The World Marathon Majors Charity Challenge…Boston, London, Berlin, Chicago and New York

Please help us. Ben Livermore and Martin Frankum are this year running the 5 Major Marathons to raise, we hope, up to £50,000 for children’s charities and we need your support.

Any donation or sponsorship no matter how large or small will help us to achieve this goal. The charities we have chosen are listed in the charities section of this website. For the biggest donators we will be adding their logo to our running vests and a link or logo onto this website as a way of saying thank you for sponsoring us. Given that running the 5 Majors in one year is a challenge which has not been undertaken by more than a handful of people, we hope that the challenge will attract some media attention not to mention the on course spectators which account for over 5 million people!

This website is designed to inform you of the challenge that we face, the charities we hope to help, the amount raised so far and a detailed account of how we progress throughout the year both in training and the ups and downs of running the marathons. If we share the experience with you we hope to be able to share some of the pain!

We really need your help and we really appreciate you taking the time to read this website and thank you in advance for donating and sponsoring us

AMOUNT RAISED SO FAR - £20,700

How to Sponsor or donate

Option 1

Please visit http://www.justgiving.com/5in1year to sponsor us. Donating is easy and secure and should take no longer than a couple minutes to do. We will get an extra 28% from the taxman "Gift Aid" from every donation by UK taxpayers as well!

Option 2

You can donate via cheque. Just send your cheque to;

Martin Frankum
Flat 1
75 Alderney Street
London, SW1V 4HF

Option 3

Donate via Bank Transfer. Just email mjf@summerssolicitors.co.uk and you will be supplied with the necessary bank details to make a secure direct bank transfer.

The Challenge

To complete all 5 marathons in 2007 (actually it is 7 months but thinking of it as the calendar year makes it seem less daunting!).

So when and where will we be running in 2007?

Boston – 16th April   
Runners tracking for Boston can be found here. Just enter 19662 for Martin, 20603 for Ben and click track for race stats.

London – 22nd April (yes I know only 6 days apart plus travel – we are mad!)   

Berlin – 30th September   

Chicago – 7th October (yes I was a little surprised these were so close together as well!!)   

New York – 6th November