BITTEN BY THE RUNNING BUG – Details, episodes & analysis

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BITTEN BY THE RUNNING BUG

The Sapphire Running Zone

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Health & Fitness

Frequency: 1 episode/6d. Total Eps: 89

All around the world, runners are pounding the streets, trails, and tracks with many different aims and objectives. Some are lacing up their shoes to improve their fitness and wellbeing, others are pushing their limits while training for races and endurance events, and many are running with purpose — raising vital funds for charities close to their hearts.

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🇬🇧 Great Britain - Running
04/08/2026
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A 500 Mile Fundraising Challenge: With Sophie Badman

Episode 111

Monday, August 3, 2026 • Duration 25:29

In this episode of the Sapphire Running Zone podcast, Tim Rogers talks to Sophie Badman, an Events Fundraiser at Samaritans, about her running journey and the fundraising lessons she has learned along the way.

Sophie started running in 2018, initially for her own mental health, before turning her first 10K into a much bigger fundraising challenge for Samaritans. She went on to complete numerous events, including half marathons in Dublin and London, and set herself the challenge of covering around 500 miles through her events over the course of a year.

Sophie shares some of the fundraising ideas that worked particularly well, including her Inspire A Mile initiative, virtual running events, raffles, cake sales, approaching local businesses and using social media to keep supporters engaged. She also explains why fundraisers need to keep finding new stories to tell rather than simply sharing the same sponsorship link repeatedly.

Now working with Samaritans runners herself, Sophie also discusses some of the creative fundraising she sees through her role, the importance of crowd support at running events and her own ambitions to return to the half marathon distance and eventually run the London Marathon.

For more podcasts go to https://www.sapphirerunningzone.com/podcasts. We have three channels, this one, one on event podcasts and one for members only. If you'd to be the focus of one just let us know using the chat function on the homepage.

If you'd like to join Sophie and run for Samaritans you can find out more here

Sophie's fundraising page is here.

Keywords: running fundraising ideas, charity running, running for charity, marathon fundraising ideas, fundraising tips for runners, Samaritans fundraising, charity fundraising ideas, running challenge, half marathon fundraising, fundraising through running

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