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Ballot places per charity

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postieboy Oct 2015 4:06pm, 28 Oct 2015 2828 posts	0 postieboy I've just filled out my Golden Bond registration and have inadvertently found out the charity I'm running for has got 5 places. Out of curiosity, does anyone have figures for other charities? It would be fascinating to know how much each of them is prepared to spend on VMLM places.
Doctor K Oct 2015 5:19pm, 28 Oct 2015 3653 posts	0 Doctor K Having previously been involved with the Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation they used to pay several hundred pounds for a London place. I'm not sure how they were allocated to charities but I do know that they were always over-subcribed. They offered me one for nowt once or twice but I always turned them down -mainly because I didn't want to run the thing !
FreshStart Oct 2015 5:31pm, 28 Oct 2015 2411 posts	0 FreshStart Some vague info here virginmoneylondonmarathon.com and here virginmoneylondonmarathon.com
BaronessBL Oct 2015 7:07pm, 28 Oct 2015 4707 posts	0 BaronessBL I have fairly limited experience with charity places but I think five places every year for five years is a usual deal. I think they can defer them to offer ten places at once if they wish.
♪♫ ♪♫ Synge ♪♫ ♪♫ Oct 2015 8:29pm, 28 Oct 2015 3556 posts	0 ♪♫ ♪♫ Synge ♪♫ ♪♫ I ran for Help the Hospices (now Hospice UK) in 2007 and 2008 and they certainly had several dozen runners at least. There were enough for them to put on a breakfast in a pub in Greenwich for all their runners and I seem to think (but this may be wrong) that they said that the London Marathon accounted for about half of their annual event-based fundraising income. Definitely more than five places.
postieboy Oct 2015 9:05pm, 28 Oct 2015 2829 posts	0 postieboy Depends on the size of the charity I suppose. Behemoths like Cancer Research UK and MacMillan probably have hundreds each.
Surrey Phil Oct 2015 9:29pm, 28 Oct 2015 1069 posts	0 Surrey Phil I don't know how many Golden Bond places each charity has although the link provided by FreshStart is the best one I am aware of. A Golden Bond place costs a charity about £350 a year for five years, so they always want a good return from their runners for their 'investment.' The relatively new Silver Bond places also cost the same but a charity can only claim one place every five years.

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