Name: Go the Distance
Start: 2026-01-01
Location: Your local area

Date 1 – 31 January 2026
Location Your local area
Sponsorship target Raise as much as you can

A New Year challenge for you! This January, Go the Distance for women and girls around the world.

Walk, run, cycle or swim as many miles as you can throughout the month and fundraise to support women and girls who are challenging inequality and creating a more fair and just future for all.

You can take part on your own, or team up with friends, family or colleagues. Either way, we’ll be here to support you all the way!

How far will you go for the rights of women and girls?

Take part and you'll receive

A digital calendar to help you track your miles across the month.
An ActionAid t-shirt when you raise £100.
A sustainable wooden medal when you raise £150.

Ready to Go the Distance? Sign-up now!

We'll use your address details to send you a T-Shirt when you raise £100.

First name

Last name

Email address

Telephone number

Address Line 1

Address line 2

Town / City

Postcode

How did you hear about us?

Will you walk, run, cycle or swim?

T-Shirt size (receive one for free when you raise over £100)

Three simple steps to Go the Distance

1

Sign-up

Pick your distance and sign-up to take part in Go the Distance this January by completing our short form.

Join Team ActionAid

2

Start fundraising

Create your JustGiving page and link your Strava so your family and friends can track your progress.

Create fundraiser

3

Go the Distance!

Walk, run, cycle or swim your way to the finish line and change the world with women and girls as you go.

How your fundraising will make a difference

£50

could provide nutritious meals for three weeks for a survivor of violence who's escaped abuse and is living in a temporary safe space in India.

£100

could provide one woman farmer in Kenya with expert beekeeping training, unlocking the skills and knowledge to run a thriving honey business.

£150

could produce posters and leaflets to educate and inform communities in Cambodia about climate change science.

Meet Anifa

Anifa is from Mozambique. She is boldy challenging social expectations and has trained as a metalworker, a role almost exclusively held by men in her region.

Travelling over an hour each day to reach the vocational training facility, she was one of only six women in a class of 30.

Anifa is ‘going the distance’ every single day. Not only in the long journey she makes to her training, but in the courage it takes to step into a male-dominated workshop and claim her space.

After completing the three-month course, she learned to craft gates, chairs, and beds, and now works in her family’s workshop.

By taking part in Go the Distance and fundraising, you can help women around the world break into roles once deemed “not for them,” so more women like Anifa can build skills, earn a living, and lead change in their communities.

Sign up now

Anifa from Mozambique is training as a metalworker.

Photo: Dilayla Romeo/ActionAid

Get free materials and advice

We’ve got lots of useful training and fundraising goodies to help you with your event.

Pay in your sponsorship money

Thank you so much for your incredible support – you are changing lives, for good.

Pay in the funds you’ve raised

Contact us

If you have any questions or need support with your fundraising, please get in touch. Email events@actionaid.org or call 01460 238 000.

Go the Distance