The glamorous and lovely Christine Bleakley of One Show fame has shown her support for the HEROES RUN and passingiton while awarding our very own James Macdonald the Postman of the Year award from the Royal Mail!

James became a postman after starting the charity in order to dedicate his afternoons to drumming up support for passingiton and our main fundraising event, the HEROES RUN.

Like in every aspect of his life, James has given the Royal Mail his all but instead of basking in his own glory at the awards ceremony, where he was recognised as the nation's best postman, James took the opportunity to spread the word of passingiton and gained the fully-fledged support of Christine who couldn't wait to wear her HEROES RUN t-shirt and kept it on for the rest of the event. She also promised to wear a passingiton wristband on the One Show that night! 

Passingiton is very proud of James and would like to thank Christine for all of her support - we hope to see you at next year's run!

All the best,

The HEROES RUN team

HEROES RUN, the flag ship event for the charity passingiton, took place on Sunday 16th May 2010. 

Well done everybody who were part of the first HEROES RUN WEEKEND! This was without a doubt our biggest and best year yet, and that is all down to the 1500+ runners who pulled on their capes and ran. From the LAUNCH party on the Friday to the run on Sunday morning and right through to the WRAP party on Sunday night your sense of fun and enthusiasm for our causes has truly humbled us.

A more detailed report on the event will be posted up soon but for now why not have a browse through the photo gallery of our official photographers, Media Attentiion. 25% of all photos Media Attention sell goes to passingiton so if you want to preserve your memory of the day you can do so in a way that continues to support our charity. Photo Gallery

GUINNESS WORLD RECORD ATTEMPT

All photos have been taken and we are now in the process of collating them all so that they can be posted of the the Guinness book of Records for approval. We will let you know shortly the number of supeheroes we recorded for the "most superheores in one place" world record attempt. It is then GWR's job to verify our proposal.

Because passingiton is a volunteer led charity, every single penny raised from HEROES RUN goes straight to our worthy causes: To help support education in some of the poorest places in Africa.

In January we travelled to the Gambia to set up project three. We are now dedicated to raising £125,000 to help build a skills centre in one of the Gambia's poorest areas, Kwinella. The video below shows details of our new undertaking, and how you can get involved!

With several projects under way, we rely on the support of you beautiful people. There are several ways that you can help us reach our targets for each project:

Set up a sponsorship page for you running efforts

Make a donation to passingiton

Buy a T-shirt (as modelled by Christine Bleakley)

Volunteer - As well as volunteering at the run, there are lots of roles available for anyone that wants to help - we always want to hear your ideas so get in touch at passingitonline@googlemail.com