The Indigenous Marathon Foundation

The Indigenous Marathon Foundation Health promotion charity using running to celebrate and amplify Indigenous resilience and achievement

The Indigenous Marathon Foundation is not a sporting program, but a healthy education initiative that provides funding to assist Indigenous communities to promote running, healthy lifestyles and to complement existing Indigenous community health initiatives. The Project annually selects a group of young Indigenous men and women (aged between 18-30) to take part in the world famous New York City Ma

rathon with just six months of training. This highlights the incredible natural talent that exists within this population, with the hope to one day unearth an Indigenous long-distance running champion to take on the African dominance. The core running squad push their physical and mental boundaries to beyond what they ever thought they were capable of, and after crossing the finish line of the world’s biggest marathon, they know they can achieve anything. These runners are trained to become healthy lifestyle leaders by completing a Certificate IV in Health and Leisure, with a focus on Indigenous Healthy Lifestyle. This qualification is used to promote community based health and exercise initiatives including the Deadly Fun Run Series. Runners become role models within their communities and are leaders in the promotion of health and physical exercise in order to address the high instances of chronic disease such as diabetes, heart disease and renal failure.

🫶🏾 It’ll be hard, but we can do hard things. See our 2025 IMP squad members in The Long Run, each bringing authenticity,...
10/06/2026

🫶🏾 It’ll be hard, but we can do hard things.

See our 2025 IMP squad members in The Long Run, each bringing authenticity, courage and openness to this documentary project.✨

📺 Watch The Long Run, 28 June on Channel 9 + 9Now and Stan.

Find out more: https://donate.imf.org.au

05/06/2026

🏉👟Two legends go toe-to-toe in The Long Run. They can play footy, but can they run a marathon?

💪🏾 This Sunday, many of our IMF Family will be hitting the start line at the 2026 EVA Air Brisbane Marathon Festival, in...
04/06/2026

💪🏾 This Sunday, many of our IMF Family will be hitting the start line at the 2026 EVA Air Brisbane Marathon Festival, including runners from our IMF RAW Bramble Bay and IMF RAW Mitchelton groups.

Wishing all participants an awesome race day! The energy and atmosphere will be incredible. Thanks to our partners Atlas Events for your ongoing support. 🎉


Brisbane Marathon Festival

🥳 Landing just in time to celebrate all-things IMF and The Long Run this EOFY! Grab a pair of our limited-edition runnin...
03/06/2026

🥳 Landing just in time to celebrate all-things IMF and The Long Run this EOFY! Grab a pair of our limited-edition running socks and be part of the story.

Your sock purchase contributes to the delivery of IMF programs across the pillars of Health, Education and Leadership. 🙏🏾

Head to The Long Run to buy your socks: https://donate.imf.org.au

📸 Thank you, Nathaniel Cooper, 2026 IMP squad member, for these incredible images.

🎬 The Long Run will ignite a fire within, highlighting the resilience, strength, and enduring spirit of First Nations pe...
02/06/2026

🎬 The Long Run will ignite a fire within, highlighting the resilience, strength, and enduring spirit of First Nations peoples.

At IMF, we believe running has the power to heal in ways one never expects, revealing what’s possible when community, connection, and support come together.

A heartfelt thank you to our documentary funding partners TCS, ASICS and KIA for helping bring this important story to life and amplifying the voices, journeys and experiences at the heart of The Long Run. 🏃🏾‍♀️🏃🏿‍♂️

📺 Watch The Long Run, 28 June on Channel 9 + 9Now and Stan

Find out more via the link in bio or visit: https://donate.imf.org.au

31/05/2026

🔥 It’s OFFICIAL.🔥

We’re incredibly excited to finally share The Long Run is coming to Channel 9 on Sunday, 28 June, when Australia will get an inside look at the powerful stories behind the Indigenous Marathon Project (IMP) and the Indigneous Marathon Foundation (IMF) in a special fly-on-the-wall documentary, featuring legends Johnathan Thurston, Lance Franklin and the 2025 IMP squad.

