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The Great North Run 2026

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The Great North Run

Event Date: 13th September 2026

Target: 13.1 miles

Event Location: Newcastle

Registration Fee: £30 

Fundraising Target: £400

The Great North Run is the biggest and most popular half marathon in the UK and the most successful running event in the world. Starting in Newcastle upon Tyne, the 13.1-mile route takes in all of the city’s iconic sites. The run was devised by former Olympic 10,000m bronze medallist and BBC Sport commentator Brendan Foster.

Register your interest in joining the Great North Run 2026 and have a chance to run and fundraise with Team NTUK. 

If you have any questions, please get in touch with our Fundraising Team: email fundraising@nervetumours.org.uk or call 0208 439 1234

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Meet Our 2024 Runners!

"Thank you to Nerve Tumours UK for allowing me to run the GNR 2024 while supporting the charity. This was my first GNR and first half marathon event and I am pleased to say that I managed to surpass my sponsorship total and also hit my target time of sub 2 hours, coming in with a 1 hour 54 minute duration. Today, the day after the race I feel a little stiff, but I would do it all again in a heartbeat! I will be signing up for next year's GNR and I would love to run for Nerve Tumours UK once again."

– Michael Carlson, 2024

"It was wet but the atmosphere was still buzzing! I led the chant of ‘Oggy oggy oggy’ in several of the underpasses, to which I got the traditional response of ‘Oi Oi Oi’! A fabulous race tradition. I would 100% recommend the Great North Run."

– Joanna Elson, 2024

Registered Charity Number: 1078790 and SC045051

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Eric Legius, MD, PhD, University Hospital Leuven

Prof. Ellen Denayer, University Hospital Leuven

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Masterclasses in NF: NF1 Dermatological Manifestations

Pierre Wolkenstein, MD, PhD, Hopital Henri-Mondor, Paris, France

Laura Fertitta, MD, Hôpital Universitaire Henri Mondor

Sirkku Peltonen, MD, PhD, University of Gothenberg, Sweden

Masterclasses in NF: Breast Cancer in NF1 - Gareth Evans

Masterclasses in NF: Breast Cancer in NF1

Gareth Evans, MD, University of Manchester, UK

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David Pang, MD, ChB. Guys and St Thomas' Hospital NHS Trust, London

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Said Farschtschi, MD, University Medical Center, Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany

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Eric Legius, MD, PHD, University Hospital of Leuven, Belgium

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Andre Rietman, PhD, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands

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Thomas Pletschko, PhD, Medical University of Vienna, Austria

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Masterclasses in NF: NF1 Pediatric Management - Rianne Oostenbrink

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Masterclasses in NF: Associated Glioma in Children - the Optic Pathway and Beyond - Amedeo Azizi

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Masterclasses in NF: NF1 Malignant Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumours - Rosalie Ferner and Viktor-Felix Mautner

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Prof Rosalie Ferner, Consultant Neurologist and Lead Clinician for Neurofibromatosis, Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London. Member of the MAB of Nerve Tumours UK and Trustee of Nerve Tumours UK