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Total raised so far

44%

£440.00 of £1,000 target +£110.00 Gift Aid See breakdown

Recent donations

3 weeks ago

Deirdre

£20.00 + £5.00 Gift Aid

Run Martin Run! Not long to go now until the big event.

3 weeks ago

John

£10.00 + £2.50 Gift Aid

Let's hope you avoid the Flat Foot Floogie (with a Floy Floy) :-)

1 month ago

Maria

£50.00 + £12.50 Gift Aid

Good Luck Martin!

1 month ago

Anonymous

£50.00 + £12.50 Gift Aid

Go for it! (Anything is possible for an accordionist!)

1 month ago

Nadia Rossignoli Syed

£20.00 + £5.00 Gift Aid

Big ‘Project Awesome’ Booms Martin - best of luck for April!

1 month ago

Janette Steel

£50.00 + £12.50 Gift Aid

This is a tremendous effort many thanks

1 month ago

Angela

£10.00 + £2.50 Gift Aid

Good Luck!

2 months ago

Lucy Summers

£20.00 + £5.00 Gift Aid

You've got this Martin x

2 months ago

Jon Parker

£50.00 + £12.50 Gift Aid

2 months ago

christa harris

£50.00 + £12.50 Gift Aid

Wow!! Run run my big beautiful Brother!!

About us

The Friends Of Chelsea Children's Hospital School (Charity No 1060218) support the advancement of a broad education for children and young people admitted to Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, The Royal Brompton Hospital, St. Mary's Hospital, Collingham Child and Family Unit, The Lavender Walk Adolescent Mental Health Unit, and any children and young people in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea who are unable to attend school due to medical or mental health problems.

Charity number: 1060218

Please sponsor our music teacher, Martin, who is running the London Marathon to help Sick Children in Hospital

Martin will be running the London Marathon on Sunday 23rd April to help raise money for FCCHS - The Friends of Chelsea Children’s Hospital School.

FCCHS supports chronically ill children by keeping the Hospital School open during the twelve weeks of school holidays, so that children in hospital can have access to stimulating educational events and activities all year round.

FCCHS also provides a youth club in the evenings for children while they are in hospital.

To find out more about the work of FCCHS please visit our school website www.cchs.org.uk

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Many thanks, we are really grateful for your support!


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Our updates

yesterday

Three days of no running, thanks to a nasty cold, gives me time to consider how I got here — four weeks out from my first ever marathon!

Each week on the marathon training I go for one long run by myself, and then three or four shorter runs and meetups , which are all about community.

Whether it's a session on the track with Adidas Runners, the weekly 6.30am popup fitness bootcamps with Project Awesome, an evening social run through the streets of east London with Run Dem Crew, where it all started ten years ago with the regular Saturday morning 5k parkrun or my weekly Friday at 7am, come rain or shine run, with my friend Josephine — these are the people and communities that have brought me to believing that what once seemed impossible, might just actually be possible.

And while I know that ultimately those 26 miles on April 23rd are down to me, I wouldn't be here now without the encouragement and inspiration from all these people and communities — a huge thank you to each and every one of you.

This week's long run was a 22km/13 mile loop, over Tower Bridge, along the north bank of the Thames, crossing over into Battersea Park and then back along the south bank.

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1 week ago

This week's long run was a 31km/19mile clockwise loop from Tower Bridge, past Canary Wharf, the Royal Docks, through the lonely Woolwich foot tunnel and then back by Greenwich and home along the river. My pace was a bit slower as I was distracted by all the photo opportunities!

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1 week ago

This week's long run was from the the west (Gunnersbury) 20km/12miles alongside the river, and part of my usual cycle to work route. I’m following Hal Higdon’s novice marathon training plan which so far I’ve managed to stick to. Hal reckons that his plan has helped more than a half million runners reach the finish line of a 26 mile 385 yard race, so I've put my faith in Hal's plan - six weeks to go!!

Thank you to the latest sponsors John and Deirdre. Also thanks to Jan who has pledged a Euro for each kilometre of the marathon distance!

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3 weeks ago

I caught the train to Erith and ran back alongside the river for my longest #marathontraining run so far, 28km/17miles. The first half was wonderfully bleak with far too many photographic possibilities. After 20k I was feeling less inclined to marvel at the scenery, so I put my running playlist on and pushed on with thoughts of the hot bath awaiting me.

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4 weeks ago

Huge thank you to Maria, Anonymous and Nadia for all sponsoring me :)

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