HDA fundraising: London Marathon
2010 Virgin London Marathon
If you are interested in running the 2010 Virgin London Marathon to support the HDA, the application process is now open until October 2009. For an application form, please contact Head Office on 0151 298 3298 or email info@hda.org.uk.
2009 Flora London Marathon
June 2009
Sunday 26th April 2009 saw the world famous Flora London Marathon. Ruth Sands, Sue Hill and Sue Young, all Regional Care Advisers from the HDA set up our banners and balloons at Stand H in Horseguards Parade, in preparation to greet our Marathon runners.
This year we had 4 Gold Bond winners; Matthew Ellison, Clifford Bowers, Damien Fortune and Andrew Vincent. Each runner has raised way in excess of the minimum £1000 each, plus at least 7 additional runners managed to secure their own places in the Flora London Marathon Ballot to support the HDA, including:
Shane Dempsey
Simon Mapes
Ed Connors
Michelle Summers
Gair Matthews
Julie Johnstone
Mike Lord
Our Gold Bond Runners achieved the following times:
Runner
Time
Position
Matthew Ellison
4 hours 38 minutes
15493rd
Clifford Bowers
5 hours 6 minutes
19647th
Damien Fortune
4 hours 12 minutes
10809th
Andrew Vincent
3 hours 50 minutes
6545th
We are sincerely grateful to every one of our runners for the sheer hard work they put in, both in the lead up to and during the event, but also for their tremendous efforts to raise money to support our work. The HDA are very proud of you all, thank you!
Money is still coming in from this year's Flora London Marathon, but current indications show that donations will exceed £12,000. Thank you to all of our runners and their supporters for raising so much money to support our work.
As you can see from the photographs, spirits were running high at what proved to be another very physically demanding and emotional London Marathon. This was the final year that Flora officially sponsored the event. Next year Virgin is taking over the sponsorship.
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