HW Moon Toyota Run Wigan Festival ‘23 raises £30,000

Our biggest event since 2018, doubled last year's total raising an awesome £30,000!

We had more than 2,500 runners taking part in the Half Marathon, 5k and Family Mile races - our biggest numbers since 2018 - and hundreds of supporters at our Event HQ at Mesnes Park.

An incredible £30,000 thanks you to all our fabulous runners, supporters, fundraisers, volunteers, sponsors and event partners! Thank you for taking part, supporting and being part of another awesome day! Despite the odd downpour (or three) we had fantastic numbers on the day, twice as many runners in our flagship Half Marathon race. We also had lots of food and drink and live entertainment over in the Bandstand at Mesnes Park, we think our new home for the past two years is a big hit.

And to cap all that off, Sunday's event also saw an incredible NEW RACE RECORD for our men's HM winner in the shape of Tom Charles from Chorlton Runners. He knocked just over a minute off the previous best in a stunning time of 1h 09m 40s. As well as £100 in vouchers from our Associate Prize Sponsors The Endurance Store, Tom took home an extra £50 cash bonus prize from Joining Jack. For the record, our first three home in the Men's and Ladies Half Marathon and 5k races were: