THANET Roadrunners have announced that this year’s Miles & Barr 5k charity fun run will start at The Oval in Cliftonville at 10.30am on Sunday, May, 29.

The fun run has, in just two years, grown to be Thanet’s largest mass participation sporting event.

More than 600 people took part last year, raising £10,000 for the Pilgrim’s Hospice in Margate, the largest single donation the Hospice had ever received.

Phil Pittock, of Thanet Roadrunners, said: “We have had to alter the course from the one that we have used so successfully for the past two years, because Southern Water are digging part of it up to make way for their new sewage treatment works at Foreness.

“We have established Palm Bay as the venue and we have worked very hard to find a new course that would be scenic, traffic free and as family-friendly as the old course.”

Miles & Barr will again underwrite the costs and will donate £10 from each property instruction during April and May.

Stuart Barr, director of Miles & Barr, said: “We are pleased to be able to support a worthy cause with such a great event.

“KM-fm’s Big Bus will be there again, and we are grateful for the support of Johnny Lewis and Tim Stewart from KM-fm. We hope to achieve 1000 runners this year”

Last year’s race was won by 19-year-old Daniel Burton, from Ramsgate, in 16 min 13 sec. Jenny van Deelen from Canterbury won the ladies’ race in 18:47.

An entry form can be downloaded from Miles & Barr’s website www.milesandbarr.co.uk, from Thanet Roadrunners’ website www.thanetroadrunners.org.uk and runners could also enter online at www.runnersworld.co.uk

Forms are available from Miles & Barr branches across East Kent, and from Thanet District Council’s offices in Margate and Ramsgate.