Join Team Social Bite for Edinburgh Marathon Festival 2024

At the end of May, we celebrated our biggest Edinburgh Marathon Festival ever with over 40 runners joining the movement to end homelessness and raising over £15,000 in support of Social Bite and the mission to end homelessness.

From junior runners on Saturday, to individuals and teams taking on the half and full marathon on Sunday in difficult warm conditions, it was a truly a spectacle seeing how far we’ve grown and how many runners chose to support Social Bite.  We’d love to share some of the amazing stories from our Edinburgh Marathon Festival:

Junior Runners Join The Movement
Social Bite has supporters across all ages and two of our younger members, Daniel (5) and Lewis (10), took part in the Junior 1.5km and Junior 2km challenges; fundraising in support of Social Bite. With the sun shining, it was an amazing day of fun and it was great to see them both with their finisher medals and smiling faces to head back into school on the Monday and shout about their wonderful achievements. Well Done!

A Memorable Marathon
We know the Edinburgh Marathon will live on even longer in the memory of all our Social Bite runners, and for some this run marked some very special milestones. We had runners like Laura take on her first ever marathon, pushing herself to reach new limits in her support of Social Bite, we had flatmates taking on the marathon together for Social Bite and helping each other along the way from training to the big day itself, and more experienced marathon runners like Rolf who astonishingly achieved his goal of completing the marathon in under three hours. For us, being able to hold our first ever Edinburgh Marathon Festival cheer station on Portobello Promenade (with cowbells and cheering all morning), and being able to see the highest number ever of Social Bite runners in their lovely Social Bite T shirts cross the finish line was particularly a special moment for the Social Bite team.  What an achievement by all the runners!

Teamwork Makes The Dreamwork
As well as individuals taking on the Edinburgh Marathon Festival in aid of Social Bite we had an amazing workplace team from long term supporter of Social Bite, Jacobs, enter participants across the different runs and raise funds for Social Bite. The enthusiasm of the whole team to support each other through their training, during the run itself, and in their amazing fundraising was so wonderful to see. Thank you so much for your continued support Team Jacobs!

 

 

2024…

 

Registrations are now open for the Edinburgh Marathon Festival 2024 and we are looking for runners lace up their running shoes and join Team Social Bite.

We have places across all the challenges so whether you are interested in the full marathon, the half marathon, one of the team relays, or a junior event, please do reach out to our team at community@social-bite.co.uk to hear about how you can secure your Social Bite place next year.

 

A massive THANK YOU to every single Social Bite runner and everyone who donated to a fundraising page for our runners, your support will help these incredibly important programmes and projects to continue to break the cycle of homelessness and support people to transform their own lives.

Roll on 2024!