100 Miles in May

When you've reached £10 in fundraising, we'll post your T-shirt. Make sure you've provided your address details by logging into your fundraising page and updating the 'My Account' section. We'll be posting T-shirts weekly from week commencing 7th April 2025.

Under 18s are welcome, although you have to be over 14 to join the Facebook group. If you are under 14 and want to take part, please ask your parent or guardian to join the group on your behalf.

We have a handy printable tracker in the resources section of our event page, you can also connect your fitness tracker to your fundraising page. You can keep track of your miles however you like, have a chat with other fundraisers in the Facebook group and see how they're recording theirs.

You can either connect your Strava or FitBit to your profile page during the sign-up process, or if you don't have either of these there is an option to add your miles manually.

We recommend using Strava - it's free and easy to join and you can also join our Team Combat Stress Strava group.

Follow these steps to track your miles automatically:

1. Download the Fitbit, Strava or MapMyFitness app and set up your account

2. Log into your 100 Miles in May fundraising page

3. Under the heading 'edit my page' you should see the option to connect a fitness tracker

4. Follow the prompts to connect your account

5. At the start of your next walk, select 'start your workout' in the app on your phone. At the end of your walk, select 'save your workout' - your distance will be published to the tally on your page the following day.

Of course you can! We'd like you to try and complete your miles by 31st May, but you can start whenever suits you. Please be aware that our distance data will re-set on 1st May, so that everyone starts together. If you've started early and you need this data saved, please inform the challenges team and we can arrange this for you - challenges@combatstress.org.uk. 

Share, share share! Share your progress, share your photos, but most importantly share your fundraising page. We also have handy pre-written social media posts and emails to make sharing your fundraising page simple. The more you share, the more people will see it and the quicker you'll reach your fundraising goal! People often need reminding 2 or 3 times before making a donation, so don't be afraid to keep sharing.

To share a photo or video on the group, click on 'write something' to type your message, there will also be an icon of a photo, click on that and you'll be able to select a photo from your library to include. We absolutely love to hear how you're all getting on, so please do share, share away in the group!

Share your fundraising page with them and they can use the donate button to show their support.

When you register for this event, a Facebook fundraiser and a regular fundraising page are created for you. If your friends or family aren't able to donate hrough Facebook, they can make a donation through your regular fundraising page or through the donate button on our web page.

We have some fantastic challenge T-shirts for this event, once you've raised £10 and provided your address details, we'll post yours.

No, we trust you! You don't need to send us evidence to prove you've completed the challenge. We do recommend that you update your Facebook supporters and post on your social media accounts where you are with the challenge, as your friends and family will want to know how you're getting on. Use the blog on your fundraising page, there's a handy button to share the post to Facebook too. There are progress badges available in the resources section of our event page. We recommend sharing photos and videos of you walking and please also share them with the group, as we'd love to see as many of your pictures and films as possible.

We'd prefer you to raise money online with Facebook or your regular fundraising page, but if that's not possible, our sponsorship form is available from the resources section on our website, or by emailing challenges@combatstress.org.uk. 

You can pay your offline donations into our bank account: Combat Stress / 60-00-01 / 00100013. Please use your surname and 100MilesinMay as the reference and let us know you've made the payment by emailing challenges@combatstress.org.uk.

Please remember to post your sponsorship form, with a note stating your name and challenge to:

Combat Stress

Fundraising Departments

Tyrwhitt House

Oaklawn Road

Leatherhead

Surrey

KT22 0BX

If you would prefer to pay by cheque, please include that with your sponsorship form and mail it to the address above.

Or you can call the office on 01372 587 171 to make a donation over the phone between 9.30am and 3pm Monday to Friday.

Please email your question to challenges@combatstress.org.uk or give us a call on 01372 587 140, we're always happy to help.