Join Challenge 40
Join in with Age UK Solihull's 40th birthday celebrations by taking part in Challenge 40!
You can decide what challenge to do - it could be something physical, creative, mentally challenging or something plain silly! The only rule is that it must be based around the number 40.
Ask your friends and family to sponsor you to raise funds to help us to continue to be here for older and vulnerable Solihull residents, as we have been for the last 40 years.
You could make your activity as challenging as you like, and it could be done in a day or a week, or over 40 days or even a year!
Need some inspiration?
Watch our video or read on for some ideas...
Some 40-based ideas to get you started
- Do 400,000 steps in 40 days
- Walk, run, cycle or row 40km - just under a marathon! This could be done in one day or or over a few days or weeks
- If you're feeling really ambitious, how about 40 miles in 40 hours?!
- Do 40 squats a day for a month
- Bake 40 cakes
- Sing 40 songs
- Get 40 people together to do something funny or silly (think a mass ice-bucket challenge!)
- Do 40 good deeds
- Travel (virtually) the distance between Solihull and one of its twin towns - Cholet, France (420 miles) or Main-Taunus, Germany (539 miles) in 40 days
- Donate £40
- Swim 40 lengths
- Speak about an interesting topic for 40 minutes
- Host a quiz with 40 questions (or if you're really keen, 40 rounds!)
- Sell 40 items of clothing and donate the proceeds
- Cook for 40 people
- Knit 40 hats
- Read 40 books
- Write 40 poems
- Run an event or activity (quiz night, bake sale, coffee morning, raffle, bingo night) and raise at least £40. Nominate one person who attends to do the same and raise another £40 with their own event, then they nominate one person from their event, and so on.
Raise funds!
Let your friends and family know about your challenge and ask them to sponsor you to help raise funds for Age UK Solihull!
If you're doing a challenge on your own, you could set your target as £40, or if you're doing it as a group, how about aiming for £400 between you?
Any funds you raise will help us to provide our vital services to older and vulnerable people in the Solihull borough.
To collect donations online, you can create a JustGiving page or a Facebook Fundraiser.
JustGiving is the world's most trusted fundraising platform. Click below to create a page linked to our Challenge 40 campaign.
It is easy to set up a Facebook Fundraiser and share it with your friends. We receive 100% of the funds raised through Facebook.
If you have any cash or cheque donations you can send them to us at Age UK Solihull, The Core, Central Library Buiding, Homer Road, Solihull B91 3RG.
Thank you to everyone who has joined in with Challenge 40 so far, including:
Prince of Wales Care Home who did 40 squats a day in January- Bright Dawn Home Care who gave 40 daffodils to 40 of their clients, and donated £40 to Age UK Solihull
- Team AUKS - a group of our own staff and volunteers - who completed 400,000 steps each in 40 days, raising £450
- Copt Heath Golf Club Seniors Section (pictured) who organised a 40 Yard Nearest the Pin competition and raised £95 for us
- Eastcote Park Care Home who are donating 40 festive lunches to Solihull residents in return for a donation to Age UK Solihull.
- Over 40 Solihull businesses and community groups who are raffling off chocolate bouquets to raise funds for us this festive period.
Sign up to Challenge 40!
Sign up to take part in Challenge 40 and we will send you a FREE Fundraising Pack with tips, ideas and a sponsorship form.