The London Marathon last year raised £63m, the highest fundraising total since 2019, which was the last event to be staged ahead of the Covid pandemic.

The latest figures for 2023’s event have been published by organisers ahead of this year’s London Marathon, which takes place on Sunday April 21.

This brings the total raised for charities by the London Marathon to more than £1.2bn since it launched in 1981.

“It is a phenomenal total and we salute every single person who has contributed to this,” said London Marathon event director Hugh Brasher.

The event’s 2023 Charity of the Year raised more than £2.7m from the event.

“I’m so proud that together, our incredible TCS London Marathon runners, partners and supporters raised over £2.7million to help build the new Children’s Cancer Centre, drive transformation in children’s cancer care and help save more lives,” said GOSH Charity director of fundraising Liz Tait.

Chester Mojay-Sinclare, who is the founder and chief executive of the event’s official online fundraising partner Enthuse, said: “The amount raised is an amazing achievement by all of the participants and good causes involved.”

He added that so far for the 2024 event "we’ve seen over £20 million raised on our platform already - an increase of more than 60% on this time last year".

The official fundraising total for the 2023 TCS London Marathon was £63 MILLION!

Thank you to all of our runners who raised money for a wide range of fantastic causes.

Let's raise even more money for 2024!

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— TCS London Marathon (@LondonMarathon) April 14, 2024

Figures for 2024 by JustGiving show that £30m has been donated by 18,000 fundraisers so far through the fundraising platform.

“This is 20% more than the amount raised by fundraisers on the platform this time last year,” it said.

JustGiving president and general manager Pascale Harvie said: “Every year I’m amazed by the commitment shown by thousands of dedicated individuals fundraising for this incredible event.

“An astonishing amount of money has already been raised for almost 1700 charities on JustGiving and we expect this to continue to rise in the run up to race day.”

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