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Home > How to help > Fundraise > TCS Sydney Marathon 2025 FAQs
Find out everything you need to know about signing up for the TCS Sydney Marathon 2025 with Team Breakthrough T1D.
In 2025, the event date is Sunday 31 August.
Please complete our TCS Sydney Marathon application form. We will endeavour to come back to you with the outcome of your application within two weeks.
Once all the places have been allocated, we will operate a waiting list.
Places will be awarded based on the merit of each individual application.
Once you have been allocated one of our charity places, you will be required to pay a non-refundable £100 registration fee to secure this.
Our minimum sponsorship requirement is £2,500. Please note that neither the registration fee nor Gift Aid count towards this target.
For runners with ballot places, we do not set a minimum and just ask you to raise as much as you can.
Visit the official TCS Sydney Marathon website to read more about how you can apply for a place in their general ballot.
Well done! If you’d like to use your ballot place to raise money for Breakthrough T1D, that would be amazing. Please complete our Sydney Marathon application form, making sure you select the “I have a ballot place” option on question 1.
If you have already registered for one of our charity places and paid your registration fee, but then discover you have a ballot place, you can put that money towards your fundraising.
As a ballot place runner, you will receive the same level of support as our charity place runners, just without the set fundraising target.
We’re very sorry about this. You should have received either an email confirming your place, or one about going on our waiting list.
Please check your spam folder as the emails can sometimes end up there. If not, then please contact events@breakthrought1d.org.uk with the date you applied and we can look into this for you.
Running tops are offered to all Breakthrough T1D runners (charity place or ballot place) who raise £100 or more in sponsorship. You will have a choice of a running vest or a tech T-shirt (subject to availability)
Tops will be sent out two to three months ahead of the event, but individuals can request this earlier if they have hit this milestone.
The best way to get started is by setting up an online fundraising page, so your family and friends can sponsor you easily and securely.
When you complete the official race entry console, you will automatically be set up with a JustGiving page, as they are the official fundraising platform provider for the TCS Sydney Marathon. Donating through JustGiving is simple, quick and secure, with all donations coming straight to Breakthrough T1D.
We have lots of downloadable fundraising materials available, including sponsorship forms, bunting, fundraising guides and more.
We also have selected materials available to be sent via post, such as collection boxes, T-shirts and balloons. To order these, email events@breakthrought1d.org.uk.
The final deadline for raising funds is four weeks after the event (Sunday 28 September 2025).
You can pay this in the following ways:
When paying donations directly to Breakthrough T1D, please always make sure you reference your name and the Sydney Marathon 2025. This is so we can recognise the donation and put it against your fundraising.
It is very important that all charity place runners raise their minimum fundraising target of £2,500. As a charity, Breakthrough T1D pays for places and other costs associated with running this event. We need to ensure that not only are these costs covered, but that enough money can be allocated to Breakthrough T1D’s core aims of funding vital type 1 diabetes research and supporting those in the type 1 community. This is why we ask all runners to detail their fundraising plans in their application forms.
We will do everything we can to support you with your fundraising. You will not be liable for making up the difference personally (although some do choose to do this), but we would ask that you get in touch with us as early as possible. Our team can discuss other fundraising ideas with you and help you reach this target, or we can arrange for the deadline to be extended if you know the money is on its way a little later (ie, via company matched funding etc).
In some cases, where the amount raised is way under target and we do not feel sufficient efforts are being made to raise funds, we may remove you from the event. This will be at the discretion of Breakthrough T1D.
We definitely recommend joining our wonderful Team Breakthrough T1D Facebook group where you can post updates, ask questions and get general support from our amazing T1D community.
As with the other World Marathon Majors, it is likely that you will need to attend the official event Expo in the days leading up to TCS Sydney Marathon in order to collect your race number and pack.
Details of this are still TBC, but you will be kept up to date by our Events Team. When booking your travel, please factor in that you may need to be in Sydney a couple of days prior to race day.
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