About London Marathon Events
London Marathon Events (LME) organises a series of mass-participation events inspiring more than 200,000 participants every year. Its portfolio of world-class events includes the world’s biggest marathon and the world’s greatest festival of cycling. It is also a social purpose company, delivering outreach programmes which inspire activity in all ages, abilities and demographics to schools and communities across the UK.
The mass participation events are:
- Brighton Marathon Weekend
- TCS London Marathon
- TCS Mini London Marathon
- Ford RideLondon
- Standard Chartered Great City Race
- The Big Half, The Big Mile and New Balance Big Relay
- Vitality London 10,000
- Swim Serpentine
- Vitality Westminster Mile
- The Royal Parks Half
The London Marathon is the world’s biggest annual one-day fundraising event and has now raised more than £1.2 billion for thousands of charities since the first edition in 1981.
Since 1981, the London Marathon Foundation has made grants totalling in excess of £105 million to 1,690 projects in London and across the UK that help people to become and remain active.