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Why run

5 reasons to participate

Run to cure

In Europe, 35,000 children and young people between the ages of 0 and 23 are diagnosed with cancer every year. Little is known about the causes of these cancers and there are many different types. This makes each type of paediatric cancer a rare disease that struggles to attract sufficient scientific research.

As a result, survival rates have stagnated over the past 20 years and children continue to be treated with drugs that are sometimes more than 50 years old – while over the same period, innovation exploded for adults.

The treatments are not only old, they are also toxic and 2/3 of the children who recover, experience severe side effects (like secondary cancers caused by the treatment of the first cancer, amputation or blindness). .

To boost research in paediatric oncology and select the most promising projects in Europe, our KickCancer Foundation, Imagine for Margo (France), the Fondation Kriibskrank Kanner (Luxembourg), CRIS Cancer Foundation (Spain) and KiKA (the Netherlands) have joined forces and launched the FIGHT KIDS CANCER initiative. The funds you will raise for RUN TO KICK will be pooled together with those from the races organised in France, Luxembourg and Spain. They will be used to finance the best research projects in Europe.

Run to care

It isn't the sportiest marathon runners, but young patients and their families who take centre stage at RUN TO KICK, because they are our biggest stars on this day.

It's an opportunity for families affected by children’s cancer to get together and gather around them their friends and colleagues who didn’t know how to help them during this storm

Mobilising others to advance research is also a great form of group therapy for these families.

Come and experience this festive, positive, light and moving day. RUN TO KICK offers a powerful dose of hope and solidarity to families affected by childhood cancer and to everyone who wants to support them.

Run to be together

Running, walking, crawling, or being carried? It doesn’t matter!

At RUN TO KICK, it’s the one who raises the most money that gets to stand on the podium!

No need to be a great sportsman: RUN TO KICK brings together all ages and all physical conditions. What they have in common is that they all have a furious desire to kick children’s cancer far away!

This is the perfect opportunity to steal away the podium from your marathoner friend!

Families, friends, companies… Everyone can participate in RUN TO KICK!

Run to be fit

2 km, 5 km, 10 km… choose the challenge that fits you best!

Everybody is moving, but (almost) nobody is a real sportsman at RUN TO KICK. In any case, if you have not raced in 5 years or 6 months, you won’t risk arriving last.

In fact, this is the perfect opportunity to get back into sport with joy, pursuing a noble goal! RUN TO KICK has no time registration, so no one will know your real running time ;-)

On the other hand, it’s just like a real race: with a warm-up and stretching sessions, provision stands with healthy products and running t-shirts are offered!

Run to enjoy

Mark Sunday 27 September 2026 in your agenda! We will be expecting you in Brussels to experience RUN TO KICK together. We already know in advance that it will be a fantastic day you’ll always remember. We are fully committed to delivering a professionally organised event, creating the perfect atmosphere, offering an engaging sporting experience, and fostering a strong sense of community.

How to fundraise like a champ?

Fundraising

Every runner is expected to raise a minimum of €200 (€100 for minors and students under 25) through their RUN TO KICK fundraising page.

You can share the link to your own page, your team's or your tribe’s page to solicit donations. If your supporter chooses to make a donation on your team's or tribe’s page, the donation will automatically be equally split between the team members who are registered at the moment of the donation. 

No worries, fundraising goes much easier than you think! Especially for you, we've gathered the best advice from the world's top fundraising experts on this page to inspire you on how to fundraise super effectively!

In any case, 100% of the funds you raise will be used to fund research on children's cancer.

Do you want to find out which projects KickCancer finances with your donations? Please click here to find out more about our projects.

You can do it!

You really want to participate in RUN TO KICK but are afraid of never succeeding to fundraise €200? This page is written for you!

Getting started with fundraising is not as difficult as it seems. For those of you who are afraid of asking your friends and family to donate, we have gathered the best advice from the world's top fundraising experts. After this inspiring read, you're on your way to smashing your personal fundraising goal!

Messages to ask for donations:

Rule #1: Remember that you are not asking for money but for a donation… and you are doing this because you want to help finance research to cure children with cancer. It is not because you want to buy a jacuzzi.

Rule #2: Equally important. Tell you friends and family that ANY amount donated will make you super happy.

Rule #3: You have to follow the RULES

A successful request follows a specific approach that we are about to share with you:

• Send a personal message (Hello *Jack*).
• Choose a moment where your prospective donor is least likely to be busy (for young parents: avoid the evening bath time, for grandparents: shoot before their favourite TV show begins)
• Do not forget to include two key points in your message:
  • A donation of €40 or more will entitle your donor to a tax reduction of 45% of their donation.
  • The urgency: "donate me now because it takes less than 2 minutes! (than it’s gone from your to-do list)"

Daring to go public on social media

If you post your page on social media, don’t hesitate to specifically mention how much funds you still want to raise to achieve your goal. People love challenges!

DIY hack

If you are really too embarrassed to ask for donations, take the indirect creative road.

