Did you know it’s not just love that makes the world go round this Christmas - gorilla poo plays a key role too. Read more…

The Gorilla Weekend at Nature-in-Art (near Gloucester UK) on behalf of The Gorilla Organization was a great success, raising over £800. The aim of the series of events was to raise awareness and in particular the activity weekend was designed to get youngsters interested in gorillas. Read more…

Grumpy Gorilla is showing true Christmas spirit and supporting gorilla conservation by raising valuable funding for the Gorilla Organization’s conservation and community development projects. Read more…

CHRISTMAS! Is there a more exciting time of year?

Here at Gorilla HQ the Christmas decorations are up and the Christmas tunes are playing. But what is the best Christmas song?

We just can’t decide so we’re asking you to vote for your favourite song. Some of our staff and volunteers have selected their favourite Christmas tune. Who will you vote for? Read more…

Around the half-way point of the Great Gorilla Run, the route turns south across Southwark Bridge and greeting the runners as they descend the steep steps onto Bankside, is a national treasure - Shakespeare’s Globe. Read more…

Blackpool Zoo has been actively supporting the Gorilla Organization for 15 years - carrying out fundraising events and public collections and raising over £10,000 for gorilla conservation. Various activities have taken place at the zoo including awareness weeks, acting ape workshops and even a gorilla poo throwing competition! Read more…

It’s not often that we non-teacher “adults” find ourselves in a primary school but that’s just where I found myself yesterday, dressed in a gorilla suit. Read more…

The City of London, the heart of the financial world, is the cornerstone of the Great Gorilla Run.

The run starts and finishes in Dunster Court, right underneath the Lloyds Building and the Gerkin, and no Great Gorilla Run would be complete without a fat cat, City gent, strolling along, oozing the confidence that comes from complete and utter indulgence in unbridled capitalism. Read more…

Christmas, the festive feasting period is upon us. Time for a little indulgence and fattening up ahead of stringent New Year Great Gorilla Run training regime.

And when it comes to banana recipes it doesn’t get any more indulgent than banoffee pie. Read more…

The Tate Modern isn’t just a Great Gorilla Run Route Highlight - it is, quite simply, one of the highlights of the entire world!

London is blessed with incredible places - music venues, museums, galleries, parks, eateries and not least the cheeky-chappie people.

But the Tate Modern is super-highlight, one of those places that you can return to time and time again and never, ever get bored.

It’s appropriate that such an uber-location is situated on the Great Gorilla Run route - after all, the Great Gorilla Run is London’s uber-charity fun run. Read more…

I reckon Finsbury Park gets a bad press…

Yeah OK it’s not the prettiest place in London, but a few laps of the park’s inner road represents a really good Great Gorilla Run workout and on your way out of the park you can grab the best bagels outside of Brick Lane. Read more…

Down at Great Gorilla HQ, we’ve been hearing rumours of a Super-Hero race, in fact, a whole series of super-hero races across the country.

These wannabe all-costume run organisers even have the audacity to stage one of their super-hero races on the same day as the Great Gorilla Run 2010 - Sunday 26th September - how very dare they?

But we’re not bothered. The fact is here in Great Gorilla World, we’re bursting at the seams with super-heros. Read more…

The winter solstice is just 10 days away and the shortest day of the year is almost upon us…

Tough times Great Gorillas. We’re exhibitionists - we like to be seen. So it’s hard strutting along on our Great Gorilla Run training runs in the shadowy December mists. Read more…

If you’re fed up with plodding along with your Great Gorilla Run training preparations on flat ground and think it’s time to test your mettle against some urban hills, then Hampstead Heath’s the place for you Great Gorilla. Read more…

Around about the half-way point of the Great Gorilla Run, the route enters what can only be described as tourist heaven.

Running off Southwark Bridge and hitting Bankside, a Great Gorilla cannot help but exclaim “holy schmoly - it’s all happening here!”. Read more…

Buddy G Orilla’s been conspicuous by his absence over the past week.

Admittedly we’re in the depths of winter, the Great Gorilla Run 2010 is a long way off and we’re all feeling a bit S.A.D, but irrespective of such seasonal factors, Gorilla Organization HQ has seemed a lesser space without his chipper, hairy face around the place. Read more…

At the Great Gorilla Run, there’s bananas everywhere:

• all over the start / finish area;
• In runner’s goody bags;
• Spectators offering them to runners as a pick-you-up around the course;
• Runners holding giant inflatable ones
• Some runners placing them strategically amongst their attire for comic effect - check out Mankini Gorilla
• And of course, some people running them… Read more…

Oh my gosh gorillas, it’s mighty cold out there!

Just been for a run and I was into my second loop before my fingers and toes lost their chill. And it’s only just December, not even real winter yet… Read more…