Fettes College Fun Run Raises Funds, Points Toward Expanded Duke of Edinburgh Support
The annual charity fun run organised by fettes college will dedicate all money raised to FetLor Youth Club, which currently has 18 participants enrolled on its Duke of Edinburgh award. The event, scheduled for Sunday 22 March (ET), signals a direction toward sustaining free youth activities and expanding access to the award for local schoolchildren.
Fettes College event specifics for Sunday 22 March
Fettes College will stage a mixed-distance event on Sunday 22 March (ET) that invites participants to run 5K, 10K or a half marathon distance, and encourages cycling, rowing, walking or treadmill participation too. The school expects hundreds of people to take part across the campus, around the city and from further afield, with alumni also undertaking runs from wherever they are in the world.
FetLor Youth Club, Dr Richie Adams and Helen Harrison as visible drivers
FetLor Youth Club, founded in 1924 by former pupils from Fettes College and Loretto School, regularly welcomes over 350 young people throughout the week to free sport and creative activity. Dr Richie Adams, Chief Executive of FetLor Youth Club, and Helen Harrison, Head of Fettes College, both frame the run as a community effort: FetLor will use funds to support the Duke of Edinburgh award while Fettes College describes the event as an opportunity to “Give Back” to local young people.
Fettes College fundraising trajectory and conditional scenarios
Fettes College hopes to raise around £10, 000 from the run, a target that ties directly to FetLor’s current programme capacity of 18 Duke of Edinburgh participants. If the event reaches or exceeds that financial target, FetLor will be able to fund additional places on the award and sustain volunteering pathways that carry SQA awarded points, expanding the life-changing experience Dr Richie Adams highlights.
Should participation fall short of the school’s aim, FetLor would still retain its core services for the more than 350 young people who use the club weekly, but the context does not resolve whether the Duke of Edinburgh cohort would expand beyond the current 18 participants. That specific funding outcome remains unresolved until the final fundraising total is confirmed.
For now, the run’s inclusivity—allowing cycling, rowing, walking and treadmill entries—creates a clear route to broaden donor and participant pools, while the involvement of alumni running from other locations signals a geographically dispersed fundraising base.
Based on context data:
- Event date: Sunday 22 March (ET)
- Distances offered: 5K, 10K, half marathon
- FetLor weekly reach: over 350 young people
- Duke of Edinburgh enrolment at FetLor: 18 participants
- Fettes College fundraising target: around £10, 000
Next confirmed milestone in the context is the run itself on Sunday 22 March (ET); that event will deliver the clearest signal about whether Fettes College’s fundraising meets its around £10, 000 target and how many additional Duke of Edinburgh places FetLor can fund. What the context does not yet resolve is the final donation total and the precise number of new award places the money will support. Expect a post-event report of funds raised to determine which of the two scenarios materialises and how deeply the run changes access to the Duke of Edinburgh award for local children.
