Ways to offer your support > Community Fundraising
Go Sporty - Challenge Events
There are a range of sports and challenge events that you can participate in and in doing so raise funds for St Raphael’s Hospice.
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Virgin London Marathon. Held in April each year.
Applications open for the London Marathon a week after the last one has finished, and are now done entirely online. If you wish to run the Marathon you are advised to apply early using the London Marathon website as soon as the ballot opens (April each year, for the following year). About 100,000 people apply for approx 40,000 places. If you are successful, you can nominate St Raphael’s Hospice as your chosen charity and raise whatever funds you can.
Please let us know if you get your “own place”.
If you are not allocated an “own place” you can apply to St Raphael’s Hospice for a guaranteed charity place, called a “Gold Bond” place. There is an application form available from our Community Fundraiser, Louisa Hitchen. We do also usually receive more applications than we have places available, and please be aware that for the guaranteed charity Gold Bond places, there is a minimum fundraising requirement of £2,000. But to put that in perspective, that is the equivalent of raising £20 from 100 people. SO ... how many friends, work colleagues, family & friends do you known who would sponsor you to take part in the worlds premier marathon? Fundraising to raise that money in other ways is also acceptable.
Other sporty, challenge events include the following, full details available on request
- 10th July 2011
- 1st Sunday of September
- Ladies only - St Raphael’s Hospice Midnight Walk - Saturday 11th September 2010 –
5 miles, starts and finishes at the hospice, North Cheam,
- Newcastle Sunday 19th September Own place runners needed
- Half Marathon Sunday 26th September –
The O2 Arena Guaranteed places available £350 minimum sponsorship per place
- Great South Run, Portsmouth Sunday 24th October.
Own place runners needed
Other events
- or why not take part in a sponsored parachute jump?
- or climb Ben Nevis
- or a foreign trek, loads available
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CONTACT:
- Louisa Hitche
- 020 8644 3857
- fundraising@straphaels.org.uk
