Join in our 10,000 steps a day challenge in 2025
Join the 10,000 Steps a Day Challenge in 2025!
Take a step toward better heart health by participating in our 10,000 Steps a Day Challenge. It's a fun, flexible way to get moving, raise awareness for heart health, and make a real difference in the fight against preventable diseases caused by high cholesterol.
How It Works:
Step 1: Sign up and commit to walking 10,000 steps a day throughout a chosen month in 2025
Step 2: Set a fundraising goal of £200 or more to support HEART UK in their efforts to reduce cholesterol-related heart disease.
Step 3: Walk your 10,000 steps each day — whether outdoors or on a treadmill, at any time of day, and at your own pace. Do it solo or invite friends, family, or colleagues to join in!
Why Participate?
Boost Your Health: Walking 10,000 steps a day helps improve cardiovascular health, lower cholesterol, and reduce the risk of heart disease.
Make a Difference: Your fundraising efforts will directly support HEART UK, a charity dedicated to preventing high cholesterol and the heart disease it causes.
It’s Easy and Flexible: You can walk wherever and whenever you like. It’s not about perfection; it’s about progress and making heart health a priority.
Ready to Get Started?
Sign up today to take part in this impactful challenge! Every step you take will help spread the message of heart health and support the fight against cholesterol-related heart disease.
To take part:
1) Use a tracker device to measure your steps. There are lots to brands to chose from on the market and free tracker apps you can access to record your progress (e.g. Fitbit, Strava).
Download the HEART UK tracker to measure your progress
2) Download the Outwalk App (compatible with both Android and Apple), add your colleagues to create a steps leaderboard.
3) Open your Just Giving page via the link below and set your £200+ fundraising target.
4) Share your Just Giving page with friends and colleagues via Facebook or email to boost your sponsorship. Why not get started by sponsoring yourself.
5) Share your progress and photos by regular up-dates at the beginning of the challenge, each week, just before the end and afterwards.
6) If you so wish, you can link your fitness app with your Just Giving page to show your progress and walking routes, learn more here.
Sign up today and make a difference for yourself as well as people with high cholesterol!
Tom’s 10,000 Step Challenge Journey – Heart Month
Tom shares his journey so far in the 10,000 Step Challenge for Heart Month! Taking on this challenge to support HEART UK, Tom has been stepping up every day to raise awareness of heart health and the importance of staying active. Watch his story, see his progress, and get inspired to keep moving for a healthier heart!
Sheila's 10,000 Step Challenge Journey – Heart Month
''Doing the 10,000 steps a day challenge was a personal achievement. Getting sponsorship meant that I had to go through with it. Knowing that I was helping myself and the charity at the same time kept me going each day'', Sheila Nardone, Head of Fundraising at HEART UK.
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If you have any questions or queries about this challenge, please contact [email protected]
Thank you for your support to HEART UK.
PLEASE NOTE: By completing the challenge you are doing this at your own risk and the charity cannot be held responsible for any injury caused.
