# Virgin Unite offers London Marathon places to 100 small youth charities

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2010/09/10/virgin-unite-offers-london-marathon-places-100-small-youth-charities/
- Published: 2010-09-10T11:07:23+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Virgin Unite is planning to give a London Marathon place and runner to 100 small
youth charities that have not previously had access to a Gold or Silver bond running
place at this major fundraising event. The selected charities will receive both 
a marathon place and a ‘marathon runner’ from among Virgin group company employees
to run the marathon and help raise money for their designated charity.

Virgin Unite hope that the initiative, in partnership with the FSI, the small charity
that aims to help develop other small charities, will raise £1 million, or £10,000
per charity.

Virgin Unite are looking for entrepreneurial charities who will support their runner
and help them develop and manage a fundraising campaign to raise the £10,000. The
runner will bring the backing of the Virgin business he or she works for, but the
charity also needs to bring contacts and lots of enthusiasm and resource to make
that target.

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The are no rules about how much turnover your charity makes in a year as long as
long as it is ’small’. Applicants do however have to be UK registered and be willing
to set up a Virgin Money Giving page.

To apply for this programme, you need to be registered on the FSI community. Once
you’ve joined, please send an email with Virgin Unite in the heading (within the
community) to Kim Sutton together with the following details:

charity name

registered charity number

geographical location and remit

focus and activities

contact name, position

Tel number

Email address

If you meet the criteria, the FSI will put your application forward to Virgin Unite
who will contact the successful charities after 20 September.

www.thefsi.org

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