Have you set yourself a challenge for 2021 to get fit? Started a training program and eating clean? Keep it up and run in the Virgin London Marathon 2021! The ballot for marathon places has now closed, but you could snap up a charity place, released today!
London Marathon Charity Places
Milton Keynes based children’s charity Toybox has 5 places available to runners who would like to sign up to fundraise for their place.
Toybox is a charity dedicated to supporting the lives of street children across the globe, with a UK based team in Bletchley fundraising and supporting projects overseas.
Lynne Morris, CEO at Toybox explains more about the charity: “Toybox supports street children who have no choice but to live or work on the streets of most of the dangerous cities in the world; like San Salvador in El Salvador where gangs control vast areas of the city and use street children as young as 4 years old to carry messages and drugs, if they refuse they can be killed. For over 25 years now Toybox has been raising money to help get children off the streets and back into school, if this is impossible Toybox provides emergency support, like medical care, providing sleeping packs, a hot meal and more.”
Don’t miss out on a once in a lifetime chance to run the world-famous route, taking in some of the most famous London landmarks including Buckingham Palace, The Cutty Sark, Tower Bridge and Canary Wharf.
Toybox London Marathon Team
8 months, 3 weeks and 3 days of training to go! If you have already applied for a ballot place, these are due to be allocated 8th Feb, if you don’t receive a place, why not apply for a charity marathon place with Toybox?
Sign up now to support Toybox, or visit our Just Giving page to support our London Marathon team.
For further information please contact Toybox on 01908 360080 or email supporters@toybox.org
About Virgin London Marathon
- The VLM will take place on Sunday 3rd October 2021.
- The London Marathon was first held on 29 March 1981 and the millionth finisher in the history of the event crossed the line in 2016.
- The world’s largest annual one-day fundraising event, in 2019 the Virgin Money London Marathon raised £66.4 million for charity, setting a new Guinness World Record for an annual one-day charity fundraising event for a 13th successive year. This brought the total raised for charity since 1981 to more than £1 billion.
- More than three quarters of competitors run for a good cause and a third of all entry places are offered by charitable organisations.
