
Join an active event and support Barnardos!
Support our cause by adding extra meaning to your fitness goals, and use your fun run, cycling or swim challenge to help raise vital funds to break the cycle of disadvantage.
Check out our active challenges below and make huge strides and raise money to support children’s welfare.
Set your goals on one of these active events:

The Sun-Herald
City2Surf
18 October
Run with us. Set your personal best for the world’s largest fun run! Get your friends, family and colleagues involved by forming a team together, train and motivate one another! #TeamBarnardos

Blackmores Sydney Running Festival
8 November
This is your chance to run one of the world’s most scenic courses of Marathon, Half marathon, 10km or 5km family fun run! This is the run that is fun for everyone!

The Canberra Times
Fun Run
10 November 2020
Enter the Canberra Times Fun Run. With a choice of 1km, 5km or 10km, anyone of any age and ability can enter one of Canberra's most welcoming and inclusive Fun Run!

Sydney Classic
Tough Mudder
21 - 22 November 2020
Test yourself with this hardcore bootcamp race of 16km! This fitness phenomenon will put you through your paces in a military-style training regime of obstacle courses and endurance tests in the mud.

The Sydney Morning Herald Sun Run
February 2021
A 7km or a 10km run or aquathon (run-swim-run) from Dee Why Beach to Manly Beach and The Cole Classic, which honours Graham Cole, has 1km, 2km or 5km swims at Manly beach.
Fundraise for Barnardos
Use your fun run, cycling or swim challenge to support Barnardos by raising vital funds to help us break the cycle of disadvantage for children, young people and families.
Not sure where to start?
Contact us via email events@barnardos.org.au or call (02) 9218 2318. We would be happy to help.
Don’t see the event you’re looking for? If you’re looking for a specific race that we haven’t mentioned above, get in touch and we’ll make sure that you join Team Barnardos for the correct event you’re participating in.