A record-breaking 840,318 folks from the UK and throughout the globe have utilized within the public poll for an entry to subsequent 12 months’s TCS London Marathon, which takes place on Sunday 27 April 2025.
The entire is approach above the previous world record total of 578,374, which was set final 12 months within the poll for the 2024 TCS London Marathon.
The entire variety of UK functions for 2025 was 672,631 of which 338,549 have been functions from males (50.33% of the whole), 329,793 from ladies (49.03% of the whole) and 4,288 (0.64% of the whole) from non-binary functions.
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There have been an extra 167,687 functions from non-UK residents within the worldwide poll.
Hugh Brasher, Occasion Director for the TCS London Marathon, mentioned:
Marathon Day is at all times a rare and inspirational day after we have a good time the perfect of humanity. The distinctive camaraderie of the occasion and the wonderful assist from the large crowds present London at its greatest and this 12 months, in a world beset by many challenges, it felt like these magical days of London 2012 when pleasure and love have been in all places.
“The 2024 TCS London Marathon on 21 April was the most important in our historical past with greater than 53,700 finishers and has already raised a world record-breaking £67 million for charities. Greater than 12,900 youngsters took half within the mass TCS Mini London Marathon the day earlier than and a whole bunch of 1000’s of youngsters throughout the UK are actually doing their Mini Marathon of their faculties.
“We work to encourage exercise in folks of all ages and skills and these astonishing record-breaking numbers present how the TCS London Marathon does that and the way many individuals wish to be a part of it.”
Because the first London Marathon in 1981, the occasion has raised greater than £1.2 billion for charity. 2025’s official charity of the year is Pancreatic Cancer UK. Every year, London Marathon Occasions additionally presents its surplus to the London Marathon Basis (the working identify of The London Marathon Charitable Belief, and since 1981, the London Marathon Basis has awarded £105 million to greater than 1,690 initiatives that encourage exercise in London and throughout the UK.
How charities can become involved
Charities within the alternatives supplied by the TCS London Marathon can register their curiosity here. There are a selection of the way for charities to become involved with the TCS London Marathon, with initiatives on provide together with the Charity Bond scheme, the Charity Promoting Partnership Programme and the Charity Poll. The bond scheme sees charities given a set variety of locations which they’ll then allocate to runners, and the poll gives a possibility for UK-registered charities to safe locations. A evaluation of the Golden Bond, Silver Bond, Charity Poll and one-year Charity Bond schemes implies that there will likely be some adjustments to how the Bond scheme works from 2026, which may be examine here.
The Charity Poll didn’t happen for the 2024 TCS London Marathon because of the remaining redistribution of charity locations from the cancelled mass 2020 London Marathon and the variety of rolled-over charity locations from the final three years. Particulars on the Charity Poll going ahead haven’t but been introduced.