Useful information

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

RUN TO KICK is an opportunity for families affected by children’s cancer to get together and gather around them their friends and colleagues who did not know how to help them during this storm.

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

Come and experience this festive, positive, light and moving moment that pays tribute to those who are fighting or have fought against cancer. It’s a sheer dose of hope and solidarity.

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 28 September 2025 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.

Register for the race

Do you run, jog, walk, roll or crawl... but above all, feel like shooting kids’ cancer far way? Then join us!

Whether you want to participate alone or in a team, it all starts with creating your own individual fundraising page.

I’m becoming a Kicker

Click on the "I REGISTER" button and fill in your personal information, choose your track and select your t-shirt size.
Create your personal fundraising page, add a nice picture and a personal introduction text. The more you customise your page, the more your friends will want to support your effort!
Choose a password to manage and edit your page later.
Finalise your own registration and pay the €12 fee. Once your fundraising page is paid for, it will be published and you will soon receive an email confirming the completion of your registration.
Off you go! You can start fundraising like a champ now! Want some inspiration? We explain everything here!

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

Click on the button "I REGISTER"
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.
Pay all registrations at the same time.
When all registrations are completed, proceed by clicking on the "I CREATE A TEAM" button.
Pick a nice picture and write a short text introducing your team.
You will soon receive an e-mail confirming the completion of your registration and the creation of your team.
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

Go to the page "All teams" and click on the “I create a team” button.
Go to your personal space: My pages > RUN TO KICK 2025 > 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”.

Participate with my company

I want to kick cancer with my colleagues

Great idea! If your company is eager to support your team by sponsoring the registration costs and/or the team’s fundraising effort, please contact us here and we shall be happy to create your team page.

We shall provide you with a secret registration link that should be shared only within the company. This link will enable every prospective runner to benefit from the advantages agreed with your company.

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 Kriib- skrank 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.

FIGHT KIDS CANCER is developed in collaboration with the European Science Foundation and a committee of international independent experts who help us select the best research projects.

In Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Spain, and the Netherlands as well as in other European countries in the future, these projects are financed thanks to the organization of our charity family races. When more runners participate or their motivation to fundraise increases, the amount we can invest in research follows suit.

Participate in RUN TO KICK 2025 by running, walking or donating to one of your friends that participate or by sponsoring us and shooting kids’ cancer forever away!

RUN TO KICK 2024

In September 2023, we launched our fifth FIGHT KIDS CANCER call for research projects exclusively dedicated to research on paediatric brain tumours, because they are among the deadliest types of paediatric cancer, and we want to accelerate research in this disease area. We aim for a total amount of €10,7 million to finance the 8 selected research projects (2 clinical trials, 6 translational projects). KickCancer wants to fund €1,5 million of this amount thanks to RUN TO KICK 2024.

Through these projects, we hope to foster improvements in the knowledge and treatment of the following diseases: Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG) (clinical trial), Low-grade glioma (clinical trail), Diffuse midline glioma (translational project), Medulloblastoma (2 translational projects), Ependymoma (translational project) and “All brain tumours” (2 translational projects).

RUN TO KICK 2023

In September 2023, we reached a new record thanks to more than 2.400 runners who raised together the fantastic amount of 1 271 003 euros!

Thanks to them, we were able to finance 9 new FIGHT KIDS CANCER projects. Through these projects, we hope to foster improvements in the knowledge and treatment of the following diseases: All brain tumours (clinical trial), Hodgkin Lymphoma (translational), medulloblastomas (translational), Diffuse Intrisic Pontine Gliomas (DIPG) (2 translational projects), T-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia (translational), high-risk glioma (translational), radiotherapy side-effects (translational) and Ewing Sarcoma (translational).

RUN TO KICK 2022

1.652 runners participated in the fith edition of RUN TO KICK and fundraised together €725 000. They have done massive fundraising together, totalling: 1 042 013 euros!

