Shine Night Walk London 2024
Shine Night Walk London 2025
London, it's your moment to Shine! Join hundreds of people lighting up the city to raise money for life-saving cancer research.
Shine Night Walk London 2025
About Shine Night Walk London
From Westminster to Waterloo, Shine Night Walk is your chance to light up London’s streets and support life-saving research. Starting and finishing in Battersea Park, you’ll walk past London's famous landmarks before ending with a finish line celebration.
Choose a distance to suit your ability. Walk solo and meet friends along the way, or sign up as a group and walk together.
With Shine Night Walk you can choose to fundraise for a cancer cause close to your heart, or simply where the need is greatest.
What you get for your entry fee
Shine Night Walk T-shirt
Fundraising and training support
Signposted route, water stations and facilities
A finisher’s medal
The routes
From Westminster Abbey to the London Eye, your Shine Night Walk will guide you past some of London's most iconic landmarks. Watch this space for our 2025 map.
10k route
Depending on your pace, the 10k route will take between 1.5 - 3 hours
Half marathon route
Depending on your pace, the half marathon route will take between 4.7 - 7 hours
Full marathon route
Depending on your pace, the full marathon route will take between 9-14 hours
How your support makes a difference
Fund the research that matters to you
When you sign up to Shine Night Walk you can pick which research area you want to support, from bowel cancer to children’s cancers or simply where the need is greatest.
Over the last 40 years our work has helped double breast cancer survival, supported the development of radiotherapy and played a role in developing 8 of the world’s top 10 cancer drugs.
Nearly 1 in 2 of us will get cancer in our lifetime*, but your fundraising can make a difference.
How fundraising helps London
London is an exciting hub of research activity and home to two of our research centres, the Convergence Science Centre and the City of London Centre.
Research happening here right now includes:
- Understanding how lung cancer evolves to help personalise treatment.
- Using artificial intelligence to improve therapy for sarcoma.
- Trialling aspirin as a cancer treatment.
- Investigating how kidney cancers evolve.
- Finding the right treatment combination for prostate cancer.
We're with you every step of the way
Fundraising support
We’re here to help you kickstart your fundraising and smash your target. We recommend a fundraising goal of £150 for 10K walkers and £260 for half and full marathon walkers, but no matter how much you raise, your fundraising powers our progress.
Training support
Shine Night Walk isn’t about being the first across the finish line, but it’s important to be prepared. Whether you’re planning to power walk, stride or stroll, find out how long each distance will take and get your training plan.
Community support
Shine Night Walk is about all of us coming together to beat cancer. But you don’t need to wait until the walk! After signing up you’ll receive a link to join the official Shine Night Walk Facebook group, where you can share support, fundraising ideas and training tips with your fellow walkers.
Other Shine Night Walk 10K locations
Thinking of exploring another city? Shine Night Walk takes place across the country, with 16 locations to choose from.
Volunteer at Shine Night Walk
Want to be part of the team who make it all happen? Visit our volunteering page to find out more about our volunteering opportunities.
Visit the Shine Night Walk shop
From vibrant headbands to glow in the dark tattoos, the Shine Night Walk shop has all you need to get ready for the night.
*cruk.org/lifetimerisk