SANDY FOR STUDENTS
Pick your challenge: 5km, 10km or 21km
We have had hundreds of young people participate in the Sandy Running Festival since our first running of the event in 2021 and we hope they inspire many in the years to come as they certainly inspired us! Any students are welcome to run but many are Year 9 cohorts participating in The Rite Journey™ program. Students take part together as they seize the opportunity to engage in a physical challenge as a community that also enables them to make a positive impact in others lives through their fundraising.
“The Sandy Running Festival is a unique way to safely have students and the whole school community come together to complete a running distance that individually challenges them physically with the ability to raise much needed funds for vulnerable mothers and children in South Sudan. Our school community was enhanced and strengthened through being part of this outstandingly organised event.”
Adrian McDonald,
Teacher and Rite Journey Coordinator, Kings Baptist Grammar School
Get Involved
If you are a student or teacher in a school setting and want to know more about how you can get your class - or the broader school community - involved, here’s the main things you need to know…
Students (with parental permission) register for the distance of their choosing (5km, 10km or 21km) via the registration page on this website.
Students and their families share their MyCause fundraising page with loved ones. All funds raised (after event costs ) support Bright Futures’ projects that help vulnerable people lift themselves out of poverty and life-threatening situations. Each event has a minimum fundraising target and it is encouraged to raise additional funds if they choose, but this is not a requirement for participation.
Sandy Running Festival can provide a guest speaker (at your request) to your school to talk about the event and the impact that students will make through funds raised to help generate momentum.
Compared to many other running events, the Sandy Running Festival is fun and unique thanks to its location, but also safe in terms of it being impossible to get lost on course, having aid stations and first aid personnel throughout the course.
The effort to get your school class or community organised to participate is certainly worth it in terms of the memories, deepening of relationships through a shared experience and pushing a student’s limits of what they thought possible.
It always takes one or two passionate people (whether it be a staff member or student) to help inspire others participation… Be that person! Everyone will thank you later.
Lastly, from our own experience we know how much of an incredible boost and motivator it can be for any person to run their first 5km, 10km or 21km. Participating in these kinds of events is fun as an individual but even better as a group, so what are you waiting for!?
