DJ Run 2024

DJ Run is an annual event run by Watch Me Rise. DJ Run started as an awareness campaign for the importance of mental health and suicide prevention. The event is named after co-founder Gareth Kropman’s brother who took his own life in 2015. In 2017, two of DJ's friends chose to run for his birthday, the age he would have be on this planet. He would’ve been 28 and so they thought: “Let’s go and do a 28km run”… and they did it!

“I thought it was beautiful and an absolutely amazing idea. I really enjoyed the concept and asked in 2018: 'Are you guys happy for me to try and run with this?'. Bearing in mind, my brother was not an Energizer bunny, at all! I could just imagine him sitting up there having a beer and looking at us and going, 'What are you guys doing?!' But you know what? 2018 came around, we put the message out there and we had quite a few followers coming and joining us.” – Gareth Kropman, co-founder of Watch Me Rise.

Since then it has been growing year on year. It has been amazing to see how people come...