GetKidsGoing!

MY VIRTUAL CHALLENGE

My Virtual Challenge

It’s always good to have a challenge in your life and right now is a great time to have one!

So, why not sign up for My Virtual Challenge and join the Get Kids Going! challenge team.

It’s your Challenge… so you can do it your way.

It will help keep you fit, focused and feeling good!

What is My Virtual Challenge?

My Virtual Challenge is here to help you achieve your personal goals… by doing your own challenge of a run, walk, cycle or even creating your own challenge idea.

You can do it; when you can, however you like and where its safe for you.

You can choose your distance, time, pace and safe place. This could be your local area, home, garden or park.

All you have to do is choose when, where and how you do your challenge and when you’ve got that sorted you’re ready to get up and going!

It’s easy to sign up, get set up and get started.

So, lets do it!..

First, decide your challenge.

Set a fundraising target and share a online page with your friends and family.

Activate your JustGiving fundraising page to collect your donations and tell everyone about your challenge. You can even upload your own images and write your own daily blog!

Link to your fitness tracker, health app on your mobile, or use any other device to track your distance, hours, minutes, steps, strokes, push ups or whatever your challenge might be.

Or, if you don’t want to use a tracker or an app you can just set up your own log and manually record your activity. We don’t mind how you tell us about your achievements.

Five Great Reasons to Take Part

Stay healthy
It’s important to look after your physical and mental health even if you are inside or out. Just a little exercise every day makes an enormous difference and will strengthen your heart, tone up the muscles and lift your mood.
Achieve your personal goal
My Virtual Challenge gives you an opportunity to achieve, what might be a lifelong goal, of getting fit, losing weight, running or walking a marathon, half marathon or a 5 or 10k. Clocking up a 50/100 mile bike ride, or just doing 25 star jumps every day for a month will achieve your goal and make you feel a hundred times fitter and stronger.
The Cause - Get Kids Going!
Every donation you raise helps us support the many disabled children who need our help to enable them to play out and participate in sport. Get Kids Going! provides disabled children with sports wheelchairs and sports grants. With your help many of them can become world record holders and Paralympic champions. Help turn their dreams into reality by providing them with a sports wheelchair or sports grant.
We’ll send you your Achievement Award
We will be pleased to send you a Get Kids Going! sports shirt* and a Certificate of Achievement when you have told us you’ve completed your challenge.
Join our team Meet Up groups
Every now and again we would love you to join in our secure My Virtual Challenge meet up group. You’ll have the opportunity to meet the rest of the team, share your experiences, swap stories and let them know all about your own achievements. It’s a great way to meet the team and make new virtual friends.

FAQs

If you need more help and have any questions about My Virtual Challenge just click on the FAQs below.

FAQs

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Taking part in My Virtual Challenge is your moment to shine, feel good and support a great cause.
We look forward to welcoming you to the team.

Get Kids Going! is a national charity which gives disabled children and young people - up to the age of 26 yrs - the wonderful opportunity of participating in sport. We provide them with specially built sports' wheelchairs so they can do: athletics, marathons, tennis, skiing, rugby, sailing, boccia, basketball, sledge hockey, table tennis, fencing, shooting, archery, powerlifting and many more sports. Get Kids Going! inspires British disabled youngsters to compete in sporting events, from start to paralympic level, by also giving them sports grants to help with their; training, physiotherapy, travel, competition fees, design and development of sports' equipment etc. With your help many can become world record holders and paralympic champions!.

Our aim is to give support to all our budding paralympians in the build up to the 2021 Tokyo Summer Paralympics, the 2022 Beijing Winter Paralympics and many more such events. Like any aspiring athletes all our youngsters need long-term support, often over many years, to achieve their sporting dreams. Sadly, we are aware of cuts in funding for such youngsters from the government and other sources, and so many of our youngsters are forced to rely on friends and family for financial help. As you can imagine, this causes enormous burdens on many, already cash strapped, families and a constant worry as the cost of participating in their favourite sport is forever increasing.

There are hundreds of talented, disabled, youngsters who have the potential to participate in events throughout the UK and all over the world but receive either none or very little funding and are desperate to achieve their life-long sporting dreams. With your help, together we can turn their dreams into reality and help make them into sporting heroes!

Not only does Get Kids Going! focus on helping disabled young athletes but it also provides manual wheelchairs for children to use every day; at home, at school, and to enable them to play with their friends. These are our wonderful athletes of the future! We believe that all disabled children and young people should receive the right equipment to get them going!.

We support children with all disabilities and from all backgrounds. We take pride in ensuring that any equipment which is out grown is recycled to other children, so our supporters' valuable donations are never wasted. Many people who support Get Kids Going! feel a marvellous sense of achievement and satisfaction. They see that even the smallest donation makes an amazing difference! Get Kids Going! gives disabled children and young people the chance of a life time, freedom, and many wonderful opportunities that you and I take for granted. Opportunities they may never have without you and the support of Get Kids Going! No other charity in the UK focuses on helping disabled children and young people with sport in the same way.

The cost of a bespoke sports wheelchair is about £4,000. A lightweight manual wheelchair is around £3,000. All are designed individually, and perform just like a Formula 1 Racing Car!.

The cost of a sports grant can be anything from £500 to £15,000 per year for each youngster.

In general there are over 200,000 disabled children and young people in Britain who need the help of Get Kids Going!.

Please help us turn their dreams into reality!.

Our work would not be possible if it was not for the hundreds of runners who support Get Kids Going! throughout the year by running events such as the Virgin Money London Marathon, Paris Marathon, BMW Berlin Marathon, New York City Marathon, Royal Parks Foundation Half Marathon, Paris Half Marathon, Tokyo Marathon, Great North Run, taking part in Ride London 100, L'Etape du Tour and the many other events and marathons worldwide. And also the numerous companies, trusts, schools and individuals who kindly give us such valuable donations and support. We'd like to say a big thank you to you all.