Kelly's London Marathon Page
Kelly Descombes
My Story
About us
I am running the marathon to raise funds for Oxygen.
Oxygen provides a range of youth work projects aimed at changing the lives of marginalised, disadvantaged and isolated young people. Their key projects include one-to-one mentoring, anti knife crime intervention and work in schools and youth centres. Set up by young people in 2001, Oxygen seeks to meet young people where they are and try to understand the world from their perspective and help them overcome the challenges they face, understand their unique gifts and talents and build aspirations for the future.
Oxygen have a small team with lived experience of the issues faced by young people and a diverse network of volunteers with close links to the community and a passion to make positive change. Many of Oxygen’s staff and volunteers started out as beneficiaries of the charity. Oxygen relies on donations from supporters to continue working with vulnerable young people and making a difference.
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’.
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Target
£2,000
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Raised so far
£170
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Number of donors
1
My Story
About us
I am running the marathon to raise funds for Oxygen.
Oxygen provides a range of youth work projects aimed at changing the lives of marginalised, disadvantaged and isolated young people. Their key projects include one-to-one mentoring, anti knife crime intervention and work in schools and youth centres. Set up by young people in 2001, Oxygen seeks to meet young people where they are and try to understand the world from their perspective and help them overcome the challenges they face, understand their unique gifts and talents and build aspirations for the future.
Oxygen have a small team with lived experience of the issues faced by young people and a diverse network of volunteers with close links to the community and a passion to make positive change. Many of Oxygen’s staff and volunteers started out as beneficiaries of the charity. Oxygen relies on donations from supporters to continue working with vulnerable young people and making a difference.
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’.
