The marathon has become the most successful one-day annual fundraising event in the world since its founding in 1981.
London Marathon Events announced last year that 2024 had been its most successful ever year. A total of £73.5m was raised for over 1,700 charities by fundraisers for the marathon, which is the largest ever total for a one-day fundraising event. The marathon’s official charity for the 2024 edition, Samaritans announced last year that it had raised £1.1m from the event, four times the amount that it would usually raise annually via the event. Read more on this here.