This challenge asks you to swim 8 kilometres across the month of March.

You can split this out however you like to help you hit your target, and you can change the challenge to whatever works for you - make it harder or easier!

It’s free to take part in Swim 8km in March and easy to sign up:

1. Sign up here to request your free swim hat and t-shirt.

2. Once you sign up, you will receive your own fundraising page too. You can personalise this page to make it uniquely yours!

3. Share the link to your fundraising page with all your friends, family and colleagues. Tell them about your challenge and ask them to sponsor you.

4. Swim 8km throughout March and share regular updates.

5. Feel a huge sense of pride and joy for completing the challenge!

With it being a personal challenge, you can alter the challenge as needed as we understand that it’s not always possible to complete the challenge as planned. We want you to take part in whatever way works best for you, whether you reduce or increase the distance you cover or give yourself a different time frame to complete it within.

You aren’t required to let us know, unless you wish to, but it’s best to let your supporters know by posting an update on your page.

Please note, the distance leader board and badges are set to specific distances and run between 1 - 31 March. If you hit milestones outside these dates, you can request these badges by emailing facebookchallenge@gosh.org

Please visit the Resources tab within My Dashboard to find your swim tracker to keep count of your activity. We will also send a copy of your tracker in the post with your swim hat and t-shirt.

You can also add your lengths to your fundraising page automatically by syncing up your Strava, Garmin or Fitbit app in your Dashboard. Or if you would prefer, you can add your swim lengths manually instead.

The most important action to take is posting regular updates on your challenge progress on your social media channels and fundraising page so your friends and family can see how hard you're pushing yourself!

There is no fundraising target for this challenge, but we ask everyone to raise as much as they can.

You'll see that your page is automatically created with the target of £223, which could fund a Play worker and everything they need to prepare art and craft packs for creative play on the ward each day.

You can change your fundraising target at any time so you're welcome to set your own personal goal.

Yes! Once you sign up to Swim 8km in March, you will receive your very own fundraising page, which you can personalise with your story, updates and pictures.

From your fundraising dashboard, you can also invite friends and family to join you, send out messages asking for support and access our Swim 8km in March resources.

Yes, you can fundraise offline as well as online. You can download a sponsorship form within the Resources tab of your fundraising dashboard.

To pay in your offline donations, you can either:

• Pay it directly onto your fundraising page.
  
  
• Pay online using our website form. Please select Facebook Fundraiser to then click Swim 8km in March in the list of events.
  
  
• Call us on 020 3841 3131 to pay over the phone. Be sure to mention Swim 8km in Marchy!

Yes, we can arrange this for you. Please email us at facebookchallenge@gosh.org and we can make sure this sorted for you.

If you would like to talk to us about a specific area you would like to fundraise for, please email us at facebookchallenge@gosh.org and we can talk you through your options.

All the amazing fundraising you do will go towards helping seriously ill children from around the UK being treated at Great Ormond Street Hospital. Your fundraising will help to fund pioneering research into life-changing treatments, state-of-the-art technology that helps save young lives, vital patient family support services and wellbeing services for GOSH’s superhero staff.

Money raised will also go towards the creation of new child-focused surroundings at the hospital to help children feel safe and calm during their appointments and treatments.

After registering, you should receive a welcome email from us within a few minutes, so we're sorry that you haven’t received this.

Please check your junk/spam folder as it can sometimes end up in here by mistake. If it isn’t there, please email us at facebookchallenge@gosh.org with your full name and we can resend this to you. 

T-shirts and swim hats will be posted in batches from the previous week every Tuesday and Friday in February and March.

Usually, it will take up to 10 working days from posting for your t-shirt to arrival. Please be aware that we have been seeing slower postal times so please bear with us.

T-shirts and swim hats will be posted in batches from the previous week every Tuesday and Friday in February. Please allow up to 7 days for your t-shirt and swim hat to be despatched and up to two weeks for it to arrive (as this allows for any potential slower postal times).

Please note, we will not be sending replacement t-shirts until 17 March. This is due to the time and costs involved with resending t-shirts. Nearly all original orders go onto arrive, with some arriving slightly later than expected. By doing this, we can ensure more of your incredible fundraising can go towards our work in helping seriously ill children. 

If your t shirt does not arrive by 12 March. please fill out this form to reorder. The form will be open between the 12-16 March.