# Healthcare-related causes most popular among runners, poll reveals

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2019/04/25/healthcare-related-causes-most-popular-among-runners-poll-reveals/
- Published: 2019-04-25T08:00:06+01:00
- Author: Melanie May

**With the London Marathon taking place this weekend, a CAF poll has revealed the
top causes runners have fundraised for over the past 12 months.**

More than half have run for healthcare-related causes, with medical research the
most popular category at 27%, followed by hospitals and hospices, and physical and
mental healthcare at 15% each.

Causes related to children and young people were the next in line, with 14%, followed
by homeless people, housing and refuge centres (UK) at 9%, disabled people at 8%,
and sport and recreation at 7%.

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Less popular are animal welfare, and elderly people, both at 6%, schools, colleges
and education, and ‘Other’ (including rescue services, human rights, benevolent 
funds and refugees) both at 5%, and overseas aid and disaster relief and religious
organisations at 3%.

Conservation, the environment and heritage, and arts-related causes have been chosen
by the least number of runners, with only 2% running for the former, and 1% for 
arts causes.

The poll of 113 people was carried out by YouGov on behalf of the [Charities Aid Foundation](https://www.cafonline.org/).

The 2019 [Virgin Money London Marathon](https://www.virginmoneylondonmarathon.com/)
takes place this Sunday, 28 April, with Alzheimer’s Society and Alzheimer’s Research
UK joining forces as Charity of the Year with Dementia Revolution. They are aiming
to raise £3.5m to fund research at the UK Dementia Research Institute.

Last year’s London Marathon raised a record-breaking £63.7m for charity.

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