It’s free to take part in Swim 8km in October 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 in October 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 October. If you hit milestones outside these dates, you can request these badges by emailing facebookchallenge@gosh.org

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

You'll see that your fundraising 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.