This year, Safeline was so happy that so many people planned so many different ways of fundraising for us. The COVID 19 pandemic drastically altered these plans.

We are now challenging you to take some steps/miles/kilometres, either alone or with a team, to help raise awareness and funding to ensure that adults and children affected by sexual abuse continue to be supported.

The Challenge will officially start on 26th December and continue until 31st March 2021. Some of our supporters have already started, others are already working out what they can do.

To join the challenge, you can make a donation through this page or you can connect a fundraising page to the campaign and pledge to make some steps and ask people to support your Steps4Safeline.

Want to make a donation and pledge some steps? Please add your pledge as a message with your donation. Don't forget that JustGiving allows you to be anonymous if that is your preference.

SUGGESTED STEPS4SAFELINE CHALLENGES

Steps4Safeline could be:

- A daily account of steps you want to achieve to improve your health and wellbeing

- A set number of times you want to walk around your local park

- Taking your dog out for a longer walk each day (#Paws4Safeline)

- Run Every Day for a week/month

- Completing a Half-Marathon distance or a Full Marathon. This could be over several days.

To inspire our donors and supporters, we looked at the map where our UK donors live and came up with the following suggestions for distances that you can complete virtually in your local area:

1. Our two furthest donors (North to South)

in the UK live in Truro and Aberdeen. We challenge a team or an individual to do their Steps4Safeline by completing steps or mileage in their local area or community, based on the following distance guides.

Truro to Aberdeen - 627 miles / 1009Km or 1,324,147 steps (or just over 10,000 steps a day each for a team of 4 over one month)

Truro to Warwick - 235 miles / 378 or 496,063 steps

Aberdeen to Warwick - 417 miles / 671Km or 880,577 steps

2. Safeline has two main offices in the UK, one in Warwick and the other in Stratford. Fancy a step between the two and/or back again? These are suggested distances which could be used in your local area.

Warwick to Stratford - 9.2 miles / 14.7Km or 19,291 steps

Warwick to Stratford return - 18.4 miles / 29.4 Km or 38,583 steps.

There are different apps which can be used to track your distance such as STRAVA, RunKeeper, and Garmin.

If you want to set up a Team Challenge then there is a free app called StrideKick which allows up to 10 team members to compete and track their steps!

Some of our supporters prefer fundraising with an organised event. Safeline is an official charity at the London Winter Walk which is happening in London on the 27th March 2021 (COVID permitting). A good source of virtual and actual events are listed by SiEvents

Safeline's services are free and we offer long-term support. This is where you can step in and help. Every £48 raised is another counselling session for a survivor in need. The average survivor needs weekly counselling for 6 months. Your steps and your fundraising will help a survivor to continue to walk forward with Safeline.

Do pick up our challenge and swim, cycle, walk, skip or jump some Steps4Safeline.