WORCESTERSHIRE companies are being asked to support the 2014 Acorns Triple Run by becoming corporate sponsors. The organisers of the event on Sunday, June 22 are offering businesses a selection of packages to join Rybrook BMW Worcester, sportswear Company ASICS and King’s School, Worcester, which are among those already signed up. They also want to contact firms or organisations that can supply much-needed items like barriers, traffic cones, bottled water and cereal bars.

The run, which starts at the Three Counties Showground, Malvern, raises funds for Acorns Children’s Hospice. During the past eight years more than 10,000 people have been involved. There are three courses the 1km Fun Run, the 5km Woodland Trail and the Malvern Half Marathon. Designed to appeal to all ages, levels of fitness and sporting ability they allow members of the family, both young and old to participate. All three races start together and end under the same finish arch at the showground.

Acorns' major events officer Shujea Khatun said: “We are very keen to hear from organisations which would like to find out more about becoming a corporate sponsor. We are also in need of organisations which can lend to us barriers and traffic cones, or donate water and cereal bars. Acorns Children's Hospice doesn’t charge families for making use of its services, regardless of the ever increasing costs involved. We rely heavily on public fundraising and voluntary donations from events such as the Triple Run to provide us with the majority of the funding we need to operate.”

Anyone wishing to take part in this year’s Triple Run should visit http://www.acorns.org.uk/triplerun or call 0844 984 0405. Acorns Triple Run can be followed on Twitter by using #triplerun2014.