The ballot for places in the 2015 Virgin London Marathon closed in record time this year. People will find out in early October if they have nabbed a position, but until then the only way to be totally sure of a place is to agree to run for a charity. And what better way to motivate yourself to get into top training than to know that in doing so you'll be helping to raise some much needed funds for your favourite cause?
Here is a full list of charities with places in the 2015 London Marathon. Apply to the charity directly to ask for a place on their team, and then remember to come back to Charity Choice to set up your fundraising page!
The official charity of the Virgin London Marathon 2015 is
Charities with marathon places you can fundraise for with Charity Choice
AICR (Association for International Cancer Research)
Children's Cancer and Leukaemia Group
International Justice Mission UK
Meningitis Research Foundation
Motor Neurone Disease Association
Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation
TACT - The Adolescent and Children's Trust
The Institute of Cancer Research
Other charities with places in the marathon - find their contact details in the Charity Choice directory
Above and Beyond
Action Against Hunger UK
ActionAid
Age UK
Alzheimer's Society
Ambitious about Autism
Amnesty International
Anthony Nolan
Arthritis Research UK
Asthma UK
Barnardo's
Basildon & Thurrock University Hospital Charitable Trust
Beating Bowel Cancer
BLESMA (British Limbless Ex Service Men's Association)
Bliss - the premature baby charity
Blue Cross Animal Welfare Charity
Bone Cancer Research Trust
Breast Cancer Campaign
Breast Cancer Care
British Heart Foundation
British Lung Foundation
British Red Cross
Buttle UK
Caudwell Children
Chance to Shine (Cricket Foundation)
Childhood First
Children in Crisis
Children with Cancer UK
Childrens Arthritis Trust
City Year - London
CLIC Sargent
Concern Worldwide
Crimestoppers
Crisis UK
Cystic Fibrosis Trust
Dementia UK
Dystonia Society
EMERGENCY UK
Genetic Disorders UK
Get A-Head Charitable Trust
Get Kids Going!
Guide Dogs
Guy's and St Thomas' (Together We Can)
Hearing Dogs for Deaf People
Hospice of the Good Shepherd
Jennifer Trust for Spinal Muscular Atrophy
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
Kidney Research UK
King's College Hospital (Together We Can)
Langdon Foundation
Laureus Sport for Good Foundation
Learning for Life
Lesbian & Gay Foundation
Lessons for Life Foundation
Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research
Limbless Association
LINC - Leaukaemia & Intensive Chemotherapy Fund
LOOK – The National Federation of Families with Visually Impaired Children
Macmillan Cancer Support
Malaria No More UK
Marie Curie Cancer Care
Matt Hampson Foundation
Maypole Project
Mencap
Merlin – Medical Expert’s on the frontline
Micro & Anophthalmic Children’s Society (MACS)
Mind
MPD Voice
MS-UK
Multiple Sclerosis Trust
National Autistic Society
National Osteoporosis Society
National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society
Newlife Foundation for Disabled Children
Nystagmus Network
Oasis UK
Orchid – Fighting Male Cancer
Oxfam
Parkinson’s UK
Polycystic Kidney Disease Charity
Railway Children
Rainbow Trust Children's Charity
Refuge
RFU Injured Players Foundation
Royal National Institute of Blind People
Saint Francis Hospice
Samaritans
Save the Rhino
Sense – for deafblind people
South London and Maudsley (Together We Can)
SPARKS
St John Ambulance
Starlight
Stonewall
Teens and Toddlers
The Air Ambulance Service
The Children's Society
The Children's Trust
The Neurofibromatosis Association (NfA)
The Outward Bound Trust
The Royal British Legion
The Royal Surrey Appeal
Tommy's, the baby charity
Unicef UK
VICTA - Visually Impaired Children Taking Action
WaterAid
WellChild
Whizz-Kidz
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