Run Army, an annual, nationwide fitness event promoting health, resilience, and well-being through running programs, is returning on to Brisbane and Townsville.
Run Army raises much needed funds for charities, such as Queensland Police Legacy (QPL).
Our Queensland Police Service officers are dedicated to keeping our community safe and ensuring they feel safe.
But there are times when our extended policing family also needs support.
Since it was founded in 1971, the QPL Scheme has been providing financial and social assistance and support to the families of serving or retired Queensland Police Officers that have dependent children in fulltime education or below school age where that family has suffered the death or terminal illness of either parent.
This is irrespective of whether the death occurred on or off duty and applies whatever the cause.
For over five decades, they have been a beacon of hope, providing assistance to hundreds of families and children when it has been needed the most.
Through financial educational support, QPL's aim is to ensure that dependent children of those families receive the education their parents originally intended for them, that they deserve and that they might have been deprived of due to circumstance.
Last year Run Army raised funds for QPL through the support of our community and officers who signed up to the event.
Brisbane Region Acting Assistant Commissioner, Rhys Wildman, is one of the officers signing up to the upcoming run to continue to raise much needed funds for QPL.
"The Queensland Police Service is incredibly grateful for the vital work done by Queensland Police Legacy, and our organisation is thrilled to join forces with Run Army to raise awareness for its work," Acting Assistant Commissioner Wildman said.
"I look forward to running alongside my colleagues, other front line service workers and the community during the event to raise vital funds for these worthy causes."
You can support QPL by signing up or donating to Run Army 2025 from anywhere in the world through the virtual event or run alongside our officers and other frontline service workers in Brisbane on March 30 or Townsville on April 6.
