Long Running Maritime Charity

Opportunities to run with Paula Radcliffe and simultaneously support seafarers and their families are still available to participants in next springs Flora London Marathon . Those running and raising sponsorship on behalf of the maritime charity King Georges Fund for Sailors (KGFS) will benefit sailors who served in WWII, orphaned children and injured fishermen. KGFS has worked with some 200 UK maritime related charities, targeting financial support to where it is needed most. The charity is relaunching itself under the new name Seafarers UK , effective 1 January 2005.