Frequently asked questions

40,000 people are diagnosed with blood cancer in the UK every year. As a community, our challenge is to complete 1km for every person diagnosed and walk the distance around the world together (40,075km)! All donations from Walk the World will fund vital blood cancer research and support for people affected by blood cancer.

Walk the World is a fundraising challenge taking place from 1st to 31st October 2026, raising money for Blood Cancer UK to fund vital blood cancer research and support for those affected.

The distance around the world is 40,075km and everyone who signs up and logs their activity will contribute to reaching this total collectively.

It’s free to take part and the challenge is completely flexible and personal to you. When you sign up you can choose the distance you want to complete in October. Whether you walk regularly every day/week, or choose one day to walk a certain distance, every contribution matters and will make a difference. You can walk on your own or with friends and family.

Along the way, we ask that you share your personal fundraising page (created when you sign up) and try to raise as much as you can to help fund our vital research into blood cancer.

No, it’s free to sign up. However, you can help us cover our costs and kickstart your fundraising by adding your first donation to your fundraising page. Simply register by clicking ‘Sign up’ and your fundraising page will be set up automatically, then choose how much you’d like to donate.

You can take part however you wish! This challenge is for everyone, whether you walk, run, skip, hop or wheel, you can help us reach our total distance around the world. Just set your personal or team challenge to suit you and update your fundraising page to let everyone know what you’ll be doing. Log your distance on your fundraising page to help reach our total.

Your personal Walk the World fundraising page was created for you when you signed up, and you can use this to track your activity. You can add activities manually (watch this handy video to see how) or link your Strava app to your page and have everything you do uploaded automatically. Only activity you record after you’ve connected your accounts will be shared automatically on your page. If you choose to use this tool, you may like to use Strava’s Privacy Zones function to hide your start/finish location.

If you have any problems, please get in touch and we can guide you through it.

As you log your fitness, your progress will be shown on your page's progress bar and the distance will be added to our team total.

Watch this video that explains how to log your fitness without using Strava.

Once you've signed up, go to walktheworld.bloodcancer.org.uk, login and click on ‘My Page’. Scroll down to ‘Latest updates’ on your fundraising page and you’ll see an option that says 'Log fitness'. Here you can manually add activities you've completed to your page. These will all be included in our team distance total.

Once you've signed up, go to walktheworld.bloodcancer.org.uk, login and click on ‘My Page’. Scroll down to ‘Latest updates’ and select ‘Connect Strava’. Login to your Strava account and your fundraising page will automatically connect.

If you’re using a tracking device (eg: a Garmin, Fitbit or Apple watch) to record your fitness, you can sync it automatically to your fundraising page through the Strava app. Download Strava from the app store, connect it to your tracking device and start recording your activity. Then link Strava to your fundraising page and your activities will automatically sync up from this point forwards.

To change your target distance once you’ve registered, go to walktheworld.bloodcancer.org.uk, login and click on ‘My Page’. Scroll down and click on ‘Edit my page’ here you can change your target distance for October. You can amend this as many times as you like.

You can choose your own personal distance to complete during October, to work towards our collective target of walking around the world. Whether you walk regularly every day/week, or choose one day to walk a certain distance, every contribution matters and will make a difference. You can walk on your own or with friends and family.

If we reach our target of 40,075km before the end of October we’ll keep going to see how many times we can get around the world!

Once you sign up, your fundraising page will be created and any donations collected on your page will automatically be transferred to Blood Cancer UK. The best way to raise money is to share your page with friends and family so they can donate to you. Look out for lots of fundraising top tips and ideas when you sign up so that we can raise more together to beat blood cancer.

Yes, you can still collect money offline using a sponsorship form and add this to your page. Read more about how to pay in your donations. You can also pay in offline sponsorship by contacting our Supporter Relations Team. Email hello@bloodcancer.org.uk or call 0808 2080 888.

Once you've signed up, go to walktheworld.bloodcancer.org.uk, login and click on ‘My Page’. Click on ‘Edit page’ and underneath your story you can input your ‘Total offline amount’. Read this guide for further information on how to add offline fundraising to your JustGiving page.

No, there’s no minimum required fundraising target for this event. We just ask you pledge to raise as much as you can for Blood Cancer UK. To help you raise as much as possible, we’ll support you by sending you a free t-shirt once you’ve got your first donation and a medal if you raise £150.

To update your fundraising target, login to JustGiving and click on ‘Edit page’ in the top of your screen. Here’s a guide on how to edit your page and your fundraising target.

T-shirts will be sent out in batches to reduce costs to the charity. Get your first donation by Thursday 24th September to receive your t-shirt before the challenge begins. If you get your first donation after this date, you’ll receive your t-shirt later in October or in November with your ‘thank you’ letter.

If you can’t wait, visit our online shop and check out our range of clothing.

The first 400 people to raise £150 will be send a medal in November.

Please let us know if you would prefer not to receive a medal by emailing hello@bloodcancer.org.uk or calling 0808 2080 888.

Yes, once you’ve raised £20 on your fundraising page you can request a kids’ t-shirt to be sent alongside your adult t-shirt for your child/children. Please contact our Supporter Relations Team by emailing hello@bloodcancer.org.uk and include a link to your fundraising page and the child’s age for the t-shirt size.

Yes, if you’re one of the first 400 people to reach £150 you can request a medal to be sent alongside your medal in November for your child/children. Please contact our Supporter Relations Team by emailing hello@bloodcancer.org.uk and include a link to your fundraising page.

If you’re sharing a fundraising page, please ask your group leader (the person who set up the fundraising page) to let us know the name, t-shirt size and contact details (including address) of everyone who’s sharing their fundraising page by emailing hello@bloodcancer.org.uk.

This is so we can keep track of how much you've all raised to send out your t-shirts and medals once you hit your fundraising targets. After the first donation (and first t-shirt), an additional £20 must be raised per team member to receive additional t-shirts and each person must raise £150 to receive a medal.

Yes, once you sign up you can create or join a team fundraising page. Watch this video on how to create a team.

You’ll need a team name and team fundraising target to get started. When others sign up, they can choose to join your team by typing in the same team name, this will make sure you are all part of the same team and your pages are together. We ask that every team member signs up individually on our webpage so that we have your t-shirt size and contact details to send your rewards.

You can use the live chat function with the JustGiving team from within your JustGiving account to raise your issue. If not, please get in touch with our Supporter Relations Team and let us know the problem, we’re here to help you.

Please ask your friends, family, colleagues and neighbours to get involved – the more the merrier! You can also find out what other people in our community are doing and if they’re local to you in the Walk the World Facebook group.

Absolutely! If you’re looking to organise a charity fundraising event as part of your corporate philanthropy work then Walk the World is a great way to do this.

The event is flexible, so people of all fitness levels can take part and help reach our total distance around the world anyway they like. Virtual events are also a great way to build relationships between teams.

Please contact us for more information about fundraising as a company through Walk the World on hello@bloodcancer.org.uk.

Yes absolutely! You can take part whenever suits you, please let our Supporter Relations Team know by emailing hello@bloodcancer.org.uk so we can send your ‘thank you’ letter once you’ve completed your challenge.

Please email our Supporter Relations Team on hello@bloodcancer.org.uk or phone 0808 2080 888 to let us know that you’d like to withdraw.

You can email hello@bloodcancer.org.uk or phone 0808 2080 888 with any questions and we’d be happy to help.