EACH YEAR, Get Up Give Back has 3 key aims:
1) To improve the physical and mental health of Property Entrepreneurs, Investors and business people
2) To raise awareness of a Cause.
3) To raise funds for charities pertaining to that Cause.
We are proud to announce the total fundraise for Get U Give Back 2025 - “Save A Life” - is an exceptional £107,297.
The efforts of the participants, sponsors and all the 1530 people who kindly donated means this will fund Critical and Emergency First Aid training for the public, administered by these 3 incredible charities:
- Midlands Air Ambulance: Saving lives by saving time. Midlands Air Ambulance Charity (MAAC) operates and funds three air ambulances covering six Midlands counties - (Charity No. 1143118)
- Freddies Wish: With love at it's heart, Freddie's Wish helps those who have lost a child of any age, offering support and care when needed and paediatric First Aid Training - (Charity No. 120260)
- First Aid 4 All: Are London paramedics on a mission! Alongside their “day jobs” as serving first responders to train 13,000 kids a year in life saving first aid skills - (Charity No. 1211977)
“Get Up Give Back 2025 Challenges included: The Snowdon Summit, Yorkshire 3 Peaks, The National 3 Peaks and Firewalk!”
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To mark our 5th anniversary, GUGB raised nearly £150,000 for five brilliant cancer charities, through five bold challenges focused on physical and mental wellbeing:
Walk – 10k a day or 500,000 steps in 5 weeks
Run – 5k, 10k, or a half marathon
Hike – Snowdon, Yorkshire 3 Peaks, or the National 3 Peaks
Cycle – Ride London or personal distance goals
Swim – 1,500m, 5,000m or an endurance challenge
We proudly supported:
Shay’s Smiles, Shine, The Cancer Support Centre, The Eve Appeal, and UCare – each fighting cancer through support, awareness, and research.
In April 2022, before the price rises, it was estimated that 5.3 million people had to choose between eating and heating. Food bank usage has risen by nearly 100% since 2007.
To combat the issue of food poverty in the UK, GUGB 2023 is supporting three splendid charities, in mental, physical and commitment challenges:
Magic Breakfast is a national organisation that has been running for over two decades and provides schools with up to 200,000 breakfasts a day. Their mission is simple; child hunger should never be a barrier to education.
The Tri Services Veterans Support Centre is a Stoke-based unit run by veterans, for veterans. They provide camaraderie, signposting and support along with 60,000 meals for veterans. They also "stood to", distributing 250,000 meals to the local community during the pandemic.
The Trussell Trust supports a nationwide network of 1,200 food banks. They provide emergency food and support to people locked in poverty, and campaign for change to end the need for food banks in the UK.
1 in 4 people in England alone will experience a mental health challenge of some kind every year, these challenges affect men, women, young people and children. In 2022 we partnered with StrongMen and The Lucy Rayner Foundation and raised £165,774 to support the incredible services these charities work tirelessly to provide.
StrongMen and The Lucy Rayner Foundation provide life-changing and life-saving support in that critical moment of need to men and young people, we supported The Lucy Rayner Foundation to continue offering IMMEDIATE face-to-face counselling sessions for young people and TWELVE months of weekender retreats organised by StrongMen.
This year, we continued our partnership with Buses 4 Homeless and we have successfully raised over £100,000 which will go to making a bigger dent in homelessness in the UK. Find out more about this massive achievement in our most recent Press Release.
Even before COVID, homelessness has been a growing issue in the UK and it’s a very complex topic that is close to our hearts.
Buses 4 Homeless have a very unique and bespoke end to end solution. They provide accommodation, training and support from their unique yet established rehabilitation centre.
In 2020, we partnered with Buses 4 Homeless as we wanted to make a dent in the growing issue of homelessness around the UK however regrettably our events were cancelled due to Covid-19 and as such we were unable to complete our run.
Buses 4 Homeless is a low-cost holistic solution to this growing issue. By refurbishing decommissioned buses into purpose-built end to end facilities for Eating, Sleeping, Wellbeing and Learning we intend to make a dent in this growing issue by re-engaging homeless people back into the community.
In 2019, we partnered with Operation Smile and broke the world record for the largest single donation ever given at over £75,000 funding life-changing operations for over 500 children and young adults born with facial deformities in third world countries.
Click here for more details on this fundraising event and World Record
