Runforever

02/10/2026

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We are happy to announce that Runforever has been nominated Scottish Recovery Award 2026 finalist for “Hope beyond the Walls” -
https://www.scottishrecoveryawards.co.uk/finalists2026/

Thank you for your support to make this possible
Paolo

We're delighted to congratulate all of this year’s Scottish Recovery Awards finalists across our award categories. The nominees are...

01/10/2026

On Friday 25th September the book has been launched with a dedicated event at HMP Grampian which saw the participation of around 60 people including HMP Grampian staff, different organisations working in recovery ( Runforever, Scottish Recovery Consortium, ADP, Familiesoutside), members and students from RGU. The agenda gave voice to institutions, charities, organisations, political representatives and the Writers in Residence who read their poems and shared their lived experience

Read all here
https://runforever.org.uk/writers-in-residence/

03/11/2025

Would you help us? ...

Hi, my name is Sara Genny, I'm opening this page to help grow… Sara Rizzo parisi needs your support for Runforever through these walls in prisons and communities

18/11/2024

Thank you so much for this article, we work really hard and it's really important sometimes to have the feedback that this is important inside the prison....and outside!!!

Paolo, 55, first started running with inmates at a prison in Milan. It planted a seed which is now blossoming in Peterhead.

03/10/2024

20/09/2024

TRANSFORMING LIVES GRANTS: We are delighted to welcome back Runforever as one of our recipients of grants for projects in 2024!

Last year, Runforever's fantastic rehabilitation process for prisoners and former offenders - providing a run club at HMP & YOI Grampian - was funded by Athletics Trust Scotland. We once again have supported this project.

"The grant will help continue with the running club at HMP & YOI Grampian which started last February 2023," said Runforever chair Mark Hope.

"This works as a bridge between prison and the community welcoming at the same time runners from inside and outside the prison, overcoming risks of stigmatisation.

"In so doing, it enables the formation of a community of support benefiting inmates, ex-offenders, marginalised communities, and individuals with mental health issues by breaking the barriers and walls between them."

11/09/2024

A massive thank you to Athletics Trust Scotland for supporting us with the Transforming Lives Grant!

Kipchoge said “My dream is to make this world a running world”. Runforever shares this dream and takes it to marginalized people in prison and in the community who can highly benefit from what this sport can inspire. A big thank you to ATS for your continuous support and for helping us make this world a running world, which is a healthy world, a peaceful world, a joyful world because running is not just running. Running is dwelling poetically!

06/09/2024

We are a CHARITY now!!!!!
Support us and give people a chance to change......
https://runforever.org.uk/donation/

19/04/2024

Runforever.....with us!!!!

Please help us keeping prisoners running with us, inside the walls and maybe in the future outside the walls!!
Our project is growing step by step, as a real marathon, and it's so wonderful seeing people involved in every different ways, and we need all of you!
Every single help can be a little step further for us and for them!!! Thank you!!!

Runforever is a non-profit organisation founded in March 2023, promoting educational projects (based on marathon running and the Feldenkrais method® – awareness through movement) fostering paths for humanising health care within prison environment and the community towards a future society foster...

05/03/2024

Runforever, who support HMP Grampian's running club, have been recognised by Audrey Nicoll MSP in a motion to the Scottish Parliament, which received cross-party support.

Ms Nicoll highlighted the benefit of the running club to the health and wellbeing of those in our care, through providing the opportunity for regular exercise and relationship building.

She also praised HMP Grampian's recently established Recovery and Wellbeing Strategy group, who work with Runforever and Robert Gordon University to run the group.