Wiltshire adviser completes London Marathon raising £7,400 for charity

Funds go to Worldwide Cancer Research

Victoria McKeever
clock • 2 min read

Unividual director Lewis Baxter completed the 2017 London Marathon in 4 hours 41 minutes and raised £7,400 for Worldwide Cancer Research.

The Wilshire-based chartered financial planner ran the 2017 London Marathon for his grandmother, Valerie Fenn, who battled cancer twice in the past. Baxter (pictured), aged 29, said the marathon had always been on his bucket list. The adviser also ran the Bath half marathon last year, raising more than £5,700 for Cancer Research with three other members of Unividual, which adds up to total of £13,100 raised for charity to date. Baxter said: "I am not going to hide the fact that the London Marathon isn't easy. I don't know what more I could have done to prepare for it, I trained ha...

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