Edinburgh Marathon Festival

24 May 2025 to 25 May 2025 | Edinburgh, Scotland

The Edinburgh Marathon Festival is Scotland’s largest running festival! The flat course is suitable for both novices and experienced runners, and with many race distances from 5km to full marathon to choose from over the two days, as well as events for juniors, there really is something for everyone. Join us for a weekend of sport at this iconic festival of running!

The Edinburgh Marathon Festival will be held in May with the following events on each day:

Saturday 24th May 2025:

EMF 10K

EMF 5K

Registrations for these distances will be live soon

Sunday 25th May 2025:

Edinburgh Marathon

Edinburgh Half Marathon

Charity Places

We have charity places in the full marathon and half marathon distances! 

We kindly ask all our charity place runners to pay a registration fee and pledge to raise a minimum amount in sponsorship, all details are below:

Half Marathon
Registration fee: £20
Fundraising Pledge: £300

Full Marathon
Registration Fee: £30
Fundraising Pledge: £500

Own Places

Already secured a place in the event from the event organisers? Fantastic news! Let us know by emailing our friendly Supporter Engagement team at fundraising@crohnsandcolitis.org.uk, we’d love to have you as part of our team!

You will have access to all the same benefits as our charity place runners but can set your own fundraising pledge.


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