About us

The London Marathon Charitable Trust provides funding to inspire thousands of children and adults across the UK to be active for life.

Our current priorities are to maintain and increase participation in physical activity by:

• Improving facilities in our core areas of London and Surrey to encourage and support all members of the local community to become and remain physically active.
• Supporting ambitious projects across the UK that will challenge inequality of access to physical activity and deliver the greatest possible impact for our target audiences: children and young people and groups we know are less likely to be active, such as women and girls, BAME communities, people from lower socio-economic groups, older people and people with a disability.
• Reflecting the spirit of the London Marathon in our grantmaking.
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Since its founding in 1981, The Trust has awarded in excess of £77 million to more than 1,300 projects in London and beyond.

Vision

A society in which everyone is physically active, contributing to their health and wellbeing.

Mission

To provide funding to:

• Initiatives that enable people to become and remain physically active regardless of age, gender, ability, race or background and challenge inequality of access to physical activity.
• Build, renovate or modernise facilities to support such initiatives.

Values

Inspiration

Operating with ambition and determination to deliver a positive and inspiring legacy. We seek to influence others in ways that leave a lasting positive impact.

Togetherness

Putting inclusion, accessibility, equality and diversity at the heart of our work. We want to make sure that all people and communities across the UK have equal opportunities to access physical activity.

Enabling

Assisting and empowering communities to deliver our shared objectives. We recognise that there are obstacles and barriers for many people to access physical activity and we will ensure that we work with stakeholders to help communities get the maximum benefit from our funding.

Excellence

Bringing together initiatives and funding streams to achieve high quality, lasting benefits for communities. We will strive to improve our effectiveness continually, implementing best practice in order to develop programmes that are focused on the outcomes and the positive difference they make to communities.

Integrity

Acting in an open, honest and transparent way at all times. We will act responsibly and with respect at all times.