Run Your Age 2024
Every step you take and pound you raise helps Age NI be there for older people with essential advice, support, and friendship services when they’re needed most.
Run Your Age
Get involved in four easy steps.
1. Sign up
Sign up by clicking on the link below.
2. Set your challenge
Walk, jog, or run to support lonely and isolated older people.
Billy is 60. He plans to run 60 miles over the course of January.
Niamh is 70. She plans to walk 70 minutes Monday to Friday during January, by walking her grandchildren to and from school and around her local park.
Hugh is 55. He plans to jog for 55 minutes 3 time a week during January.
Julie is 18. She plans to run 18 miles a week in memory of her beloved granny Edna.
3. Start your fundraising
Set up your fundraising page, by following the instructions when you click on the link.
Raise or donate £20 or over and receive your (free) Age NI T shirt.
4. Get ready for January
Plan your activity and get sharing on social media, to tell family and friends about your challenge.
You will be helping people like Jean, who is supported by Age NI’s Check in and Chat service.
Jean was married for 53 years, has one adult daughter when her husband died suddenly in 2019.
When her husband died, she was so shocked and very lonely and did not leave her home for a year. Her husband was the driver and took her everywhere, so Jean felt incredibly isolated and alone, living especially in quite a remote area.
Jean was supported and referred to Check in and Chat, where she now speaks to Rhonda every Monday night. She says: ‘I look forward to it, it has made such a difference to my life, Rhonda is so knowledgeable and talks about any subject, we have really interesting conversations’.
Jean went on to say, ‘This has made such a difference to my life, Rhonda couldn’t be any nicer.’
Jean now gets out and about more, using public transport to visit relatives, attending a luncheon every two weeks at a church in the nearest town, and the community transport network takes her shopping every week to get her groceries.
‘I have great neighbours around me, I know I am not alone, but it’s such a different life than before, I am glad to have Rhonda and the phone call from her once a week, it really helps’.