My Story

As a GB Climbing Coach, I've witnessed first hand the amazing impact Sports Aid can have for young athletes. This is my opportunity to further support our ever growing talent and help even more young people achieve their climbing aspirations. This is also a cause close to home, coming from a poor background personally and wanting to achieve as a young kid, but more often than not coming up against financial barriers out of a young person's control. Hopefully my small contribution will help make a difference to at least one young athlete.

The London Marathon has become an annual, inspiring and colourful fixture in the world’s sporting calendar since the inaugural race on 29 March 1981: a celebration of fun, fundraising and fancy dress.

Over the years more than a million people have completed the 26.2-mile course – which runs from Blackheath to The Mall, with a spectacular finish in front of Buckingham Palace, showcasing the very best that the capital city has to offer.

What’s more, these participants have raised over a billion pounds for charity and there have been countless amazing tales of human achievement throughout the event’s history – living up to its aim of helping participants ‘to have fun, and provide some happiness and sense of achievement in a troubled world’.