Last year, the brilliant crew at Good Shout captured moments of challenge, growth, resilience and transformation — through plenty of blood, sweat and tears — as they prepared to complete their first marathon, the TCS New York City Marathon.

The Long Run is about leadership, health, identity, family, and the positive ripple effect that opportunity can create in communities, while celebrating Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture as Australia’s greatest national treasure.

Thank you, JT and Buddy for putting your bodies on the line to help tell our story — and to the 2025 IMP squad, now program graduates, who each brought authenticity, courage and openness to this project.

📺 Watch The Long Run, 28 June on Channel 9 + 9Now and Stan

Find out more: https://donate.imf.org.au

🤝🏽 Exciting news for Western Australia! The Indigenous Marathon Foundation is happy to announce our 2026 Partnership wit...
28/05/2026

🤝🏽 Exciting news for Western Australia! The Indigenous Marathon Foundation is happy to announce our 2026 Partnership with the Aspen Medical Foundation, who is continuing support of the delivery of our I-CAN program in remote communities.

Through this partnership with Aspen Medical Foundation, we’re able to deliver our I-CAN program (Indigenous Communities for Activity and Nutrition) in Term 3 at Peg’s Creek Primary School to a new cohort of students, following the success of 2025.

Students will have the opportunity to participate in health screenings, learn more about healthy habits and physical activity, and build their leadership skills while helping to improve school attendance. Thank you

🤝🏽 Exciting news for Western Australia! The Indigenous Marathon Foundation is happy to announce our 2026 Partnership wit...
28/05/2026

🤝🏽 Exciting news for Western Australia! The Indigenous Marathon Foundation is happy to announce our 2026 Partnership with the Aspen Medical Foundation, who is continuing support of the delivery of our I-CAN program in remote communities.

Through this partnership with Aspen Medical Foundation, we’re able to deliver our I-CAN program (Indigenous Communities for Activity and Nutrition) in Term 3 at Peg’s Creek Primary School to a new cohort of students, following the success of 2025.

Students will have the opportunity to participate in health screenings, learn more about healthy habits and physical activity, and build their leadership skills while helping to improve school attendance. Thank you Aspen Medical Foundation ✨

This National Reconciliation Week, we’re proud to be All In. At the Indigenous Marathon Foundation reconciliation is m...
27/05/2026

This National Reconciliation Week, we’re proud to be All In.

At the Indigenous Marathon Foundation reconciliation is more than a conversation, it’s something that we take action on every single day.
Our programs work directly with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and communities to improve health and educational outcomes, build leadership skills and bring communities closer together through the power of running.

This year’s theme ‘All In’ makes clear that reconciliation is not a spectator sport and that we must ALL play an active role in moving toward reconciliation. The theme also reminds us that it is not solely the responsibility of First Nations people, who have carried the weight of championing, explaining and acting for far too long.

Reconciliation will not happen by itself, and it will not happen without all of us.

Reconciliation Australia

🔥 We’re thrilled to officially announce Brooke Blurton as our 2026 IMF Ambassador!Proud Noongar-Yamatji woman, Brooke we...
21/05/2026

🔥 We’re thrilled to officially announce Brooke Blurton as our 2026 IMF Ambassador!

Proud Noongar-Yamatji woman, Brooke wears many career hats: media personality, author, TV host and youth worker — just to name a few.

She has been a trailblazer for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community, long using her platform to advocate for mob.

Championing conversations around representation, identity, health and community, Brooke has always inspired mob to back themselves, embrace who they are, and prioritise their wellbeing — values that strongly align with the work we do at IMF.

Her passion for sport and movement started in her early years, playing numerous footy codes and team sports, but her busy schedule limited her to committing to a team, so she turned to running as way to reconnect with movement and make time for herself.

Brooke joined our 2026 Indigenous Marathon Project (IMP) squad at the Canberra Mother’s Day Classic on 10 May, marking the start of her journey with us and she will be helping to amplify our Every Step Matters virtual run this September. Stay tuned for more. 👀

Read more: https://www.imf.org.au/ambassador-brooke-blurton

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