Run for charity

By participating in the Göteborgsvarvet, you're already contributing to children's and youth sports. Do you want to make an even greater difference? Run for charity.

Since 2011, Göteborgsvarvet through its runners has raised over 14 million SEK for charity. Thank you for being part of and contributing!

Run for charity 2025

A charity spot gives you start wave Charity, between wave 11 and 12 (or earlier with your own seeding result). All charity runners starting in wave Charity will receive a specific bib, that indicates that you're running for charity.

The cost for a charity spot is the regular registration fee for Göteborgsvarvet plus 400 SEK, which will go directly to the selected organization.

Read more about our charity organizations below, along with instructions on how to 'Run for Charity'.

Charity partnerSuicide Zero

Suicide Zero works to prevent suicide by influencing politicians, educating people, and funding essential research on suicide.

Every year, approximately 1,500 suicides occur in Sweden. Among young people aged 15-24, suicide is the leading cause of death. That’s why Suicide Zero focuses on equipping parents, school staff, and sports coaches with the tools and knowledge to have life-saving conversations with the children and young people around them.

Run Göteborgsvarvet with us, and show that every suicide is one too many!

Read more about Suicide Zero

Charity partnerInsamlingsstiftelsen för Drottning Silvias barnsjukhus

Insamlingsstiftelsen för Drottning Silvias barnsjukhus works to bring joy to the children and families facing daily challenges at Sweden’s largest children’s hospital

When children and young people are affected by illness, environments, experiences, and activities that encourage play and laughter are essential, providing comfort and hope. That’s why the foundation raises funds for initiatives that complement the hospital’s regular care—things that are needed every day, all year round, but cannot be financed through public funds.

Together, we nurture the health of the sick child.

Read more about Insamlingsstiftelsen för Drottning Silvias barnsjukhus

Charity partnerUng Cancer

Every day, someone receives life-changing news. Ung Cancer is there from the very first moment to ensure that all young adults aged 16 to 30 living with or affected by cancer receive the support and care they deserve.

Ung Cancer supports its members by providing psychosocial assistance and acting as a bridge in the in-between space that often arises between life in the hospital and life outside. We create meeting places and opportunities for connection during a time when it’s easy to feel like the loneliest person in the world. We also provide financial aid to those struggling to make ends meet due to cancer.

We exist for a world where no young adult living with or affected by cancer has to carry the burden alone.

Read more about Ung Cancer

Charity partnerGöteborgs Stadsmission

Run 21 km to ensure that all children have the right to the joy of movement.

According to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, all children have the right to meaningful leisure time, but reality tells a different story. Run in support of Göteborgs Stadsmission and help improve health and activity opportunities for children living in financial hardship. You can make sure more children experience the joy of physical activity.

Göteborgs Stadsmission works for a more humane society. Every day, we meet children and young people in vulnerable situations, offering emergency help and long-term support. With the support of generous runners, we can provide fantastic summer camps, meaningful leisure activities, essential counseling, and much more.

Thank you for your contribution! Together, we are making a difference for children and young people.

Read more about Göteborgs Stadsmission

Charity partnerHjärnfonden

Hjärnfonden works for a society where all brains reach their full potential, free from disease. It is by contributing to research that we can change the lives of even more people.

Today, around 100,000 live with Alzheimer's, an incurable disease where research is crucial to finding answers. And that's just one of the brain's many diagnoses. More than one in four Swedes suffer from depression at some point, someone has a stroke every 20 minutes, 1.5 million suffer from migraines and every year around 75,000 are absent from work due to stress-related mental illness. And everyone gets hit at some point. If it's not us, it's someone in the family. Or a friend. Therefore, your contribution to brain research is needed. So that more people can live more. And longer.

Read more about Hjärnfonden

Charity partnerÅgrenska

Ågrenska is a center for children and adults with rare health conditions, diagnoses, and other disabilities, including their families. Specialists and professionals are also trained here.

At the same time, we share information and exchange knowledge with the entire world.

Our work serves as an important complement to healthcare and other societal services.

The proximity to the sea and nature provides a sanctuary and a much-appreciated break from everyday life for our visitors.

All of this is located on an island south of Gothenburg.

Do a good deed and run for a rare cause—run for Ågrenska at Göteborgsvarvet 2025.

Read more about Ågrenska

Instructions

You can choose Run for Charity as an option when registering, or upgrade to Run for charity if you are already registered for the race.

The last day to upgrade to charity is April 30th (with reservation for earlier sell-out).

  • New registration Run for charity

    Follow the steps below to sign up for the Göteborgsvarvet and simultaneously book "Run for Charity":

    1. Sign up for the Göteborgsvarvet and fill in your details.
    2. Click on "next step" and there you will have the option "Run for charity".
    3. Choose which organization you want to run for, 400 SEK will go directly to the selected organization.
    4. Complete your registration and make the payment.
    5. Done. Your confirmation for "Run for charity" will be sent to your specified email.

    Registration 2025

  • Already registered Upgrade to Run for charity

    Follow the steps below to upgrade your race entry to "Run for charity".

    1. Go to your email and open the email you received from us confirming your registration.
    2. Click on the red button "My personal dashboard".
    3. Once you are on your personal dashboard, click on the blue button in the top right corner "Edit registration".
    4. Scroll down and accept our terms and conditions, then click on "next step".
    5. Now you have the option to select "Yes" or "No" to "Run for charity", click on "Yes".
    6. Choose which organization you want to run for, 400 SEK will go directly to the selected organization.
    7. Complete the remaining steps in your change and make the payment.
    8. Done. Your confirmation for "Run for charity" will be sent to your specified email.
    9. You can now see on your dashboard that you have the option to "Run for charity".
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