ERC Presents: Carnival Run 2025

Pictures courtesy of Simon R Photography, Derrick Wess and Emancipated Run Crew

Bring your flags, whistles, foghorns and vibes, for ERC Presents: Carnival Run 2025! This fun run/walk, will start and end at the Venture Community Association in the heart of the Carnival route. We have a 5k route for runners and a 2.5k route for walkers, so you can tek time, run and whine, or walk and look fine! This year is extra special for us as we will be celebrating the 5th edition of Carnival Run and ERC's 5th Birthday!

Date: Sunday 17th August 25, 2025

Time: 1pm - 6pm

Location: Venture Community Association, 103a Wornington Road, London, W10 5YB

Registration: to participate, you need to register for the run and donate a minimum of £1. All donations will be used to cover the cost of the event.

Bring your friends and family along to enjoy run or walk the famous Notting Hill Carnival route, in support of Sickle Cell Society's Give Blood Spread Love campaign, which seeks to: raise awareness of the need for ethnically matched blood to treat people with sickle cell; increase levels of confidence in giving blood; and recruit new donors to the blood donation register. ERC's blood donation champion Brenda will have a stand at the Venture Community Centre with information on how you can change lives by registering to give blood!

At the Carnival Run 2025, we celebrate diversity and honour the rich heritage of the Black/Brown community. This event is all about coming together, having a great time, and embracing the vibrant spirit of unity.

There will be a bag drop at Venture Association, but we're asking all participants to arrive ready to run, with as little baggage as possible!

EVENT DETAILS:

• Meeting place - Venture Community Association
• Distance - 5k for runners / 2.5k for walkers - your choice! You can sprint, run, jog, walk or wok up!

• Meet and check-in and warm-up - from1pm
• Run / Walk start time - 1:30pm
• After the Run / Walk - stay for a mix and mingle as we celebratee ERC's 6th birthday with some some light refreshments.

IMPORTANT NOTES:

• Registration for the event is free, but you are welcome to make a donation when registering. The minimum donation is £5, and we kindly ask you to consider giving at least this amount. All proceeds (less Eventbrite fees) will go directly towards covering the costs of the event.
  
• PLEASE SELECT THE CORRECT TICKET WHEN YOU REGISTER - IF YOU ARE WALKING SELECT A WALKER TICKET, IF YOU ARE RUNNING, PLEASE SELECT A RUNNER TICKET.
• LIMITED EDITION CARNIVAL RUN SOUVENIR T-SHIRTS AND VESTS ARE AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER FROM THE ERC WEBSITE. PLEASE PLACE YOUR ORDER BY 26 JULY 2025 FOR COLLECTION FROM THE VENUE ON THE DAY OF THE EVENT. ERC WILL DONATE 5% OF PROFITS FROM SALES TO THE SICKLE CELL SOCIETY. PRICES WILL INCREASE AFTER 26TH JULY.
• WE START AND END AT THE SAME PLACE - THE VENTURE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION, Faraday House, 103a Wornington Rd, London W10 5Y
• PLEASE GET TO VENTURE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION AS EARLY AS POSSIBLE SO WE CAN ALL WARM UP, SPLIT INTO WALKERS AND RUNNERS AND GO!
• WE WILL CROSS OVER SEVERAL ROADS ON THE ROUTE - CARE AND ATTENTION TO TRAFFIC AND FELLOW PEDESTRIANS IS STRONGLY ADVISED
• WE WILL HAVE RUN AND WALK LEADERS ON THE ROUTE - NO ONE GETS LEFT BEHIND!!!

If you've run Carnival with us before, you know what to do! If you haven't, REGISTER NOW - you don't want miss out on this incredible event! Mark your calendars, grab your whistles, your flags and your running or walking shoes, and get ready to create memories that will last a lifetime. We can't wait to see you there!

Please note this is NOT a closed road event - we'll be hitting the pavements and weaving people and street traffic, but the vibes will be LIVE!

This is a run/walk and not a race, so you can take your time to run or walk the route, however we will be aiming to be back at Venture Community Association by 2:30pm.