by Joe Dale

NewsApril 29, 20190 comments

The London Marathon 2019

What a year it’s been for Calvert Trust Exmoor and the Virgin London Marathon!

On the 28th April 2019, 6 runners tackled the 26.2 miles on behalf of Calvert Trust Exmoor. Thanks to their fund-raising effort, £9000 has been raised. Wow!

A massive thanks to Jo, Nicholas, Jessica, David, Brandon, Colin for doing their absolute best in both the build-up to the big day and during the race itself.

The up to date 2019 fundraising total can be found here, where any additional donations are welcome: https://bit.ly/2GKS3vn

Daisy Layland, our events and corporate fundraiser, was at the race supporting the team. Here’s Jess, from Nationwide in Barnstaple, ready to go in the hotel room beforehand…

Then as Daisy waited for the runners on the side of the course, a race close to our hearts whizzed past; the wheelchairs.

Finally, the first glimpse of a Calvert Trust Exmoor fundraiser. Here are David and Jo running past with a cheeky wave and lots of enthusiasm which is great to see…

At the end of the race, it was time to meet up with everyone who took part on behalf of the three Calvert Trust centres…

Jess and the Nationwide branch in Barnstaple put on grand fund-raising events, from running on treadmills to Bingo nights to cake sales – raising £1400 for Calvert Trust Exmoor. Here’s our Jess again, holding her much deserved medal after crossing the finishing line…

Plus Jo celebrating with hers after doing everyone proud. She raised over £2000 via our Justgiving page, which is fantastic…

Colin, who entered through a Ballot place, decided to fundraise for the charity and trained by running around our reservoir. Like all our fundraisers, for any event, every penny counts and goes towards giving our disabled guests life-changing holidays. Thank you, Colin, for choosing us to give your donations to Calvert Trust Exmoor…

And finally, we have Nick from Handlesbanken Barnstaple, also showing off his well-deserved medal. Nick managed to fund-raise over £2000 and we can’t thank him enough…

Jess had the following to say about the experience…

“This is the first time I have got really involved with charity work and supporting Calvert Trust Exmoor has been such an amazing and rewarding experience. The support that Daisy has given me with my fundraising for the London Marathon has been incredible and I would just like to say thank you to Daisy and her team for this. I have been invited up to the centre a few times and I can really see where the money that has been raised is needed and how important it is that we show our local centre as much support as we can. Running the London Marathon has been one of the best experience I have ever done and the hard work has been worth it for this amazing charity”

Whilst Jo would like to say…

“It was such a privilege to run the London Marathon for a fantastic local charity, seeing the amazing work they do really inspired me to put my heart and soul into training and fundraising. The support from Daisy was lovely, she came to all our events and kept us updated with news about the marathon.”

Daisy Layland is full of positive words for our runners…

“It was brilliant to work alongside such dedicated individuals. Fundraising didn’t come naturally to everyone yet all of the runners put so much enthusiasm into their fundraising and made an amazing amount of money for the charity. Each runner made myself and the charity so proud and I had tears in my eyes when I saw you all run by. Roll on 2020.”

A big WELL DONE to everyone who took part, from all three Calvert Trust centres.

2020 London Marathon Entries

We’re going to do it all over again in 2020 and have already received enquiries from those looking to run on behalf of Calvert Trust Exmoor.

If you wish to run the London Marathon in 2020, then do it to fund-raise for us, where the money you raise will go directly to enabling us to provide activities holidays for those with physical, sensory, learning and behavioural disabilities. Donations help those who usually miss out on life-inspiring moments achieve things they never dreamed possible.

For details, email the fundraising team at fundraising@calvert-trust.org.uk for details. Or visit our Support Us and Fundraising For Us pages. Many thanks.