The Tichborne Team Marathon is Back!

After the extraordinary response, support and success of last year’s inaugural event, we have decided to go for it again! Come and join in the Tichborne Team Marathon on Sunday 27th April 2025 and help us continue to raise vital funds for the Cystic Fibrosis Trust.

After becoming the first girl with Cystic Fibrosis to run the London Marathon in 2004, Emma Stewart has undertaken a variety of physical challenges over the past 20 years in aid of the CF Trust, the latest of which was organising the first ever Tichborne Team Marathon in 2024. This local event raised a remarkable £48,000 last year and can be described as 'a fun off road team running event open to all'. The focus of the whole run is very much on fun and fundraising rather than serious PBs!

Cystic Fibrosis is the UKs most common genetically inherited disease, which causes severe damage to the lungs, digestive system and many other organs and there is currently no cure. Emma was diagnosed with CF at birth and after surviving life saving surgery at 12 hours old, her parents were told she would not live to see her 7th birthday. The treatment of CF is currently unrecognisable to that in the 1980s and it is thanks to the advancement in medicines and treatments that she is where she is today, a mother, teacher and occasional fundraiser. However, CF is a widely complicated disease which still takes too many young lives every year. That is why it is still so important to find a cure and is why Emma has always fundraised for the CF Trust.

CF affects more than 11,000 people in the UK. One in 25 of us carries the faulty gene that causes it, usually without knowing. The Cystic Fibrosis Trust is the charity uniting people to stop Cystic Fibrosis.