About us
We are a small, independent foundation that turns endurance challenges into long-term funding for grassroots, locally led organisations around the world, and we show you the impact your money makes.
Our story
Most of the time you donate, the receipt arrives and the story ends. The Impact Marathon Foundation exists to make sure that is where the story starts.
We fund grassroots, locally led organisations in countries including Jordan, Nepal, Malawi, Kenya, Guatemala, Scotland and Rwanda. Our partners are already doing the hard work in their communities – from tackling burns violence and gender inequality, to protecting fragile landscapes and building climate-resilient livelihoods. Our role is to back them with serious, long-term funding and a global community that genuinely cares.
That funding is raised through endurance challenges and Impact Marathon events, where runners and supporters commit to something bigger than a finish line. As far as we know, we are the only team in the world that both designs these challenges and stewards the funding on the ground – walking the project sites, listening to local leaders, and staying with the work long after the race banners come down.
Development is rarely tidy. Crops fail. Storms hit. Volcanoes erupt. Plans change. When there are setbacks, we do not quietly move on to the next headline. We stay with our partners, we go again, one step further, and we bring our community with us.
Since 2015, Impact Runners and supporters have raised over $1.8m for grassroots organisations. That has helped fund hundreds of life-changing surgeries for survivors of burns violence in Nepal, supported education and livelihoods programmes, and backed community-led climate projects in some of the most vulnerable places in the world.
Our promise is simple: if you choose to fundraise or donate through the Impact Marathon Foundation, you will be connected to real people and real projects. You will see where your money goes, hear honest updates when progress is fast and when it is slow, and know that your challenge is building something that lasts far beyond race day.
