# 2016 London Marathon breaks fundraising records

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2016/09/16/2016-london-marathon-breaks-fundraising-records/
- Published: 2016-09-16T09:00:22+01:00
- Author: Melanie May

**The [Virgin Money London Marathon](https://www.virginmoneylondonmarathon.com/)
raised £59.4 million for charity this year, setting a new world record for an annual
single day charity fundraising event for the tenth year running.**

This year’s race raised more than £5m more than 2015’s £54.1m total, taking the 
overall total raised since the inaugural 1981 race to more than £830m. Donations
given through fundraising partner Virgin Money Giving also broke previous totals,
at £26m including Gift Aid.

As well as setting a new record for money raised, the 2016 Marathon also saw a record
number of finishers, with 39,140 crossing the finishing line, and Shannon Foudy,
a police officer from Hemel Hempstead, becoming the millionth finisher in the history
of the event.

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The Marathon’s 2016 Charity of the Year, the [NSPCC](http://www.nspcc.org.uk/), 
raised more than £2m through its runners, which will go to support its [Childline](https://www.childline.org.uk/)
service.

Peter Wanless, CEO of the NSPCC, said:

> “The money raised is going towards the project to transform our Childline service.
> We can currently only answer three out of four children who contact us and the
> money raised by our incredible marathon runners could pay for our trained volunteer
> counsellors to answer 500,000 children’s calls for help to Childline.”

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