Thanks to them, we were able to finance 7 FIGHT KIDS CANCER projects. Through these projects, we want to make significant progress in the knowledge and treatment of the following diseases: neuroblastoma (one clinical trial and two translational projects), leukaemia and lymphoma (one clinical trial), leukaemia (two translational projects: one for acute lymphoblastic leukaemia and one for acute myeloid leukaemia), and one clinical trial for all tumors.

RUN TO KICK 2021

1 099 runners participated in this hybrid edition and fundraised together €728 111.

Thanks to them, we were able to finance 5 FIGHT KIDS CANCER projects. Through these projects, we hope to make significant progress in the knowledge and treatment of the following diseases: B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma (clinical trial), Ewing’s sarcoma (clinical trial), Medulloblastoma (translational project), Neuroblastoma (2 translational projects n°1 & n°2)

RUN TO KICK 2020

770 runners participated in an exceptional connected edition and fundraised together €610 000. Thanks to them, we were able to finance the first 6 FIGHT KIDS CANCER projects for €800 000. Thanks to those projects, we hope to enable major progress in the understanding and treatments of the following diseases: high-grade gliomas (one clinical trial and one translational project), acute myeloïd leukaemias, rhabdoid tumours, osteosarcomas and neuroblastomas.

RUN TO KICK 2019

1350 runners participated in the second edition and fundraised together €630 000. Thanks to them, we were able to renew our structural support to the working costs of the BSPHO and finance, together with Fondatioun Kriibskrank Kanner (Luxemburg) and Imagine for Margo (France) the E-SMART project, a clinical trial with an innovative design, which aims at developing targeted therapies for children with a refractory or relapsing disease.

RUN TO KICK 2018

680 runners participated in this first edition and fundraised together €326 000. Thanks to them, we were able to finance a first year of structural support to the working costs of the BSPHO. The aim of this financing is to enable the Belgian centres to coordinate their research activities in order to make them more effective and improve the care provided to Belgian patients.

Fundraising

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

You can share 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 gathered the best advice from the best world experts on fundraising on this page to inspire you on how to fundraise super effectively!

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

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

How to fundraise like a champ?

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 to fundraise is not as difficult as it seems. For those of you who are afraid of asking their friends and family to donate, we have gathered the best advice from the world experts on fundraising. After such an inspiring read, you will blow up your personal meter for sure!

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. Not because you want to buy a jacuzzi.

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

Rule #3: you have to follow the RULES

A nice request follows a very strict protocol 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! (and 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 goals. People love challenges!

DIY hack

If you are REALLY too embarrassed to ask for donations, take the long (indirect) 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!

Donation and Tax Reduction

If you want to support a runner, look for his or her name on the top of our page with our search engine. Then, click on “I donate”. If you don’t find him or her, ask to send you the link to his or her 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 will have supported.

Your first name will be mentioned 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 are safe and handled in confidence.

For every donation of €40 or more over the course of a whole tax year (2025), you/your donor will receive a tax certificate that will entitle him or her to a tax reduction equal to 45% of the donated amount. Make sure your prospect donors know about this!

You/they will receive during the first trimester of 2026 a tax certificate issued by the King Baudouin Foundation. They manage your donations through the KickCancer Fund (paired with the KickCancer Foundation).

Accessibility & Parkings

The RUN TO KICK village is easily accessible. The single entrance to the village is located at the Kiosk of the Bois de la Cambre (Carrefour des Attelages, 1 - 1000 Brussels), via the Avenue de Diane. Although we have provided parking spaces, we won't have enough to accommodate 3,200 cars ;-) To get the day off to a good start 🧘we strongly advise you to come by public transport, bike, scooter or by foot ;-)

A. Come by bike!

The park is accessible to cyclists. Parking is available near the entrance of the village to secure your bikes while you fully enjoy RUN TO KICK. If you don't own a bike, you can rent a Villo! and park at stations 244, 71, or 80. More information and rates: www.villo.be

Click on this map to see where the bike parking is located.

KickCancer cannot be held responsible in the event of loss, theft or damages caused.

