Annual colour run raises £18,000 for Isabel Hospice

The event was for all ages with a great turn out from families and friends running together. The ‘rules’ were very basic – the runners had to start off wearing white and then at each kilometre a variety of coloured powder paint was thrown over them so that when they crossed the finish line they were multi-coloured.

This is the third year that Isabel Hospice have organised the event and it saw a record number of runners with over 1,000 people turning up to take part and many more spectators. With sponsorship funds still coming in the current total raised is over £18,000.

In addition to sponsoring the event and manning the last paint station, VolkerWessels UK employees took part in the run.

Adrian Shah-Cundy, corporate responsibility director at VolkerWessels UK said: “VolkerWessels UK were proud to sponsor the event and honoured to be able to take part on the day. I only hope the runners had as much fun being showered with paint dust at the finish line as we did throwing it! I realised afterwards however, I was perhaps covered in more paint dust than many of the runners! Well done to Isabel Hospice for organising such a special event and it was great to see so many people take part on the day to support a very important cause. Hopefully next year the aim could be for 1500 runners.”