FAQs

Yes. The date of the challenge are 1st to the 31st August during your child’s school holidays. We understand different regions have different holiday dates, so you can change the challenge dates to suit you and your children. 

Signing up is simple

1. Sign up here to request your free challenge stickers and set up your fundraiser.
2. Once you have signed up, you’ll receive your own fundraising page, which you can personalise with your child’s or children’s names if you wish.
3. Share, share, share. Make sure to tell everyone you know that you are taking on the challenge and ask them to sponsor you.
4. Get fundraising!
5. Join our Facebook Group.
6. Support your children to take on their miles during the summer school holidays, and use your stickers to track your progress.
7. Support children and young people with cancer.

You will receive a progress chart in the fundraising pack when you sign up, where the kids can use the stickers we send to track each mile and fundraising milestone throughout the challenge.

Top tip - share photos of your tracker with friends & family to show them your kid's progress and just how amazing they are.

We are here with you every step of the way to help you complete the challenge. We have a support team on hand to give advice and top tips on completing the challenge and reaching your fundraising target. Feel free to reach out in the Facebook group for some support.

However, if you aren’t able to complete the full challenge, please don’t worry, just make sure to let your sponsors know. If you need any advice or support on completing the challenge, please email virtualchallenges@younglivesvscancer.org.uk

This is the kids' challenge, their way!
We want you to take part in a way that works best for you and your children. You can increase or reduce the distance and can change the dates if they don’t work for you. Head to your fundraising page, then go to your dashboard and select 'Edit my page' to change your distance and/or fundraising target. We suggest you just let your supporters know your plans.

Absolutely! This challenge is designed especially for children to take part in. They can take on the challenge with their siblings or friends.

Parents will have to ask their kids if they are allowed to join in the fun and take part in the challenge too 😉

You must be over 18 to sign up for the challenge and set up a fundraiser on behalf of the child.

By signing up for this challenge, you confirm that you are signing up on behalf of a child/children. You must understand that you are 100% responsible for ensuring the children take on the challenge and set up the fundraiser on their behalf.

Yes, of course! The more the merrier. Just share the link to the sign up form and ask them to register. 

Yes – you can join from anywhere. Unfortunately, we aren’t able to ship our fundraising packs internationally, but you can find everything you need in the Resources tab. You will still be a vital part of Team Young Lives.

We send fundraising packs out twice a week but sometimes they can take 10-14 working days to arrive. If you pack has still not arrived please contact virtualchallenges@younglivesvscancer.org.uk

If you have any questions or queries, feel free to post in our Facebook group. Or please contact us at virtualchallenges@younglivesvscancer.org.uk

Absolutely. We want everyone to take part, whichever way works for you - you can walk, jog, run, wheel or be pushed - the choice is yours!

We want to you take part in any way you feel comfortable - maybe even take part with a friend and split the miles between you.

If you need support or want to chat through your ideas to anyone in the team, please email virtualchallenges@younglivesvscancer.org.uk and we can help!

We'll set up a fundraising page for you automatically when you sign up. This is the easiest way to collect your sponsorship. All donations come directly to Young Lives vs Cancer, so you don’t have to worry about admin or bank transfers.

You can also fundraise offline. You will receive a Young Lives vs Cancer sponsorship form in your challenge pack. This can also be found in the Resources tab. To pay this in, deposit your sponsorship into your bank account, then pay it directly to your fundraising page. Alternatively, there are handy instructions on our website on how to pay this in.

We simply ask everyone to raise as much as they can to support children and young people with cancer. The target is automatically set to £150, as people with higher targets on their pages raise the most. While there’s no commitment to reach this amount, we’d love for you to aim high. Every pound you raise makes a real difference to children and young people with cancer. 💗

Any cash donations we suggest you pay into your fundraising page yourself, so all your total will sit together.

There are handy instructions for how to pay this on the sponsorship form.  All you need to do is deposit your sponsorship into your own bank account, and then pay this directly to your fundraising page.

If you have used a sponsorship form, you can follow the instructions on the form, to send this to us so we can claim any Gift Aid.

When logged in to your fundraising page, you can click on Edit my page, and then change the fundraising target.

They will be set at £150, however, this is just a suggestion and you are more than welcome to change this to what you would like to achieve.

If you reach your target, we suggest going in and upping the target on your page. This encourages people to keep donating to help you hit your target.