B. Take public transport!

STIB Tram 🚋

• Line 7 - Lonchamp stop (+ 7 min walk)

• Line 8 - Legrand stop (+ 12 min walk)

• Line 93 - Legand stop (+12 min walk)

STIB Bus 🚌

• Line 38 –Hôpital Sainte-Elisabeth stop (+11 min walk)

• Line 41 - Hôpital Sainte-Elisabeth stop (+11 min walk)

TEC 🚌

• Lines 365A and W - Av. W. Churchill stop (+7 min walk)

De Lijn 🚌

• Line 136 - Av. W. Churchill stop (+7 min walk)

C. No other option than the car?

Car pooling is the way to go! 👍 Drop off your friends, family or colleagues at the Kiss & Ride 💋🚗 which will be set up on site, as close as possible to the entrance of the RUN TO KICK village.

To avoid any unpleasant surprises, print the RUN TO KICK Car Pass here (and place it visibly on your windshield), to park your car in the spaces provided in the parking lots 1/2/3/4 (no-parking signs will be displayed, reserved for our race).

KickCancer cannot be held responsible in the event of loss, theft or damages caused.

Practical info

If you are a runner, don't forget...

At the entrance of the RUN TO KICK village, we will ask you to:

Show your identity card
Show the QR code that confirms your final registration (you will receive it by email and SMS)
If you are between 18 and 25 years old and have collected less than 200 euros, you will have to show your student card.
If you have not collected the required minimum, you can easily pay the missing amount at the ‘Regularisation’ stand at the Bois de la Cambre kiosk in the village.

As a reminder, minors must be accompanied by a responsible adult throughout the event.

We recommend that you bring a large bag to easily store your belongings at the bags deposit tent.

The best goodie for the best runners

We will reward each runner with an awesome goodie after the race. Make sure to head over to the 'T-shirts & dossards' tent when you leave the village and swap your bib for a shiny fluorescent jacket from WOWOW. ✨

Shoot for the tent

All the teams that reach €10 000 receive their own private castle 🏰 (ok, a tent 🎪) in the RUN TO KICK village.

Why reach for the tent? 🤓

Skip the Lines ⏳: No more waiting for your t-shirt or race number (bib)—you can skip the ‘T-shirts & Dossards’ tent 😎 and go straight to your team tent to gather your T-shirt and bib, carefully prepared for you! ;-)
Team HQ 🫡: It’s the perfect spot to gather your team and prepare for the run together.
Stand Out and Shine: Your tent gives your team visibility and show everyone just how much you’ve achieved!
Community: Your tent places you right in the heart of the RUN TO KICK village, where you can mingle with other awesome teams

On-site facilities

You can safely leave your belongings at the bags deposit tent.

Toilets with disabled access will be available.

Please note that there are no changing rooms or showers on site.

And what will we eat?

Refreshment

We will have two refreshment stations for runners and walkers with water, oranges and biscuits to give you energy!

The refreshment stations will be located at the 5th Km and at the finish.

Food and drinks

There will be plenty of good food and drink in the RUN TO KICK village!

Is your mouth watering?

Our kind partners will make sure that hungry runners are provided with:

The delicious Tartes de Françoise (sweet and savoury versions),
Teroir's gourmet hot dogs
A refreshing Tero salad (mozzarella, roasted vegetables, pesto)
El Camion foodtruck and the juicy burgers are back (veggie option available)!
think tomato and two pasta recipes made with their world-famous tomato sauce (veggie or not)
The sweet treats from Maison Dandoy (waffles and crêpes)

There will also be a bar with, among other things, delicious drinks of Drink a Flower, Spa, Smile Kombucha, frOui, Brussels Beer Project, and champaign.

Payment throughout the village will be made exclusively by card.

We would like to thank you in advance for keeping the RUN TO KICK village clean by sorting your rubbish in the specially provided bins.

Program 🤡🍭🎳 and Kiss & RUN 👶🏻

A. Program

We've put together a great program for the whole day!

The RUN TO KICK village will open at 9 am. The start of the race is at 11 am sharp!

