Dennis Piedra

Canon Collins Trust's London Marathon team (2025)

Fundraising for Canon Collins Trust
£302
raised of £300 target
Event: London Marathon 2025, on 27 April 2025 Start fundraising for this event
Support our brave Marathon runners who raise vital funds for worthy scholars chosen by the Canon Collins Trust, whose only barrier to higher education and a rightful place in society is financial.

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I've completed 21 Marathons around the world. NYC 16 times, Boston, Vegas, Chicago, Berlin and Disney. I'm shooting for London in 2025 but i need your HELP.

The London Marathon helps to raise vital funds for worthy scholars whose only barrier to higher education and a rightful place in society is financial.

Through the Canon Collins Trust's scholarship program, these extraordinary leaders of tomorrow are often the first in their families to get a degree.

This work began in 1981 when Apartheid divided South Africa and Namibia, leaving black Africans living in poverty and servitude. Today, even though Apartheid has officially ended, there are numerous injustices remaining.

The Canon Collins Trust is committed to fighting such injustices by supporting socially engaged postgraduate study at South African universities, because it is at this level that scholars can effect change in society. Mandela himself was one such Canon Collins scholar who has left an undeniable mark on this world.

Please support our brave runners who are playing their part towards meaningful, generational change!

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About the campaign

Support our brave Marathon runners who raise vital funds for worthy scholars chosen by the Canon Collins Trust, whose only barrier to higher education and a rightful place in society is financial.

About the charity

Canon Collins Trust

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We were founded in 1981 to assist southern African political refugees in the UK to gain the education denied them under the apartheid system. Today we support the education of southern African people and organisations, so that they can continue to build open and just societies in southern Africa.

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£301.49
+ £5.00 Gift Aid
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£301.49
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