Elliot's Footprint is a charity set up to support families after the sudden death of their child. The charity is named after Elliot, the young son of John and Andrea and who founded the charity. Aged just 2 years old, Elliot went to sleep and never woke up. Andrea and John want to ensure that no other family have to navigate this devastating journey alone.

Help us to keep supporting families. Reaching our fundraising target means we can ensure support is in place for families. A lifeline for many families, this support can and does make a difference towards families staying together, surviving siblings achieving at school and parents being able to remain in work.

In partnership with Child Bereavement UK, Elliot's Footprint fund a family bereavement specialist who can be there with a family from the moment tragedy strikes. It is a Statutory requirement that a Bereavement key worker to help families is in post. Sadly government cuts mean that although this should be provided and paid for by - it isn't and it is left to charities like Elliot's Footprint to fundraise the money to ensure this vital support continues. Our target of £4,500 will help us provide over 200 hours of one to one specialist bereavement support for one family.

To help our fundraising efforts – we’ve assembled a team of fabulous runners who will be undertaking either the Manchester or Leeds 10K. They’ve already started their training and we’d love for you to financially support their efforts. We’ll be providing lots of training updates via this page and our LinkedIn page too – so follow along and virtually cheer them on. We might even convince one or two of them to run in costume!

Whether you can donate, £5, £10, £20 or more - every penny will go towards supporting families. Thank you and further information on the charity can be found by visiting: https://www.elliotsfootprint.org/

See you at the start line!