The Childhood Day Mile

3 steps to taking part

• 1. Sign up now for free

  You'll receive a fundraising pack with everything you need to get started.

• 2. Plan your mile

  Decide who you'll be taking part with. Start collecting donations using your online fundraising page to help you reach your £80 target.

• 3. Move your mile

  On Friday 6 June or another date that works for you. Every mile covered and pound raised will help keep children safe.

Your mile, your way

Take part in a way that feels best for you.

You could walk it, run it, ride it, swim it, scooter it or even read it!

Here are just a few of the ways you could do your mile:

• Three-legged
• Karaoke walk
• Sailing
• Fancy dress
• On mobility scooters
• Cycling
• Dribbling a football
• Indoor climbing
• Relay race
• Swimming
• Space hooping
• Horse riding
• A round of golf
• Tap dancing
• Parachuting
• Ice skating
• Scuba diving
• At the zoo
• Litter picking
• Fashion catwalk
• Pub crawl

You can do your Childhood Day Mile anywhere you like — you can pick the location and type of activity that works for you.

Make a splash at the local pool, find a nature trail or grab a machine at the gym.

Included

Get your fundraising pack through the post, including:

• An event bib to wear on your mile
• An event guide
• An ideas spinner
• Paper sponsorship form
• Activity sheet

Fundraising target

Participants are encouraged to raise £80 for their Childhood Day Mile. But any amount you raise will help the NSPCC in their fight to prevent child abuse.

As part of your registration, your own personal fundraising page will be set up for you on Enthuse. You can use it to collect donations for your mile.

How it helps

• £29

  could pay for a Childline Practitioner for one hour, helping our volunteer counsellors be here for children.

• £80

  could help answer 20 children's calls for help to Childline. 

• £394

  could pay for a trained practitioner for two days, helping children get back on track following abuse.

2024 participants Barnaby and Theo took part in the Childhood Day Mile. Barnaby swam 64 lengths of the training pool to complete his mile and Theo cycled his mile. Together, they raised an amazing £350, which could pay for the NSPCC Speak out Stay safe programme to reach 116 primary school children, teaching them how to recognise abuse and neglect and empowering them to speak out if they are worried about anything.

Entry fees

2024 participant Katie took part in the Childhood Day Mile by swimming a mile in her local swimming pool:

I moved my mile before work by heading to my gym - this challenge was great because I could work it into my daily routine. I swam for about 45 minutes and managed to reach just over a mile and a half! I mainly fundraised through family and friends. It felt really special to take part on Childhood Day, knowing that I'd played my small part whilst people across the country were all supporting the same cause and having fun to help protect children.

I believe it is an important lesson for young children to learn to be able to 'pay it forward' in even the smallest way possible and how every pound donated can make such a huge difference to so many people's lives. Our children had a memorable day doing this great deed and still speak about it today. Kelly Turner, Deputy Headteacher, Altmore Infant School, London

For last year’s Childhood Day Mile, a group of readers got their thinking caps on and completed a read-a-thon for Childhood Day! Throughout June, they wanted to see if they could read a mile – the equivalent of 8,169 pages! With 43 people taking part and 87 different books read, a whopping 28,670 pages were submitted. This was equivalent to 3.5 miles! They managed to raise an incredible £253!