{"id":1372,"date":"2015-04-26T06:00:21","date_gmt":"2015-04-26T06:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1372"},"modified":"2015-04-26T06:00:21","modified_gmt":"2015-04-26T06:00:21","slug":"the-london-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1372","title":{"rendered":"The London Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"

London full of runners<\/h1>\n

April 26th 2015 sees London full of runners as the Virgin Money London Marathon takes to the streets. The London Marathon began back in 1981 with 6255 runners.\u00a0Since then the event has grown in size, stature and popularity and is shown on television around the world.<\/p>\n

\"runners\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Fun runners\u00a0use the race to raise millions of pounds\u00a0for charity.<\/h2>\n

Virgin took over\u00a0sponsorship of the London Marathon from\u00a0Flora. The\u00a0\u00a317m deal\u00a0started in 2010. At the time, Virgin Founder, Sir Richard Branson said he was delighted to sponsor \u00a0the “epic and inspirational event”<\/a> which\u00a0raises money for great causes.\u00a0Virgin’s aim was to\u00a0“help runners smash the \u00a3\u00bc billion in five years.” <\/a><\/p>\n

By 2014, Virgin was able to report that the goal of a quarter of a billion pounds <\/a>for charity in\u00a0five years had been broken. As at September 17th\u00a02014 the total raised for charity during the Virgin Money sponsorship stood at \u00a3261.4 million<\/a>. That brought\u00a0the total raised for\u00a0charitable causes to more than \u00a3716 million since the race began.<\/p>\n

The last five, of eight record years of charity fundraising, are given on the official\u00a0Virgin Money London Marathon site <\/a>as\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0:<\/p>\n

2010 \u2013 \u00a350.6 million
\n2011 \u2013 \u00a351.8 million
\n2012 \u2013 \u00a352.8 million
\n2013 \u2013 \u00a353.0 million
\n2014 \u2013 \u00a353.2 million<\/p>\n

Data from https:\/\/www.virginmoneylondonmarathon.com\/en-gb\/<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0Good luck to all the runners……<\/h3>\n

and a special shout out to Barbara Durham<\/a>.<\/h3>\n
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