Those looking to add another 5-kilometre charity run/walk to their 2023 schedule, can now mark 16 April on their calendar, when the first-ever in-person Cayman edition of the RBC Race for the Kids will be held.
RBC Royal Bank announced at a briefing on 2 March that they’d be hosting a run/walk to raise funds for the Alex Panton Foundation. Previously, COVID forced a virtual version of the event.
“Since COVID we found out there’s a lot of young people struggling with mental health,” Gemma Mclaughlin, RBC’s assistant marketing manager told the Compass. “That’s why we chose youth mental health because it really needs attention and the Alex Panton Foundation is obviously very focused on that.”
The RBC Race for the Kids is a charitable global running event in which more than 360,000 people have participated over the years, raising over $80 million to benefit children’s and youth-focused causes.
Mclaughlin said she would have liked it if Cayman had begun the in-person 5K sooner, but recent circumstances put a hold on the Cayman series.
“The RBC Race for the Kids has been around for many, many years and it is done in every market in which we operate,” she said. “It was extended to Cayman about two years ago, right in the middle of COVID.
“So, we had to do a virtual race… we just left it up to people to do whatever they wanted to do – a 2K, maybe just a quick jog on the treadmill. But fast forward to this year, we have decided to do the first in-person race,” Mclaughlin said.
The event will take place on Sunday, 16 April, at 6:30am, with runners lining up at RBC Camana Bay.
Also at the briefing was Rhonda Kelly, board member of the Alex Panton Foundation, who thanked RBC for assisting their charity, noting that it “will help so many of our children and young people”.
She added, “I would like to encourage members of the public to come out and support Race for the Kids and the foundation.”
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