We advise you to arrive one hour early to have enough time to pick up your t-shirt and race number and to enjoy the collective warm-up session.

09:00 — Welcome! Opening of the RUN TO KICK village

10:30 — Collective warm-up

11:00 — DEPARTURE!

12:30 — Official award ceremony

13:30 — NRJ Kick Concert with Berre, Helena, SOLA, Mustii and Jérémy Frérot 🤩

14:30 — Zumba

16:00 — See you soon! Closing of the village

B. Activities

Stay with us after the race!

There will be plenty to enjoy in the RUN TO KICK village and for all ages.

Activities:

Wooden games to play with the whole family, face painting, bouncy castle... impossible to get bored!
And if you can’t get enough of sports, Decathlon is planning plenty of activities for you.
An incredible make-up stand 💄
An exclusive concert of NRJ 🎶

A warm atmosphere:

The Lab and le Rythme des Fourmis will definitely make you want to dance!
The cheerful Doctors Zinzin are back, you can't miss them, that’s for sure!
The 501st FanWars Legion will parade their Stormtroopers on the courses and in the village.

C."Kiss & Run" and "Kids Corner"

Are your children coming with you? That's amazing! Please read the information below carefully to avoid any confusion 🤓

If they are running with you:

If your child is under 4, he or she can accompany you during the race without having to register/nor to raise money.
If your child is aged 4 or over, they can participate in the race. They will have to register & raise 100 euros.

If you prefer a kids-free run: register them for the “Kiss & Run”:

Our supervised “Kiss & Run” welcomes children (aged 3 to 8 years) during the race (10.00 to 12.30) so that you can enjoy the race to the fullest.

At the end of the race (max 12.30), we would like to insist on the fact there will be no supervision in the “Kiss & Run” anymore... but your kids are more than welcome to enjoy the structure and games available in the “Kids Corner”.

Would you like to register your children at the Kiss & Run?

The Rules

The registrations for the “Kiss & Run” are open since the 16th of September 2024
Registration link for the "Kiss & Run"
There is a maximum capacity of 100 kids, we will handle the registrations as “first come, first served”.
Once you filled in the form, you will receive an answer (positive or negative) within 48 hours after the registration of your kid(s) (depending on the maximum capacity). Don’t forget to check your spam.
If your child's registration has been confirmed, be sure to bring your confirmation mail to RUN TO KICK.

Kids Corner

No supervision / no registration required: your chicks are your responsibility 🐣

From 10 a.m. the “Kids Corner” is the ultimate playground for kids of all ages to burn off that extra energy ⚡️! From bouncing on trampolines to testing your skills in archery 🏹, there's something for everyone.

Face painting

Last but not least, the make-up artists are back this year! 🎨✨ They will be ready to transform your little ones into real works of art. Starting at 9 a.m., you can sign up for a preferred time at the « KIDS MAKE-UP » tent next to the Kids Corner 🌈👩‍🎨🧑‍🎨

Become a volunteer at RUN TO KICK

I want to volunteer at RUN TO KICK!

Are you ready to be part of an inspiring community of kickers? We are still looking for energetic, enthusiastic and motivated people to volunteer at RUN TO KICK on 28 September!

What to expect?

First and foremost, a day to remember! Whether you help us set up the RUN TO KICK village, encourage participants on the course or help at the various stands, your help is crucial. Moreover, you will get the chance to experience the event up close and witness the passion and determination of our runners and supporters.

Ready to become a kicker? Fill in our volunteer form here and we will contact you in September (at the latest) to tell you your mission on D-Day!

THANK YOU for your valuable help!

Map of the village & parcours

Discover the map of the village here.

Curious about the running trails? Explore them here!

To make the race enjoyable for everyone, the start will be organised in 3 waves, each spread across 3 different boxes: please proceed to the box of your choice as indicated on this map.

BOX 1 = Runners 5 km / 10 km (start at 11:00)

BOX 2 = Runners 2 km (start at 11:05)

BOX 3 = Walkers 2 km / 5 km (start at 11:10)

Don't hesitate to contact us

info@kickcancer.org