AJ Bell Great Birmingham Run
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Congratulations to all our 2024 runners.We hope you had an amazing day soaking up everything the event has to offer, from the atmosphere, to the live music and entertainment. You’re all legends! Don’t forget to check out your official event photos, and your results from the day.
The AJ Great Birmingham Run is back on Sunday 4 May 2025.
Enter now to SAVE BIG with our discounted SUPER EARLYBIRD OFFER!
2025 Super Earlybird Offer
The AJ Bell Great Birmingham Run is back on 4 May 2025. Enter now and SAVE BIG with our SUPER EARLYBIRD Offer, but hurry, the offer ends on Monday 13 May.
This year’s event was a complete sell-out, so get in early to secure your place on the start line and bag yourself a saving in the process!
The AJ Bell Great Birmingham Run is the Midlands’ biggest and best running event. Thousands of Brummies pound the streets every year to rise to the challenge of either the Birmingham half marathon or the 10K, with plenty of participants raising cash for good causes. Starting & finishing in the heart of the city, soak up the incredible atmosphere, high-five your way along the course, experience your finish line moment and bask in the glory of your achievement. There’s everything you’d expect from a Great Run – notorious start line hype, top en-route entertainment and an event village that feels more like an after-party – but the carnival atmosphere and the passion and spirit of the runners is all Birmingham.
AJ Bell Great Birmingham Run entries are open to runners aged 15+ (10k) and 17+ (Half marathon) on the day of the event. Super Earlybird offer ends at 10 am on Monday 13 May. A booking fee (£2.50 per entry) is applied at checkout.
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Event Timetable: 5 May 2024
Please note: Timetable is subject to change. Your assembly and start time is detailed on your run number.
2024
Event Guide
The big day is nearly here, and we want to help you with any event day questions so you can focus on the important things: soaking up the atmosphere and enjoying your run.
All the info you need is in the guide, so we recommend having a read though it to make sure you’re prepared. And do check back on this page regularly for any event updates.
Event Day Tips
View Event Day ChecklistRoad Closures
There will be a rolling programme of road closures on event day starting from Pershore Road at 4am. Please click on the link below to view a full list of roads and timings. All roads should be reopened by 5pm. Please plan your journey in advance, and allow for additional time as the road network will be busy.
2024 Finisher Medals
What You Get
We have made the decision to introduce optional finisher tees to our Great Run events. You can choose to forgo a finisher tee shirt at the point of entry, and in lieu of this we will make a donation to the National Trust Woodlands Appeal. Find out more here. We will donate a portion of the fulfilment costs for each runner who chooses this option to the fund and commit that this donation to be approx. £20,000.
Obviously you’ll have bragging rights for the forseeable, but you’ll also get:
The Medal
The Photos
The App
The Discounts
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Great Birmingham Run
Charities
British Heart Foundation is the official charity of the AJ Bell Great Run series this year and we could not be more proud.
When you run for BHF, you can help us achieve our vision of a world free from the fear of heart and circulatory diseases. You run for the people you love. You run to help us fund lifesaving research and support people affected by heart and circulatory diseases. You run to help keep families together for longer.
It’s because of you, BHF-funded research is possible. Together, we can make the impossible possible. Thank you.
Join forces with the team that will get you to the finish line. We’re the only ones fighting over 200 cancer . Our life-saving work is funded entirely by the generosity of our supporters, so every step we make towards beating cancer relies on every pound, and every runner. One in two people now survive cancer. Together we’ve achieved so much, but we won’t stop until we’ve beaten it altogether. Join the team today and we will beat cancer.
The Bobby Moore Fund was set up in memory legendary footballer Bobby Moore, who sadly died from bowel cancer aged just 51.To date the Bobby Moore Fund has raised over £20 million. The funds are spent on world class bowel cancer research carried out by leading scientists working across the UK. With your support, bowel cancer stands no chance. Let’s make Bobby proud and help beat it sooner. Join the Bobby Moore Fund team today.
By 2025, there will be 1 million people in the UK living with dementia. Alzheimer’s Society are there for everyone living with dementia and their loves ones – wherever they are, whatever they’re going through. We campaign for change, fund life-changing research and give help and hope to those living with dementia. Join team Alzheimer’s Society today.
At Birmingham Children’s Hospital Charity, we believe there’s always more we can do for our sick kids and that’s why we will always strive to do more for our patients and families. Thanks to kind and generous supporters like you, we are able to raise the vital funds needed to make a real difference to all who use our hospital’s services, offering them the best experience possible.
At Birmingham Women’s Hospital Charity, we are passionate about improving patient experience for all the women and families at our hospital. Thanks to kind and generous supporters like you, we are striving to provide our patients with a service over and above what the hospital alone can deliver.
Around 2.5 million people are living with cancer in the UK. By 2040, this figure will rise to 5.3 million. With your help we can do more for people living with cancer, giving each person the support they need to look after all that matters and take care of their health, protect personal relationships and deal with work and money worries. We want to help everyone with cancer find their best way through, from the moment of diagnosis, so they’re able to live life as fully as they can. You can be someone who makes that happen. For more details email running@macmillan.org.uk, call 0300 1000 200 or visit our website.
Every year Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham Charity supports more than a million patients and almost 12 thousand staff. From the moment life begins, we’re here for every patient – including children with cancer, transplant patients and those who need lifesaving care. The QE is a centre of excellence and has the largest single-floor critical care department in Europe, is home to the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine, and is one of only six solid-organ transplant centres in the country. It treats children and young adults going through cancer and is also home to Fisher House, a home away from home for military patients and their families to use whilst their loved one is being treated at the hospital.
Solihull Hospital Charity and Community Services supports more than 300 thousand patients and more than a thousand staff. From the moment life begins, we’re here for every patient, from newborn babies right the way up to specialist care for older people. Solihull Hospital is also home to the Solihull Haematology and Oncology Day Unit treating patients going through cancer.
Good Hope Hospital Charity supports 500 thousand patients and more than two and half thousand staff. We support patients including premature babies, cancer patients and the elderly with dementia. The hospital is home to the Midwifery Led Unit which offers a beautifully, calm space for new mothers to have their babies.
Heartlands Hospital Charity supports almost 700 thousand patients and almost 8 thousand staff. We support patients from premature babies to elderly patients with dementia and those who need lifesaving care. The hospital is home to The Princess of Wales Maternity Unit, whose Neonatal Unit offers specialist care for premature and poorly babies from across the Midlands and beyond.
Other Charities
Action Tutoring |
Albion Foundation |
Aston Villa Foundation |
Birmingham Hospice |
Christ Covenant Church |
Cure Leukaemia |
Groundwork UK |
Leon’s Legacy |
Motor Neurone Disease Assocation |
Mybnk |
NICE – Centre for Movement Disorders |
PoTS UK |
Pseudomyxoma Survivor |
PTSD UK |
Royal Orthopaedic Charity |
Safe Families for Children |
SafeLives |
Spinal Muscular Atrophy UK |
St Basil’s |
St Giles Hospice |
Stroke Association |
Team Mikayla |
The McCarthy-Dixon Foundation |
The Oddballs Foundation |
The Quilter Foundation |
The Urology Foundation |