Manchester Cares is looking for participants to join our #RemoteRelay team, a virtual relay challenge, with each person running/walking/cycling 10k.

How you can take part:

- Registration is open from 15th June to 6th July 2020

- Sign up to take on a 10k stretch of our #RemoteRelay

- Your 10k section can be completed anywhere you like, and you can choose to run, cycle or walk

- There is a fundraising target of £100

- You will receive a digital fundraising pack, with instructions, fundraising tips, and a printable baton template!

- We will give you a date to complete your 10k slot, on the week of 20th July - use strava and send us a video of you completing your section and passing the baton on!

- Then, the next person in the team will have 24 hours to complete their 10k relay!

Why do we need your help?

With half a million older people going at least five or six days a week without seeing or speaking to anyone at all, the need to build connections has never been greater.

Manchester Cares seeks to reduce loneliness amongst older and younger people, alike, by connecting them, through our face to face programmes. However, due to Covid-19 we have had to transition these programmes to virtual ones.

We are delivering 12 virtual social clubs per month, for older and younger neighbours, plus 4 phone social clubs, for those with no internet. Together they come together over a quiz, some chair yoga or a virtual dance.

We continue to create new phone friendships, so far we have paired 49 local older and younger neighbours up to share stories and keep one another company.

We are sending out #AloneTogether activity packs to 690 older neighbours each month, containing daily creative distractions

We are making approximately 50 check-in calls each week to ensure that no one faces this crisis alone.

So why not tackle loneliness and take on a 10k for your neighbours this summer?