50 Burpees a Day Challenge - FAQs50 Burpees a Day Challenge - FAQs
Sign up to the challenge
Join the 50 Burpees a Day Challenge in February and you’ll receive:
CRUK T-shirt
Online Giving Page
Digital fundraising pack
Participants raise money for Cancer Research UK by challenging themselves to do 50 burpees a day across the month of February.
Click 'Join Group'. Once you're in, you can complete a form to get your free t-shirt, get tips for completing your burpees, be inspired by other fundraisers, and find out anything you want to know about the challenge.
Yes! If you don’t have Facebook, you can set up a Cancer Research UK Online Giving Page using the link below and collect sponsorship for your 50 Burpees a Day Challenge: https://activities.cancerresearchuk.org/burpees-challenge-feb-2025
There is no entry fee for this challenge. Participants are required to collect any sponsorship to Cancer Research UK through their Online Giving Page. This will automatically be sent to us once paid onto your fundraising page.
Whilst we encourage everyone to complete this challenge in February, this is a personal challenge, and you can start and finish your challenge at a time that is convenient for you. If you can’t complete your burpees count on any day, then you can make up for it at any point of the month and continue the challenge into March.
You can complete the challenge in any way that suits you. There are people of all levels of fitness doing this challenge. The important thing is that you’re doing something that challenges you, whether that’s all 50 burpees in one go or split up over the day. It should be tough, but doable. However, you choose to complete the challenge and raise money, you’ll be helping beat cancer.
Don’t worry you can make up the number of burpees on another day or extend your challenge into the following month if needed. Complete the challenge in a way that’s suits to you.
The only thing that matters is that you challenge yourself, so try to complete as much of the challenge as you can. Whether you complete the full 50 burpees a day for the whole of February or not, the money that you fundraise will allow Cancer Research UK to continue to fund life-saving research and we can’t thank you enough.
We trust you! You don’t need to provide evidence that you’ve completed the challenge to us. Updating your friends and family on your online fundraising page, however, is important! Make sure you keep them posted on your progress and share videos and photos throughout February – the more updates the better. Supporters who regularly post their progress raise 40% more on average.
We recommend using our burpees calendar to keep track of your progress: https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/sites/default/files/downloadable-resources/50_burpees_a_day_challenge_calendar.pdf
Tick off each day you’ve completed your burpees and track the number of burpees you’ve done so you can see your overall total. Don’t forget to post about your progress regularly on your online giving page to encourage donations!
Complete the below form to receive your free t-shirt in the post. Once completed, please allow 10-15 working days for your t-shirt to arrive: https://activities.cancerresearchuk.org/burpees-challenge-feb-2025
If you have not received your t-shirt after this time, please contact: supporter.services@cancer.org.uk.
We offer the option for supporters taking part to opt out of being sent a t-shirt should they not need one for the challenge. When filling out the form, simply select ‘no’ where it asks if you’d like to receive a t-shirt, you’ll still receive a Giving Page, be able to join the challenge group and take part! To sign up to the challenge, please follow the link below: https://activities.cancerresearchuk.org/burpees-challenge-feb-2025
If you have any further questions please email supporter.services@cancer.org.uk or call 0300 1231022 (lines open 08:00 – 20:00 Monday to Friday and, 09:00 – 17:00 at weekends)
Unfortunately, returning t-shirts comes at a cost to Cancer Research UK, therefore, we ask that you keep hold of it for personal use (for example bed, gym, give to a friend, etc). If you would like a replacement, please use our online shop linked below: https://shop.cancerresearchuk.org/product/cancer-research-uk-t-shirt
Sending out your t-shirt comes at a cost to Cancer Research UK so please only order one t-shirt to ensure as much fundraising goes towards our life-saving research. We ask if you do request a t-shirt that you set up an Online Fundraiser and donate to your page.
Additional t-shirts can be purchased here.
Unfortunately, medals come at a huge cost to the charity so we will not be sending these out. However, we will send all supporters a certificate in their completion email at the end of the challenge and they can access downloadable digital badges to shout about their achievement on social.
Yes, under 18s can take part in this challenge, but we do not market to them and any third-party platform forum (e.g. a Facebook forum) is only available to over 18s. If under 18s are taking part, their parent/guardian must consent to the child’s participation, supervise the challenge and accept responsibility for complying with the challenge rules. Currently we are unable to accept registration for a child, so the child’s parent/guardian have to register on the child’s behalf. Similarly, if a child wants to raise money online and/or join a forum, the child’s parent/guardian must register for an online fundraising page and/or join the forum on the child’s behalf.
Participants register as an individual but can take on the challenge as a team and split the activity up as a group or all complete 50 burpees a day across the month. They can also set up a Team Giving Page and invite other registrants to join via the Cancer Research UK online fundraising site.
To set up a team:
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All your team will need to sign up to the 50 Burpees a Day in February Challenge so they each have their own Online Giving Page
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Once everyone has signed up, log into your account
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Hit the 'Create new team' button and follow the instructions
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Once you've created your team, you can send the team page URL to friends and family so they can join too!
Our Online Fundraising Platform is the easiest way to raise money. You can set up a Giving Page here: https://activities.cancerresearchuk.org/burpees-challenge-feb-2025
You can then share the page with your friends and family to gather sponsorship for your challenge.
There is no minimum amount of fundraising that we set for participants, but we recommend that supporters set a reasonable target of raising about £150.
We have plenty of fundraising tools and ideas to help you raise life-saving donations. Please see our fundraising hub with everything you need from the challenge here.
You can use our sponsorship form to raise money rather than using an online method. Simply download it and print it off to keep track of all your collected or pledged sponsorships. Once you have completed your fundraising, please send the form with a cheque to:
50 Burpees a Day Challenge in February, Cancer Research UK, PO BOX 1561, Oxford, OX4 9GZ.
This challenge is a fundraising initiative specifically developed by Cancer Research UK, and therefore all fundraising must go direct the charity.
Gift Aid is a tax relief allowing UK charities to reclaim an extra 25% on every eligible donation made by a UK taxpayer. This means Cancer Research UK can claim an extra 25p for every £1 donated, without it costing you or your sponsors an extra penny. If the donation is eligible for Gift Aid, sponsors need to fill out the sponsor form, following the guidelines at the top of the page.
Facebook Fundraisers are automatically set up to only stay open for ten days. To make the most of your fundraising efforts, you need to change the end date to keep your fundraiser open throughout and after the challenge. To change the end date simply, click ‘More’ under the invite button, then click ‘Edit Fundraiser’. We recommend setting this date to at least a month after your challenge has ended so you can continue to collect vital donations for your efforts!
Unfortunately, once your Facebook Fundraiser has finished you cannot reopen the same fundraising page. However, you can create a new one and set the end date for past your challenge, so that you can continue receiving donations once you’ve finished your challenge: http://www.facebook.com/fund/cancerresearchuk/
To see your past fundraisers, go to the Facebook home page on a desktop and look underneath your name on the left-hand side - click fundraisers > your activity > scroll down the page until you reach "your past fundraisers"
Donating on Facebook is safe and secure and there is no fee taken from Facebook to set up a Facebook Fundraiser. If you have any suspicious charges, we recommend speaking directly to your bank. If you have any questions about your Facebook Fundraiser please contact Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/help