A couple of examples:

• When you organise a dinner: tell your friends to donate on your page instead of bringing a bottle of wine.
• If you are a great cook (or not, but keep that to yourself), bake cakes and sell them to your neighbours or school parents, etc.
• Make your friends’ life easier by proposing to get you a birthday gift you truly long for: a donation on your page.
• Sell DIY props (bracelets, candles...) to your neighbours’ neighbours.
• Organise a garage or a dressing sale to finance your page.
• Offer your services to wash a car or mow the lawn for someone you know.

Ha and do involve your kids in this endeavour: who on earth would ever refuse such an important plea from your little angel?

You can do this, we believe in you!

What we finance

What we finance thanks to you

In 2020, we started allocating 100% of the funds raised by our participants to research projects selected in the framework of the FIGHT KIDS CANCER call for European projects.

FIGHT KIDS CANCER is a joint initiative by KickCancer, Imagine for Margo (France), the Fondatioun Kriibskrank Kanner (Luxembourg), the CRIS Cancer Foundation (Spain) and KiKa (the Netherlands). Our aim is to accelerate the most innovative treatments thanks to European financing and collaboration of research on paediatric cancers.

Over 5 years, from 2020 to 2024, FIGHT KIDS CANCER led to the funding of 33 research projects and 1 Innovation Award for a total amount of almost 30 million euros, out of which 5 million euros are funded by KickCancer.

In 2025, our five organisations are committed to invest 12 million euros. KickCancer plans to contribute 2,5 million euros.

Participate in RUN TO KICK 2026 by running, walking or donating to one of your friends who participates or by sponsoring us and shooting kids’ cancer forever away!

Donation & Tax Reduction

If you want to support a runner, look for their name on the top of our page with our search engine. Once on their page, click on “I donate”. If you don’t find them, ask to send you the link to their page.

You can also decide to support a whole team or a tribe at once. In that case, your donation will automatically be equally split between the team or tribe members who are registered at the time of your donation.

Your name, first name and email address will be communicated to the runner, the team captain or the creator of the tribe, depending on the type of page you have supported.

Your first name will appear on the page benefitting from your donation. If you do not agree, click on “Make my donation anonymous”.

Thanks to our generous partners, 100% of the donations are used to finance research projects which aim at finding innovative treatments, improving existing ones and kicking children’s cancer to send it far, far away forever and may it never come back!

We have chosen reliable and experienced partners (Raise&Shine and Stripe) for your donations and the registration of your personal information. Your data is safe and handled in confidence.

For every donation of €40 or more over the course of a whole tax year (2026), every Belgium based donor will receive a tax certificate that will entitle him or her to a tax reduction equal to 30% of the donated amount. Make sure your prospect donors know about this!

Every donor will receive an electronic tax certificate at the email address provided at the time of donation, during the first quarter of 2027. This certificate will be issued by the King Baudouin Foundation, which manages your donations through the KickCancer Fund (paired with the KickCancer Foundation).

Create a team

I’m raising an army of Kickers

Good! This allows you to join forces and raise as much as possible to fund the fight against children’s cancer. Remember, every runner on the team must raise a minimum of 200 euros (100 euros for minors and students under 25) in order to be allowed to participate in RUN TO KICK. 

I register and create my own team immediately

1. Click on the "I REGISTER" button
2. If you would like to register children or other persons on your account proceed with the registration procedure as many times as the number of participants you want to register.
3. Pay all registrations at the same time.
4. When all registrations are completed, proceed by clicking on the "I CREATE A TEAM" button.
5. Pick a nice picture and write a short text introducing your team.
6. You will soon receive an e-mail confirming the completion of your registration and the creation of your team.
7. You can start inviting your friends to join your team and of course, start fundraising like a champ!

I am already registered and want to create a team later

Log in to your account and choose one of these options

1. Go to the page "All teams" and click on the “I create a team” button.
2. Go to your personal space: My pages > RUN TO KICK 2026 > My Teams and click on “I create a team”.

Join a team

I want to join an existing team of Kickers

I want to join a team

Start by going to the “All teams” page and search for their team’s name in our search engine on top of your screen and click on “I join this team”. Then, fill in the registration form. Or ask the team captain to send you a link to directly register with their team.

I am already registered and want to join a team

Log in to your account first (top right of the screen). Then, look for your team’s name with our search engine on the top of the screen and click on “I join this team”.

Create or join a tribe

It is possible to raise funds in a small group while being part of a team (or not!!!), thanks to tribes. Typically, this option is super useful when several people want to ask donations from the same individuals – you can send one email, and get one payment from the donor, but it will be a donation for everyone! (For example, parents and their children, colleagues from the same department, a group of friends…).

You can be part of multiple tribes, there are no limits!

Here’s how it works:

1. Create your tribe

It’s simple! When you're on your personal page, you’ll see the "New tribe +" button just below your name. Click on it and choose a name for your tribe (for example TheBrusselsFrenchFried). Confirm by clicking "I create my tribe." Once your tribe is created, share the URL link with your friends, family, colleagues… and start raising funds together!

2. Join an existing tribe

If you want to join a tribe created by your friends, family, or colleagues, it's just as easy! After clicking on "New tribe +", check the second part of the screen “…or join an existing one:.. By clicking on "More tribes," you will see all the tribes listed alphabetically. Click on the tribe you want to join, then click on “I join this tribe.”

A donation on the tribe’s page is automatically divided equally among all the tribe members.