FUNDRAISING IDEAS

Fundraising ideas for fitness and physical challenges

Our best tips on how to make the biggest impact possible with your fundraising.

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Are you raising money by running, walking, swimming, cycling, or something active?

Here are some creative ways you can maximise your fundraising.

Fitness fundraising ideas

Make a playlist and accept song suggestions for every donation

Love music during your challenge or training sessions? We do too.

Get your donors involved in your fitness challenge by letting them suggest a song for your playlist each time they donate. Just a warning: while someone might add “We Are The Champions” to hype you up, you may also be required to listen through “Crazy Frog” or “Barbie Girl”!

Let your highest donor have the final say

Raise the stakes even higher. Ask your friends to suggest a dare for you when they donate…and the one with the highest donation amount wins! Dares might include what you’ll wear on race day, how you’ll style your hair, or choosing a uniquely shaped route for one of your training runs.

Rally donors toward creative milestones

Challenge yourself by setting creative milestones during your fundraising journey. If you have a beard, propose you’ll shave it off once you raise £100. Stream yourself jumping in an ice bath at £500. Or get a tattoo at that big £1000 mark!

Put on a pre-race pizza party

Who doesn’t love carb-loading before a big race?! Use this as a perfect opportunity to get friends together, make or order some good food, and accept donations from attendance to reach your target even faster.

Rule your run club

Stage a run club, walking group, or swim meetup takeover (with permission, of course). If you’re part of a local sporting club, work with the director or leader to dedicate one of your meetups to your cause and your story. Accept voluntary donations from members to spread awareness further.

Fundraising in memory of someone?

We know many times, fundraising can be deeply personal. Here are a few special tips that may be helpful for if you’re fundraising in memory of someone you love.

Bring their photo along

Take your loved ones’ memory with you on your run, walk, ride, or trek. Pin a picture of them to your top or jersey so they’re with you from start to finish. Keep it safe in your fitness belt if you’re worried it might fall off.

Collect memories

Ask people to share a favourite memory of your loved one each time they donate. Write down all the memories and bring that list with you on race day to read when you need a big push to reach the finish line.

Create a special moment

Once you hit your fundraising target, do something extra-special in memory of your loved one, perhaps something important to them or that’d make them laugh. For example, you might eat an entire bowl of your nan’s favourite sherry trifle at the finish line.

SPREAD THE WORD

How to share your Fundraising Page

Share your page online and in person to raise more money. Here are a few of our favourite sharing tips.

Share your page link

Sharing is a proven way to raise more money, and you’ve got 15+ ways to share right from your Fundraising Page. Fundraisers like you raise an average of £62 for every click on a shared link!

Share your QR code

Get your page’s QR code just by adding ‘/qrcode/’ at the end of your page’s URL! Then add it as your phone’s wallpaper or print it on a poster to make it super fast for people to get to your page.

Print your poster

Easily transform your Fundraising Page into a beautiful, printed poster, pre-designed with your page’s details, images, fundraising target, and more. Print yours from the Share button on your page.

TELL YOUR STORY

How to talk about your fundraising

Here are a few of the best ways to tell friends and family about why you’re raising money for charity.

Share your activity and your “why”

Share the reason this charity and its mission means a lot to you.

Get ready, because I’m [activity] on [date]! As part of my challenge, I’m fundraising for [Charity Name] because [why this cause is important to you]. The work they do is incredible: they [charity’s mission]. Please donate to my page if you can: [your JustGiving fundraising page URL].

Motivate with milestones

Share your progress by including important fundraising milestones.

I’m just [amount] away from reaching [percentage] of my fundraising target! When I get there, I’ll [a fun challenge you will commit to if you reach your target]: [your JustGiving fundraising page URL].

Start a countdown

Count down to your big day to get people excited to give.

Ahhhh, the countdown has started! I’m just [amount of time] away from my big [challenge type] challenge for [Charity Name]. There’s still time to donate, and every penny counts! [your JustGiving fundraising page URL]

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