VCM Charity

Realbuzz

Join Realbuzz and run for an international cause close to your heart! Our partner charities in the UK, US, and around the world are looking for amazing people like you. With guaranteed race entries, all you need to do is pick a charity, join their team, and start your journey to race day! 

Doctors Without Borders – “We go where it hurts.”

Following this motto, Doctors Without Borders provides emergency medical aid in conflict and crisis zones in more than 70 countries worldwide.

When the healthcare system collapses, Doctors Without Borders steps in to care for patients — regardless of who they are, what they believe in, or which side of a conflict they stand on. They help people in need — neutral, independent, and impartial. At the same time, they give those affected a voice and report on the suffering they witness on the ground.

Doctors Without Borders Austria is funded 100% by private donations. This guarantees independence from political, economic, or religious interests.

Join the Doctors Without Borders Austria charity running team and secure your discounted entry for the Vienna City Half Marathon!

Run with Sindbad for equal opportunities!

If a marathon were like real life, some would start on bikes or in cars, while others would have to run on foot. Unfortunately, that’s the reality: not all young people start life with the same opportunities.

Since 2016, Sindbad has been committed to creating equal opportunities for socioeconomically disadvantaged youth. Through our mentoring program, we offer free support to young people transitioning from their final year of compulsory school to an apprenticeship or further education. Students and young professionals accompany them for several months, strengthen their future plans, and help them successfully begin their training or career.

Secure your Sindbad race entry or start your own fundraising campaign for Sindbad — and run at the Vienna City Marathon for more equal opportunities!

Running for those who can't do it themselves - for children with MPS!

Your support for our MPS therapy week results in more mobility and less pain and therefore quality of life and often even time - time to live. Please help us to improve the lives of MPS children!

A piece of normality for families with seriously ill children!

A marathon like this is pretty exhausting, so you can sometimes run out of breath. Parents of seriously ill children must never run out of breath. They do a superhuman job, day after day, around the clock. We cannot relieve them of this immense burden, but we can make it a little easier. Arche Herzensbrücken is a temporary retreat with nursing relief, music, painting and animal-assisted therapies and psychosocial support. A place that brings shared moments of joy and happiness into the lives of affected families, allowing them to take time out to recharge their batteries and give them hope. Please help too, give a piece of normality!

MOMO children's hospice: We are there in laughter and in tears

The MOMO children's hospice and children's palliative care team has been providing medical, nursing, therapeutic, psychosocial and voluntary support to seriously ill children aged 0 to 18 and their families at home since 2013. The care programme is free of charge for affected families and is largely financed by donations.

MOMO is there for the whole family from the moment a child is diagnosed with a life-threatening or life-shortening illness and beyond death - in laughter and in tears. As unique as every seriously ill child and every family situation is, MOMO also responds to the need for care on an individual basis. The MOMO team is multi-professional to ensure that this is successful.

Run for MOMO at the Vienna City Marathon! This will raise important donations for the care of seriously ill children and their families.

I am a pacemaker. For children's rights.

Children have very special rights and need protection. But the reality of children in poor countries is very different: Poverty, malnutrition, exploitation, violence, abuse, no schooling. Kindernothilfe strengthens and protects girls and boys worldwide. It campaigns against exploitative child labour and for children's rights such as education and health. For the chance of a decent life. You too can be a pacemaker. So that children's rights are realised.