Frequently asked questions

Joe Wicks supports BBC Children in Need through his commitment to fronting our fundraising campaigns.

Joe will be completing the challenge in late September to galvanise others to take it on!

You’ll need to complete 2 miles a day from Sunday 1st November. On the final day, Friday 13th November, you’ll need to complete 2.2 miles to reach the full marathon distance of 26.2 miles.

Not at all. This challenge is for everyone! You can run, walk or roll your 2 miles each day – whatever works for you.

The challenge is designed around completing 2 miles per day, but if you want to go further on any day, you can. Just make sure you are working towards distances that feel comfortable for you.

Yes! If completing 2 miles in one go doesn't work for you, you can split your distance into smaller chunks throughout the day.

Please never take on a physical challenge that feels beyond your current capacity. If you’re in any doubt as to your ability to take part, you should consult your doctor or another relevant healthcare professional. 

Definitely not. This challenge is designed for people of all abilities. Whether you're a regular runner, prefer a gentle walk or use a wheelchair, you can take part by covering the daily distance in a way that works for you.

Yes! In fact, it's a great way to keep each other motivated. You could complete your daily miles together, challenge each other to see who can go further or faster, or simply check in with one another.

This is your challenge so you are responsible for it and can tailor it to suit you.  Whilst we're all raising as much money as possible for BBC Children in Need and Joe is there to encourage you, this is not an organised event.

This is where you can keep track of your challenge and your fundraising all in one place. You can personalise it by adding your photo, your story and regular updates.

It's where you'll start earning virtual badges for both your running and your fundraising. It’s easy to share your fundraising page with friends and family - so you can show off how you're getting on and they can support you by donating.

Absolutely! Donating to your own page is a great way to get your fundraising rolling, in fact, statistically, it has been proven that self-donating helps to encourage donations from your supporters by up to 42%!

The best way to add cash donations to your total is to pay them into your bank account and then make a payment from your debit/credit card to your own JustGiving page.

You can manually add any offline funds raised by following these simple instructions:

Log in to your fundraising page using your JustGiving sign in details

1. Clicking the ‘edit my page’ button
2. Adding the amount raised offline.
3. Click ‘save changes’ and the offline funds will then be shown as part of your total raised.

Gift Aid is a great opportunity for donors to make their voluntary donations to BBC Children in Need worth 25% more – without spending a penny more. It enables charities like us to claim back the basic tax that supporters have paid on their donations from HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC).

If every supporter agreed to Gift Aid, it would raise hundreds of thousands of pounds more to support children and young people in communities like yours.

To be eligible to add Gift Aid to your donation, you must be a UK taxpayer and you must have paid - or will pay - an amount of Income Tax and/or Capital Gains Tax for the current tax year that is at least equal to the amount of tax that all the charities and Community Amateur Sports Clubs (CASCs) to which you donate will reclaim on gifts for the current tax year. Other taxes, such as VAT and Council Tax, do not qualify. The charity will reclaim 25p of tax on every £1 that you give.

When setting up your JustGiving page you will have chosen a password - don’t worry if you've forgotten it!

You can check your emails from JustGiving to retrieve your login details, or head to the JustGiving Help & Support page for help logging into your account.

The leaderboard is driven by the funds raised on each individual page taking part in the challenge. If you delete your page, it will stop showing on the leaderboard.

For the Pudsey ears - once you sign up for Run with Pudsey and Joe Wicks, we will email you a form to complete to claim your free Pudsey ears. It may take up to 14 days to receive it. Upon receipt of your form, we will post the Pudsey ears out to you.

For the Pudsey pin badge and key ring – these will be posted to you after the challenge completion if you opted in on the sign-up form.

We will send one set per JustGiving page.

We will do our best but the Pudsey goodies are subject to availability. We will be in touch to confirm a resolution in an instance they are no longer available.

We’re proud of your donations – and we want you to be proud too! The easiest way to receive a Thank You Certificate is to download yours here. 

We raise money by organising an annual fundraising campaign that culminates with our BBC Children in Need Appeal Show live on BBC One.

Each year, people like you - from every corner of the UK - come together to support BBC Children in Need and help change young lives; from schools and corporate partners like Asda and DFS to individual fundraisers, colleagues across the BBC and famous faces.

We use the money raised to support the children and young people who need it most, right across the UK.

BBC Children in Need currently supports over 1,500 local charities and projects helping children and young people who live with a range of challenges such as poverty, disability or illness, distress, neglect, trauma and other significant obstacles.

In the last grant year alone, your support helped to change the lives of over 426,000 children and young people right here in the UK, in communities like yours.

We have a rigorous decision-making process in place to make sure the grants we award will have a positive impact on the lives of children and young people facing a range of challenges. Our teams carefully assess these applications to confirm that grants will make a real difference to those who need it most.

Grant applications are reviewed in the Nation or Region in which each project is based. A group of people, either local staff or volunteer committee members, draw on their specialist knowledge of the context of the area, the non-profit and children’s sectors and BBC Children in Need’s policies and priorities to advise our board of Trustees regarding which projects should receive grants.