EDF Energy Birmingham Half Marathon '08 - Race against climate change

Birmingham City Council
The EDF Energy Birmingham Half Marathon is being organised by Birmingham City Council. The council is the largest local authority in the country.
Birmingham is a global city with a local heart. It is a successful, confident, growing city with a diverse culture and strong links to cities across Europe and the globe. It is an attractive city with over one million residents.

Birmingham has a passion for sport and has a fantastic reputation for staging successful major sports events. Birmingham City Council is also committed to encouraging local people to live happier and healthier lives and with this in mind hopes that many local residents will take part in the EDF Energy Birmingham Half Marathon.

EDF Energy
EDF Energy is one of the UK’s largest energy companies. We provide power to a quarter of the UK’s population via our electricity distribution networks in London, the South East and the East of England. We supply gas and electricity to over 5 million customers and generate about 5GW of energy from our coal and gas power stations, as well as combined heat and power plants and wind farms.

Through Our Climate and Social Commitments we have launched the biggest environmental and social packages of any UK company. The company is also a key player in national infrastructure projects including management of private electricity networks serving four London airports and the Channel Tunnel Rail Link, the country’s first major new railway in 100 years.

EDF Energy employs nearly 13,000 people at locations across the UK and is a core part of EDF Group, one of Europe’s largest power companies. EDF is the official energy utilities partner and a sustainability partner of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Heart of Birmingham Teaching Primary Care Trust

Heart of Birmingham Teaching Primary Care Trust is responsible for buying and providing health services in an area stretching from Oscott and Perry
Barr in the north to Sparkbrook and Sparkhill in the south.

With an annual budget of around £520 million (2008/09), the PCT operates 20 health centres and commissions services from more than 170 GPs based in over 75 practices. It also buys the services of dentists, pharmacists and opticians, for people who live inside the PCT boundaries.

The PCT has decided to support the Birmingham Half Marathon because of the contribution which exercise and fitness make to the health of the city.

100.7 Heart fm is the biggest commercial radio station in the West Midlands with 822,000 adult listeners per week. Heart’s core audience is 25-44 adults with female friendly and male credible programming. Listeners connect with Heart because they want music in their lives, whatever they are doing, however they are feeling.
Heart plays the right songs to get them up in the mornings, keep them going through the day and keep them entertained throughout the week. Heart Breakfast with Ed James and Rachel New is also the most listened to commercial breakfast show in the region, making them the first choice for listeners in and around Birmingham, Wolverhampton and Coventry.

The Midlands division of Trinity Mirror incorporates the Birmingham Post and Mail, Coventry Newspapers and Midland Weekly Media.

We are the region’s largest newspaper publisher covering 11 counties, 20,000 square miles and reaching over 2 million readers every week. Our portfolio includes prestigious daily titles such as the Birmingham Mail, Birmingham Post and Coventry Telegraph, along with numerous market leading weekly titles, a comprehensive and expanding network of websites and a number of niche magazines.

With a distinguished heritage in local newspaper production stretching back to the launch of the Birmingham Post in 1857, we also consistently lead the way in newspaper production and audience reach and enjoy the backing of the UK’s largest newspaper publisher, the Trinity Mirror Group.