through the power of fitness, community and employment resources.
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Crohn's & Colitis Foundation (USA)
- Email Kat Gunsur-Smith: kgunsur@crohnscolitisfoundation.org
Dana-Faber Cancer Institute & The Jimmy Fund
- Email Sarah LaClair: sarah_laclair@dfci.harvard.edu
The V Foundation For Cancer Research
- Email Our Events Team: TEAMV@V.ORG
- Call us on:919-380-9505
The Institute of Cancer Research
- Email The ICR Sports Team: sports@icr.ac.uk
- Call us on:020 7153 5307
Children of Peru Foundation
- Email Edouard: edouard@childrenofperu.org
- Call us on:1-917-215-1977
Autistic Self Advocacy Network
- Email Autistic Self Advocacy Network: jwinegardner@autisticadvocacy.org
- Call us on:202-558-4864
National Breast Cancer Research Institute
- Email Patrick Casey: patrick@breastcancerresearch.ie
- Call us on:091 863 917
Zoe's Place Baby Hospice
- Email Our team at: generalinfo@zoes-place.org.uk
- Call us on:02476 361 675
Tuesday's Children
- Email Keri Emmanuelidis: keri@tuesdayschildren.org
- Call us on:516-562-9000
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
- Email Our team at: TeamInTraining@LLS.org
- Call us on:(800) 482-TEAM
Still I Run - Runners for Mental Health Awareness
- Email Sasha Wolff: team@stillirun.org
- Call us on:616-780-7382
Semper Fi and America's Fund
- Email Christine Ingraham: christine.ingraham@thefund.org
- Call us on:719-304-4486
The Bell Center
- Email The Bell Center for Early Intervention Programs: development@thebellcenter.org
- Call us on:+1-205-879-3417
Ann & Robert. H Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago
- Email Sophia Paarz: Spaarz@luriechildrens.org
