London Marathon 2024 runners predicted to raise record amount for charities (2024)

FAQs

How much do you need to raise for charity to run London Marathon? ›

Find answers to the most commonly answered questions below. And if you still can't find the answer to your question, check out our fundraising FAQs, or send us an email. The registration fee for the TCS London Marathon is £100 and we ask all our charity place fundraisers to raise a minimum of £2,200.

If you don't raise the total amount, this may restrict you from being given a charity place for any event in the future. Each charity place costs the Trust money, so we ask that you have a realistic plan of how you will reach the £2,500 target before you accept the place.

53,000. Well, just over, to be precise. This huge figure refers to the number of people who completed the 2024 London Marathon – making it the largest London Marathon since the event started in 1981.

Hugh Brasher, Event Director for the TCS London Marathon, said: “The 2024 TCS London Marathon broke many records over the weekend and this fantastic news from Enthuse and JustGiving means that we have already broken our own world record of £66.4 million from 2019 as the world's biggest one-day annual fundraising event.

If you don't hit your target you'll still receive any funds you raised (minus our small processing costs), so you can still make good things happen! If you raise less than you intended you'll just have to rethink the scope of your project, or find a way to raise the additional money you need.

Thank you very much for your interest in running the 2024 Virtual TCS London Marathon for Dementia Concern! We have ten spaces for the virtual event, which will take place on the same day as the regular event but can be completed anywhere in the world.

It's arguably a more reliable method of obtaining a spot than entering the ballot, though that's not to say it's easy to get a charity place. You'll need to move quickly: Some charities are so oversubscribed that they close registrations more than six months before the race.

You are unable to make sufficient progress in the Event to allow You to complete the Event in line with timelines set by Event officials. Competitors will only be eligible for a medal and to feature in the results if they complete the course before the official cut off time.

First, there is a lottery open to UK residents and foreign runners. Chances are not great, but they're not zero. It's referred to at the marathon website as the “public ballot”, but it's a lottery. Second, there's “good for age”.

Famous faces taking part included comedian and TV presenter Romesh Ranganathan, who was running for suicide prevention charity Campaign Against Living Miserably, and actress Ruth Wilson. Comedian Joel Dommett ran in the Piranha costume first worn by this year's Masked Singer winner, McFly's Danny Jones.

How many people actually finish the London Marathon? ›

The London Marathon (also known as the TCS London Marathon for sponsorship reasons) is an annual marathon held in London, England. It is the largest marathon in the world, with over 53,700 finishers in 2024, and 840,318 applicants for the 2025 event.

Anya Culling (born 24 November 1998) is a British runner who has represented England at the Copenhagen Marathon and competed in the elite category at the London Marathon.

More than 840,000 runners enter the ballot for the 2025 London Marathon. Want to run 26.2 miles in London? You're not the only one. The London Marathon made history on Sunday [28 April] with an unprecedented surge in applications for a ballot place in the 2025 edition.

Global IT advisory firm Tata Consultancy Services has become the title sponsor of the London Marathon. Taking over from Virgin Money, the firm will now work to enhance the participant and supporter experience of the event, and boost sports-related activities and charitable giving across the UK.

The move makes the event the only marathon in the world to award winners the same sum — $55,000 for first place, $30,000 for the runners-up and $22,500 for third-place finishers.

Each year, most major charities are given a set number of TCS London Marathon entry places through the Golden and Silver Bond schemes. They allocate these places to runners who, in return, agree to raise a minimum amount of money for that charity.

If you miss out on a ballot place, fear not, you can still take part in the London Marathon by applying to run for a charity. Each year, most major charities are given a set number London Marathon entry places (a full list of charities with spots available are on the event's website).