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During this current time of social distancing, you may be looking for a new challenge - we have the perfect answer for you. Back Up is excited to launch The Spinal Circuit . This is a solo, virtual challenge for you to help us raise the vital funds we need in the coming months. Our services rely on events and challenge fundraising and the global COVID-19 health crisis has left us rapidly adapting our work whilst facing a dramatic loss of income. We need your support now to keep vital projects alive and ensure we are here to support people affected by spinal cord injury now and in the future.

The Spinal Circuit encourages you to walk, run, wheel, or cycle as far as you can around your local area. We're challenging you to set yourself an individual target and contribute to our total distance. We want the Back Up community as a whole to complete as many virtual circuits around all 11 spinal units in the UK as possible before Spinal Cord Injury Awareness Day on 15 May. One complete circuit is a whopping 1799km!

Set yourself a challenge, be it to walk a total distance of 5km or to get on your bike and cover 500km over this period. Remember to share your pictures using #SpinalCircuit. Join our Club on Strava to see how well everyone else in the Back Up community is doing with their own separate challenges.

The challenge is open to everyone. The Spinal Circuit will run until Spinal Cord Injury Awareness Day on the 15th May 2020 and we encourage you to fundraise for Back Up whilst taking part. If you raise over £100 you will be rewarded with an exclusive Spinal Circuit medal!

We know you'll do your very best to help us smash our fundraising target and enable us to deliver our vital work during these months of social distancing.

This is a solo, virtual challenge which combines all of your distances together. Please do not organise to do this in groups. Current government advice is that it's safe to exercise outside at a safe distance from other people. Please read the Government's guidance which can be found here and adhere to it at all times. If you have been identified as an extremely vulnerable person and advised to stay at home at all times as part of shielding we ask that you do not take part in this outdoor challenge. Please contact us if you would like to explore other ways to fundraise within the home. If the government advice changes, The Spinal Circuit will be paused, and re-opened for the remaining duration once it is safe to do so.