About 60 people, most of them staff and students at Newcastle University, participated in Jubilee Debt Campaign’s team in the Great North Run, the biggest half-marathon in the world, on Sunday.
![Team members do an ‘Usain Bolt’ prior to the Run](https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_webp,q_glossy,ret_img,w_640,h_301/https://debtjustice.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Group-Usain.jpg)
The weather was warm and sunny – perfect for the spectators, but not so good for runners wanting to improve on their times!
![The ‘Professorial Team’ (l-r): Prof Bernard Golding; Dr Phil Ansell, Dean of Sport; Prof Emma Stevenson; Prof David Leat (Team Captain); Prof Steve Vincent; Prof Phil Taylor;](https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_webp,q_glossy,ret_img,w_640,h_456/https://debtjustice.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Group-Profs.jpg)
Two team members came up from London to take part – namely, Charlie Tunmore, until recently a member of Jubilee staff, and Alysa Remtulla, a staff member at STOP AIDS. Both spoke on behalf of the campaigns on the previous evening, at a high-profile meeting to celebrate the Run attended by several community leaders and about 60 supporters of North East CALL TO ACTION, a regional member of the campaign.
![Charlie and Alysa at the finish.](https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_webp,q_glossy,ret_img,w_640,h_480/https://debtjustice.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/P1010018.jpg)
The team raises sponsorship funds for Jubilee’s work and the wider global poverty and climate change campaigns and, excluding the present year, has raised over £180,000 in total.
Congratulations to all the runners and a big thank you to everyone who sponsored them!
![Raquel and Khristianne, students in the Medical Faculty, at the Finish.](https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_webp,q_glossy,ret_img,w_640,h_521/https://debtjustice.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/P1010023.jpg)