Donations & Fundraising

Welcome to Our Donations & Fundraising Page

The Foundation was established to continue the passion that Bruce Longden had in coaching hurdles, at all levels, and with both athletes and coaches worldwide.

Over the last 15 years we have teamed up with the excellent 300m/400m Hurdles Training Days (now 200m/300m/400m Hurdles Training Days) held at Lee Valley Athletics Centre throughout the winter months, under the guidance of the very knowledgeable Lead Coach Brian Hopkins, and for the last 5 years we have worked with England Athletics on the Sprint Hurdles Training Camps across the country, and held over the last 3 months of each year.  Add to this the annual BLCF Hurdles Fest, in conjunction again with England Athletics and Chelmsford Sports and Athletics Centre, we are continue to move forward with hurdles development.

Since its inception the Foundation has assisted numerous individual athletes in various areas, with travel costs to training sessions, competitions, and courses, as well as seeking help from qualified sports psychologists and nutritionists.

However, the one thing we always need is funding.  Obviously, we do have assistance in some areas  to cover essential costs, and great assistance from a few sponsors, but with the higher cost now of facility hire, sadly we do not break even on our courses and events.  We have had to raise the various course fees each year, but have managed to keep this to the bare minimum.

To this end, if you are willing to spare a few £s here, and there, please do so, as every £ helps, and please help us spread the word.  And remember every £ we receive is ploughed straight back into hurdles development.

Why We Need Donations & Fundraising

Bruce’s passion was to help coaches, at all levels, it was a passion that he put into practice, and many coaches in the UK and other parts of the world can all recall, and relate, to the way he helped them – whether it was a school teacher helping their pupils, or a club coach trying to enhance their knowledge to pass on to their athletes, or just sitting down and ‘shooting the breeze’ with international coaches, that would increase his own knowledge to assist his own athletes, or to pass onto others.  Bruce’s philosophy was that as a coach – you never, ever, stop learning.

The Foundation was established to continue that passion of helping coaches, and athletes, from any country that had little, or no, coaching or athlete development.  Throughout his life, Bruce coached almost every track and field event, but Hurdles always remained his passion.

We do hope you will be able to support us and keep Bruce’s passion alive.