Jump into January

Everyone! Similar to our Virtual Sparkle Night, anybody that wants to take on the challenge is able to.  Get the whole family involved to support Ashgate Hospice and take on an activity throughout January that sets you up for the New Year and is a challenge for your abilities.

Any age, however, we are asking anybody that is under the age of 17 to gain permission from their parent/guardian. 

Yes, of course, the more the merrier! Please feel free to join at any time throughout the challenge, and help us to get through the difficult months ahead.

There is no minimum sponsorship amount, but we’d encourage you to set yourself a target to add to your challenge. You will be helping to ensure that the hospice can continue to provide compassionate end of life care at a crucial time, and support the wider health system as it did last year.

All sponsorship money must be received by Ashgate Hospice by Tuesday 8th March 2022. If you have set up an online fundraising page, the sponsorship money that you have raised will automatically be sent to us, so you don’t need to do anything. If you have collected any offline sponsorship money, please pay it on online where possible or call us on 01246 567250 to pay it in over the phone. Alternatively, you can bring it into the Hospice, but please do pay it in online or over the phone where you can.

Absolutely! You’ll be able to see how you compare to your teammates and everyone else on your profile page.

To get involved, set yourself a target distance and then walk, run or cycle* it throughout January. As long as you use Strava to track your activity or log it later (don’t worry – the registration process will guide you through this!) the choice is yours.   Please note that Strava can only track distance and not steps, so any activity that you do, you must cover a distance in order for it to be logged.  

*Other activities can also be logged and included in the challenge.

Yes, if you have another preferred activity that you would like to do, providing you are going a distance and it’s a feature on Strava, you can include it in your challenge. Alternatively, you can manually add any completed activity to your page.

No, it’s free entry for this event. We just ask that you create a fundraising page when you sign up to the event, and share it with your friends, family and peers to get them sponsors coming in, to ensure that the hospice can continue to provide compassionate end of life care at a crucial time, and support the wider health system as it did last year.

Yes, that’s not a problem at all. You can manually add activities to your fundraising page instead of linking a Strava account to your profile. Please click here for more information on how to do this. If you need any support with doing with, please email events@ashgatehospice.org.uk or call us on 01246 567250.