Early bird discount incentive to sign up for Prospect events

PEOPLE who want to take part in two bright and colourful fundraising events for a good cause are being urged to sign up early by Prospect Hospice following a steady flow of registrations since launching their 2015 events booklet.

What’s more, people who sign up now for the Starlight Walk in June, or the Run the Rainbow colour run in September, can make a saving on their registration fee by taking advantage of an early-bird scheme currently offered by the charity.

The Starlight Walk is an established favourite on the hospice’s calendar, but Run the Rainbow is a new event that’s the first of its type in our area. The popular Starlight Walk is now in its eighth year, and has over time raised thousands of pounds for the local hospice, which last year cared for and supported more than 5,700 people from across the community.

The income raised from the Starlight Walk is specifically for their nursing care for which Prospect Hospice has received widespread praise. Last year’s theme, Light up the Night, proved such a hit that it has been kept this year, with new illuminated surprises and walkers being encouraged to don bright, colourful and glowing clothes for the event.

Run the Rainbow promises to be equally eye catching in a very different way, as the hospice brings a colour run-style event to the area for the first time in September. For the event, runners are invited to run, walk, skip or dance the 5km course at Wroughton Airfield, where they will be showered with coloured powder paint, reaching the end in all the colours of the rainbow. Until the end of March, registration for the Starlight Walk is just £12, and Run the Rainbow is just £15.

Organiser Genevieve Arney from the Prospect Hospice is urging anyone who is keen to take part in either event to register early. “The Starlight Walk is always our biggest fundraising event of the year,” she said. "And already the number of people who have registered so far shows 2015 is going to be a great year. We are also hugely encouraged that so many people have already signed up for Run the Rainbow.

"We’re so excited about this new event, and it promises to be great fun on the day. My message to anyone who wants to take part in either event is to register now while we still have spaces available and the early bird offer is still open.”

To register for Prospect Hospice’s Starlight Walk, visit www.prospect-hospice.net/starlight, and to sign up for Run the Rainbow visit www.prospect-hospice.net/runtherainbow. Each event has a suggested fundraising target of £100. Both events are generously supported by Imagine Cruising.