Charity Places
Phoenix Energy Belfast City Marathon
Location
Stormont Estate
Date & Time of Event
2rd May 2027 at 9am
Distances
Marathon & Team Relay
Charity Place Packages
- Story Spotlight on Eventmaster Instagram
- Logo added to Eventmaster website
- Logo and link featured on BCM website/Charity Section
- Early opportunity to book your space at the Expo (first come, first served)
- Inclusion in BCM Newsletter
- Access to runner management console (Priority support contact)
- Dedicated charity toolkit (email templates, social graphics, fundraising tips)
- Access to fundraising webinars with live Q&A
- One free Marathon place at the time of purchase
- Logo added to Give2You website with 30 words of copy
- Logo and advertorial featured on BCM website
- Early opportunity to book your space at the Expo (first come, first served)
- Inclusion in BCM Newsletter
- Charity spotlight on Give2You Social with BCM reshare
- Opportunity for presence in the finish area, subject to planning
- Access to runner management console
- Fundraising support packs for charities and fundraisers
- Two free Marathon at the time of purchase
- Story spotlight on Eventmaster instagram
- Logo added to Give2You website with 50 words of copy
- Interview with the official media partners (timing at the discretion of the partner)
- First preference to be located at the cheer station/charity mile/water station
- Early opportunity to book your space at the Expo (first come, first served)
- Inclusion BCM Newsletter
- Weeklong charity spotlight on Eventmaster & BCM socials (reshare)
- Opportunity for presence in the finish area, subject to planning.
- Access to runner management console (Priority Support contact)
- Marketing support packs for charities and fundraisers
- Early access to future event charity places sales
- Dedicated charity success interview with charity or runner to be posted on Eventmaster socials and shared by BCM
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Frequently Asked Questions
A charity place is a marathon or relay entry purchase by your charity, which you can sell or allocate to supporters. All fundraising activity linked to the place benefits your charity. It includes resource packs, entry for runner, dedicated support from give2you team.
Yes, you will need to be onboarded with give2you to avail of Official Event Charity Places. Click here to onboard.
Full Marathon – £180 per person
Relay Team – £255 per team
View the slide deck at the top of the page for step by step instructions on how to buy charity places.
- Card – Places are available immediately in your Benefactor Portal under the Event Charity Places tab.
- Invoice – Places are available once the invoice is marked as paid.
Charities must purchase a minimum of 5 charity places per invoice order. There is no minimum for card orders.
31st January 2026 is the deadline to purchase charity places.
11th April 2026 is the deadline for runners to register.
Charities can communicate a threshold the fundraiser must meet before your charity releases the access code.
Yes you can buy as many more as you wish after your first purchase.
You can add a custom widget that you can easily embed on your website that leads straight to your charity place interest form.
You can also send out a direct URL link for runners to apply to run for your charity as well as promoting it on your charity social channels.
There are two ways to assign a place:
Option A: If the runner already has a Give2You fundraising page, assign the place using the Existing Page tab.
Option B: Assign the place via the Manual Entry tab – a fundraising page will be created automatically and sent to the runner.
Option C: Public applications- We can supply you with a widget for your website that will gather runners’ information who are looking for a charity place in the event. This widget is also ours and the Belfast City website for all charities who have purchased places.
You have full control over when an access code is released once you are happy with the runners fundraising efforts. Once released, the status will change to Code Released.
The runner will need to register for the event before the closing date of applications. Once registered their status will change to Complete so you will know that they have registered.