The Halloween monsters have returned to Manchester and you can now enjoy spotting them all in a whole new way: with a fun charity run.
In case you’re new to the area or simply have never come across them before, around this time every year central Manchester is taken over by several inflatable Halloween monsters hanging over rooftops and lurking around nearly every corner.
Finding them all is always a neat little game we like to play and you can certainly do so by simply wandering around the city centre, but why walk when you can run?
Local charity organisation Run The Streets MCR is returning this Friday as they do every month for their October Halloween event, or the ‘Monster Edition’ as they’re calling it.
Run The Streets has only been running, if you’ll pardon the pun, since the start of 2024 but has been steadily growing a loyal following of volunteers and participants as the year has gone on.
The club, whose motto is ‘run, rave, raise’, does exactly that: they set off on a steady-paced social run with luminous wristbands and glowsticks from a different Manc location before heading back to said venue for one big party.
All this happens whilst team members play tunes from their portable speaker backpacks and the runners help generate funds for the chosen charity of the month by simply buying a ticket.
Sounds great, right?
Well, combo all that with an easy twilight running tour of Manchester as you cross off each of this year’s inflatable Halloween monsters and you have a pretty fun night on the cards if you ask us.
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There are a total of 16 inflatable monsters to be identified in and around the city centre and the organisers will be playing a healthy selectional of seasonal Halloween bangers on the playlist too.
Fancy dress encourages if you want to make things even more fun and there’ll be two fantastic local DJs on when you make it back to Joshua Brooks for the real party.
This month the RTS crew are raising money on behalf of The Society for Abandoned Animals, so you can rest easy knowing you’ve done you’re bit whilst also enjoying some healthy exercise and a boogie afterwards. Runners meet at 7pm and tickets cost just £7.21.
You can learn more about their usual events down below – it’s one of our favourite charitable initiatives at the moment so definitely check them out.
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