The 2025 London Marathon - Our Magnificent 7 Made It!
Our very own Magnificent Seven - Harry Churchward, Josh Cobb, Ed Heaven, Mohammed Laher, Max Lawson, Charlie Prentis and Peter Stafford all successfully (and all very quickly) completed The London Marathon 2025 in aid of West London Action for Children on Sunday 27th April, and collectively raised over £22,000! We are truly in awe and extremely grateful for all their hours training and collecting donations.
A big thank you to our support team - Kate, Angela, Gazala, Georgina and Natalie - who were there to cheer them on from the sidelines near Bermondsey Tube Station.
Orange sunglasses and wigs were the order of the day, and it was no easy task to blow whistles, cheer and wave flags, while also trying to capture the moment on camera as our runners passed by Mile 11. The race was then on for the supporters to race across London to meet the finishers at Horse Guards Road to congratulate them on their fantastic achievement.
Our Marathon coordinator, Kate Palmer - who also ran the Marathon for WLAC in 2016 - volunteered her help with supporting our runners throughout the process, and was tracking their progress on the day, live on the TCS London Marathon app. She has been regularly checking in with the runners during their training process, to offer support. Kate recognised that they were a fantastic and dedicated group of runners, who were very supportive of WLAC and had all written thoughtful words on their fundraising pages. They all finished in under 4 hours and 1 minute - a record for WLAC!
The runners were running for WLAC, but also in memory of Heather Boxer - our much missed Chief Executive, who very sadly passed away in January and wore her name emblazoned on the back of their running tops.
This year set a new Guinness World Record for the number of finishers, as 56,640 runners crossed the line on a beautifully sunny Spring day. London was looking its very best, and spirits and encouragement were at an all-time high, at the world’s largest, annual one-day fundraising event, with more than £1.3 billion pounds raised since 1981, all for charity.