Strachan Hartley Legacy Foundation Run
Join us to celebrate the 20th anniversary of this beloved community event. Since 2007, runners, walkers, volunteers, and supporters have come together to create opportunities for youth from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Together, we’ve raised more than $750,000. Let’s make our 20th year the most impactful yet.
A Run for Everyone
With a challenging 10km, stroller-friendly 5km and Kids Fun Race this day has something for all ages and abilities. Whether you are a competitive racer or looking to run your first ever 5 km with your kid, we are the run for you! All courses start and finish at Handsworth Secondary in North Vancouver. Extraordinary prizes, pancakes, massage tables, face painting, celebrity guests and testimonies from the incredible Streetfront kids contribute to the extraordinary community feel of this special event.
Run AS A TEAM
Teams can mosey, race, and fundraise! The Run provides families, companies, sports teams and others a unique team-building opportunity. Train together, fundraise together and cheer one another along. Each team must have a min of four participants (2 in the 5km and 2 in the 10km) and no maximum. Prizes will be given for Fastest and Most Money Raised. Fastest will be calculated by cumulative time for the team’s fastest two 5km and 10km times. All teams must be entered online before Race Day.
MAKE A DIFFERENCE
SHLF SUPPORTS STREETFRONT. We need you to help keep Streetfront running. All kids deserve to reach their full potential and many are denied this opportunity due to lack of resources. Streetfront is an East Vancouver alternative school program that fully invests in at-risk youth who have not succeeded in mainstream schools. The results are amazing, with 96% high school graduation rates and hundreds of marathon finishers. Streetfront is working harder than ever to deliver quality education and life-affirming support to at-risk youth. Their goals are high and their results are amazing. Since 2009, SHLF has been able to provide Streetfront with an operating budget that has allowed them to spend 35 school days a year doing outdoor adventures and helping hundreds of at-risk youth finish marathons.
Your contributions support these Streetfront initiatives:
- OUTDOOR ED: Provide 35 days of outdoor education. Hiking, skiing, climbing, canoeing, camping all provide necessary life skills, mental health and resilience. Funds support transport, equipment and associated costs.
- RUN PROGRAM: Sustain the keystone running program. The marathon motto is more relevant than ever: one step at a time. Funds will support shoes and gear where needed, entries and travel funds where applicable.
- EPIC JOURNEYS: Street2Peak started in 2014 as a 10-year venture to take some of Streetfront’s youth to 5 continents. They’ve conquered Tanzania (2015), Chile (2017), New Zealand (2019) and Gros Morne, Newfoundland (2023).
- GIRLS WHO LEAP: Girls who Lead to Empower & Act with Purpose mentors and empowers 120 female-identified youth aged 12-21 from the Downtown Eastside as leaders. Your support provides core funding for this incredible programme to uplift girls.
