Best Foot Forward

Best Foot Forward is a community initiative, devised to raise funds for charities, and is organised by the Rotary Club of the City of Wolverhampton.

Staged annually at WV Active, Aldersley Road, Wolverhampton WV6 9NW, this year’s event takes place on Saturday 28th June 2025.

The event is supported by some forty community-minded corporate Patrons who each contribute to the creation of a fund which will be released by those taking part. During the course of the event, which runs from 8am to 8pm, every lap of the stadium will release £1 for the benefit of the event charities from the fund created by the PATRONS

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.

For this event, there is no obligation to seek personal sponsorship –

all that the entrants need to do is to simply take part –

the charity funding comes from elsewhere.