The Best Foot Forward Challenge.
Have fun, running, walking, jogging in support of local charities.
What’s it all about?
The event poster from 2025- update coming soon…..
Best Foot Forward is a community initiative, devised and organised by the Rotary Club of the City of Wolverhampton, which is staged annually on last Saturday in June at WV Active, Aldersley, in order to raise funds for charities.
The event is supported by some thirty community-minded corporate Patrons who each contribute to the creation of a fund. This fund will ensure that each charity will receive a minimum of £3,000, but achievement of a target number of laps by those taking part will boost the charity pay-out to a maximum of £5,000 for each charity.
Those taking part can spend as long or as little as they choose at the event and return as often as they choose in the course of the day, with a personal chip keeping tally of how many laps have been covered. When finishing for the day a certificate is available, recording the number of laps covered.
This event, created in Wolverhampton, is virtually unique in the UK and provides the opportunity to take exercise at your own pace and at your chosen time, while at the same time knowing that the calories you are burning off are going to improve the lives of others.
The essential difference between Best Foot Forward and a typical sponsored run is that, for the latter, entrants are required to sign up personal sponsors and then collect and pay over the sponsorship monies.
For this event, there is no obligation to seek personal sponsorship –
all that the entrants need to do is to simply take part – the charity funding comes from elsewhere.
The event was first held in 2013 and over the eleven events since then £138,646 has been raised for the Event Charities.
The Charities.
Each year the Charity fund is split three ways, between the Club’s own Charitable Trust and two others.
The Event Charities for 2026 and 2027 are
Wolverhampton Coronary Aftercare Support Group (WCASG)
and The Rotary Club of the City of Wolverhampton Charitable Trust
Other fundraising.
While there is no obligation for entrants to seek personal sponsorship, we invite other charities and organisations to use Best Foot Forward as their own sponsored walk/run, retaining everything that their supporters raise.
In the period up from 2013 to date this opportunity has enabled a variety of organisations to boost their own funds by £95,379 – making a total of £234,025 for Charities from the staging the event.
In 2026. as an additional incentive for charities to maximise their funds, there will be an opportunity to take advantage of a “BFF Bonus” from the City of Wolverhampton Rotary Club. This will be up to £500, based upon laps covered by the Charity’s supporters
Full details are given elsewhere on this website.
Best Foot Forward ’26 will take place at WV Active, Aldersley,
on Saturday 27th June.
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