team cassie + friends Vancouver
Team Cassie + Friends is back in 2024 for our 17th year in the Vancouver Half Marathon, 5k and Kids Run! We invite all BC families to join us in the Charity Challenge in-person run/walk on Sunday, June 23rd.
We’ve been running to raise awareness of juvenile arthritis, expand family support programs offered and fund urgently needed research for 16 years, and are proud to say that each year, we have won the award for Charity with the Highest Fundraising – we raised $206,875 last year because of your participation, motivation, and hard work! Let’s make this year our best yet! We hope you help us celebrate and raise even more awareness. Just choose your distance, create your team, personalize your fundraising page and start your training! It’s time to step up for kids!
Not up for in-person running? Run with us virtually! The virtual run means you can participate anywhere and anytime. Run once, twice, or as many as you’d like, or choose to exercise your way (bike, swim, hike, etc).
Our goal is to make your participation as easy as possible! If you are part of a company, team, or group that would like to get involved, or if you have any questions at all about Team Cassie + Friends, please contact at jaime@cassieandfriends.ca
about this year’s run/walk:
- Register for the 5K, Half Marathon or Kids run. Registration now open!
- Charity prizes for top fundraising are available – let’s not lose our 16 year streak as a top team (and $4000!)
- Stay tuned for fun Team C+F challenges, contests, and ways for everyone to keep motivated and have fun
Since 2007, our team of youth, families, companies and healthcare professionals has grown a network of participants across Canada with run events now in Calgary, Toronto, Ottawa, Hamilton, Halifax, London, and more. We’re running for a pain-free future! To show you support join our team or make a donation!
Follow the steps below:
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- Click here to register for the in-person Half Marathon, 5K, Kids Run or the virtual event.
- Create a Race Roster Account and select your distance.
- Fill in your information and when it comes to ‘Teams’ it will ask ‘Add this registrant to a team?’
- Click ‘Yes, add this registrant to a team created by someone else.’
- Under ‘Team Category,’ select ‘Charity Challenge Fundraising Team’
- Under ‘Select Team,’ choose Cassie + Friends.
- Hit submit and continue to payment.
- Once registration is confirmed: Welcome aboard! Be sure to update your personal page by setting a fundraising goal, adding a photo and share why you are getting involved.
- When you’re happy with your page, share it with others on Facebook to raise awareness, add the link to your Instagram bio and let your friends and family know that you are stepping up for kids.
- Be proud of yourself for making an impact!
Questions? Please email info@cassieandfriends.ca
Kick start your fundraising with #YourFirst5 donation challenge!
Team Cassie + Friends challenges you to get at least 5 donations towards your fundraising page. And when you get 5, you’ll automatically be entered to win fun prizes! Not sure how to get your first 5 donations, start by making a donation to yourself, then ask a friend (or two), a family member, gym buddy and a coworker/classmate!
- Make a donation to yourself – It all starts with you! Be proud of yourself for stepping up for kids and kick things off with a donation to your fundraising page.
- A donation towards research for safer and more effective treatments
- A donation towards support programs so families can feel less alone on their journey.
- A donation towards virtual education, our expert-led information sessions educating families across Canada
- A donation towards connection, so families have a shoulder to lean on.
Try sending this to a friend:
Hi ______,
I am so excited to let you know that this year I am stepping up for kids and families across Canada affected by juvenile arthritis and other rheumatic diseases. Juvenile arthritis is an incurable autoimmune disease in kids that attacks healthy joints and steals childhoods. Kids with JA live with pain, fatigue and fevers, and many require aggressive medications like chemotherapy.
This year I am running with Team Cassie + Friends to fundraise for juvenile arthritis research and family support programs so that kids can have the pain-free futures they deserve. If you are able to make a donation in support of my run/walk, please click the link below.
[Add your fundraising link here]Thank you for supporting me and the 24,000 kids in Canada affected by juvenile arthritis.
[Name]Team C+F Youth Ambassador Program
Are you a youth who lives with or is impacted by Juvenile Arthritis, Lupus, Dermatomyositis, Fever Syndrome or other rheumatic disease? Want to help raise funds and awareness for juvenile arthritis at your school or amongst your sports team? Learn more about hosting a kids fun run at your school and how to earn free kids registration with our Youth Run Ambassador Program.
What’s in it for you?
- Receive one free kids registration to an official Team C+F run/walk when you pledge to raise $50 or more. Official Virtual and In-Person Team Cassie + Friends run/walk events include: Vancouver, Calgary, Halifax, Hamilton, Toronto and Ottawa.
- Receive a Team C+F Fun Run Package including sidewalk chalk and Cassie + Friends coloured ribbons to host your at-school fun run event
- Receive a Team Cassie + Friends Technical Running Shirt
- Fun prizes when you reach fundraising milestones
- Raise $50, receive a Team C+F baseball cap
- Raise $500, a cupcake party for your class or sports team
- The opportunity to apply for this years Youth Leader Award and your chance at a $500 prize.
local champion families
E.J. Bugayong and Family
Local Business
E.J. Bugayong, Realtor at Oakwyn Realty
Jaylene Prime & Family
Local Business
Prime Forklift, Langley, BC
thank you to our Champion 4 Kids Sponsors
