RMHC Hong Kong is excited to be a charity partner of Standard Chartered HK Marathon 2025, offering our donors the chance to participate in the Standard Chartered HK Marathon 2025:Together we run, support ill children to recovery path with up to 70 quotas for charity use.
You are invited to donate a designated donation generously and you will have the opportunity to sign up as a charity runner to provide a “home away from home” temporary accommodation for ill children and their families. allowing them to stay close to medical resources.
This support ensures that children battling illness can be with their loved ones, receiving care and comfort on their road to recovery.
Marathon date: February 9, 2025 (Sunday)
Registration Procedure:
- Submit your registration and make the specified charitable donation through this webpage based on your preferred event category by 11:59 PM on 6 Nov 2024.
- A lucky draw will be conducted on 7 Nov 2024 to select a total of 70 eligible participants. Each eligible participant will receive one entry spot and will be notified via email on 8 Nov 2024.
- The email will include the official registration link from the event organizer, Hong Kong Association of Athletics Affiliates Ltd. Selected charity runners must complete their registration by 11:59 p.m. on 29 Nov 2024, so that the organizers can make subsequent arrangements for the event. Failure to complete the registration by the deadline will be considered a forfeiture of participation.
- Marathon event categories and donation amounts are as follows:
5. The organizer will send an email in mid-December 2024 to confirm the registration of each charity runner.
6. The organizer will send a “Runner Packet Collection Notification” email to each runner in early January 2025.
Selected charity runners winners will receive:
- One quota for Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon 2025 (10km/half marathon/full marathon).
- RMHC’s Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon Charity Plan 2025 Certificate (presented by RMHC Hong Kong).
- A cheering pack specially prepared by RMHC Hong Kong for charity runners (including commemorative T-shirts, water bottles and other exquisite souvenirs).
- Set up your fundraising website (Host a Fundraiser) to further raise funds for RMHC Hong Kong from your friends through this marathon: https://www.rmhchk.org.hk/
- One ticket to participate in the “Race Preparation Workshop” specially designed for charity runners by RMHC Hong Kong. The workshop will be held in January 2025. Details will be announced later.
Note:
- This is registered as a charity donation event. Regardless of whether the donor is selected or qualified for the event, all donations are non-refundable.
- After registering on RMHC’s donation website, charity runners must go through a lucky draw and formally submit their registration on the organizer’s website. Only after receiving a confirmation notice from the organizer will they be eligible to participate in the race.
- Please ensure that all contact information is correct and valid in order to receive relevant notifications from RMHC Hong Kong and the event organizer for future communication purpose..
- Participants in the full marathon category must be 20 years old or above in 2025 (based on birth year). Participants must be 16 years old (based on birth year) in 2025 to participate in the half marathon and 10km events.
- Participants in the full marathon category must successfully complete at least one race (distance of 10 kilometers or more) in the Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon or any local/overseas event from 1 Jan
2023 to 31 Jul 2024. Submit proof when registering.
- The Hong Kong Association of Athletics Affiliates Limited (the “Organizer”) reserves the right to verify the age of participants before, during and after the event.
- Charity runners without confirmed registration will not be allowed to participate in the event; repeated registrations will also be rejected without prior notice.