Best Foot Forward 2026

WCR ususally broadcast live from this event.

Best Foot Forward is a community initiative, devised and organised by the Rotary Club of the City of Wolverhampton, which is staged annually on last Saturday in June at WV Active, Aldersley, in order to raise funds for charities.

The event is supported by some thirty community-minded corporate patrons who each contribute to the creation of a fund. This fund will ensure that each charity will receive a minimum of £3,000, but achievement of a target number of laps by those taking part will boost the charity pay-out to a maximum of £5,000 for each charity.

Those taking part can spend as long or as little as they choose at the event and return as often as they choose in the course of the day, with a personal chip keeping tally of how many laps have been covered. When finishing for the day a certificate is available, recording the number of laps covered.

This event, created in Wolverhampton, is virtually unique in the UK and provides the opportunity to take exercise at your own pace and at your chosen time, while at the same time knowing that the calories you are burning off are going to improve the lives of others.

The essential difference between Best Foot Forward and a typical sponsored run is that, for the latter, entrants are required to sign up personal sponsors and then collect and pay over the sponsorship monies