Sports
Mayo Womens Mini Marathon
1, May 2010 - 11:09

Sunday 2 May 2010 @ 12 pm will see the start of the first Mayo Women's Mini-Marathon in Castlebar. Almost 3000 women have entered the race. The mini-marathon covers 10km in Castlebar so it should be a great spectacle indeed. Remember to support your friends, neighbours, colleagues who are participating - see below for the list of charities that are being supported by the runners this year. Support them by getting out and cheering and of course financial contributions are important for a lot of these charities in these current straitened financial times when many of the normal supports are cut back or have disappeared altogether.

Charities that are being supported by the runners in the Mini-Marathon:

• Acquired Brain Injury Ireland( Formerly Peter Bradley Foundation)
• Action Breast Cancer
• Age Action West
• APA(Aids Partnership with Africa)
• Big Brothers Big Sisters of Ireland (Foróige)
• Cara Iorrais
• Chernobyl Childrens Project International, Ballina Outreach Group
• Chernobyl Orphans Fund
• Cheshire Activation Motivation Project C.A.M.P
• Childline ISPCC
• CONSOLE- Bereaved by Suicide
• Croi: The west of ireland Cardiac Foundation
• Duchenne Ireland
• F.F.I(Friends From Ireland)
• Foundation Nepal
• Friends of the Children of Chernobyl
• Habitat for Humanity Ireland and LYIT trip to Africia
• Huntingtons Disease Association of Ireland
• Irish Foster Care Association
• Irish Girl Guides- NW Region
• Irish Motor Neurone Disease Association
• Irish Wheelchair Association
• Kiltane Meals on Wheels
• Knockmore/Rathduff Recreation & Resource Centre
• Lake District Youth Facility
• Marie Keating Foundation
• Mayo Autism Action
• Mayo C.O.P.D (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) Support Group
• Mayo Cancer Support Centre
• Mayo CF Building fund (CFBF)
• Mayo Childrens Initiative
• Mayo Cystic Fibrosis Building  Fund
• Mayo Intercultural Action(MIA)
• Mayo Mountain Rescue Team
• Mayo Rape Crisis Centre
• Mayo Roscommon Hospice
• Mayo Women's Support Services
• Meals on Wheels
• Meningitis Research Foundation
• Meningitis Trust
• Midfield Development Association
• Moy Valley Over 55 Club
• MS Ireland(Mayo)
• Mysthania Gravis
• North West Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
• Order of Malta Lourdes Pilgrimage
• Rape Crisis & Sexual Abuse Counselling Centre Sligo, Leitrim & West Cavan
• Roundfort Kreative Kidz.
• Royal National Lifeboat Institution(RNLI)
• Sandcastles Childcare Centre, Enniscrone
• Special Care Baby Unit (S.C.B.U.) Mayo General Hospital, Castlebar
• Special Olympics Connaught
• The Children's Medical and Research Foundation at Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin
• The Moy Valley Branch of The Dyslexia Association of Ireland
• The Rape Crisis and Sexual Abuse Counselling Centre Service Sligo, Leitrim and West Cavan
• Western Alzheimers Association
• Western Care Association