Royal Parks Half Marathon 2025

Sunday 12 October 2025

Great news! For the very first time, Pilgrims Hospices has places in the Royal Parks Half Marathon!

Every October, 16,000 runners take on this 13.1-mile route through London’s beautiful Royal Parks and famous streets.

You can run for us with a Pilgrims Hospices charity place, or join #TeamPilgrims with your own ballot place. Every step you take will help us care for people in east Kent living with incurable illness.

Sign up today and be part of something amazing for local hospice care! Will you join our very first team?


The Royal Parks route

The Royal Parks Half Marathon is a unique challenge event. Run on closed roads with a festival atmosphere, it’s a landmark day for both runners and supporters alike.

This stunning course threads its way through the beauty and majesty of four Royal Parks and past iconic landmarks including Buckingham Palace, the Houses of Parliament and the Royal Albert Hall. Although there are some gentle undulations it’s a generally flat course, making it fantastic for both beginners and experienced runners.

Check out the route here!


Apply to run for Pilgrims Hospices today

Pilgrims Hospices has a limited number of charity places for the Royal Parks Half Marathon on Sunday 12th October 2025. These charity places are free with a pledge to raise at least £350 sponsorship (before Gift Aid) for Pilgrims Hospices and are allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. So, make sure to apply today to avoid disappointment!


Secured a ballot place in Royal Parks?

If you have secured a place through the public ballot, we’d love for you to run in aid of Pilgrims Hospices. Every £25 raised for your Royal Parks challenge could help Pilgrims Hospices to provide an hour of specialist nursing care to a patient receiving end-of-life care in one of our inpatient units in Canterbury, Thanet or Ashford. Thank you!

Get in touch today with the Events Team today so that we can support you with your training and fundraising.


Running for hospice care!

We need your help to be there for people living with an incurable illness. By raising sponsorship for your challenge, you’re making a real difference to the lives of thousands of local people in our care each year. Every £100 raised could pay for 4 hours of skilled and compassionate nursing care for people living with a life-limiting illness; making them comfortable, bringing pain under control and enabling them to live well until the end of life. Here are just some of the ways your fundraising helps:

  • £10 could pay for a patient’s meals for the day
  • £25 could pay for an hour of specialist nursing care
  • £80 could pay for a patient’s care from our community team over a 24 hour period
  • £125 could pay for 12 sessions of a Living Well group for a patient facing a terminal illness
  • £270 could pay for all the medicine needed at all three of our inpatient units in Ashford, Canterbury and Thanet over 24 hours

Start fundraising today!


Resources

Location

London

Address information

Venue:
Hyde Park

City: London

Postcode: W2 2UH


Contact information

Email: [email protected]

Contact name: The Events Team

Phone: 01227 812609