A huge thank you to everyone who took part in the 2025 Childhood Day Mile and helped raise vital funds to keep children safe.
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What is the Chilhood Day Mile?
Childhood Day is our national day of action to help protect children. Whether you walk, run, skip, or dance your mile, it’s all about getting involved and making a difference. You can take part solo, with friends, family, colleagues—or even your furry companions. The Childhood Day Mile is for everyone.
On the first Friday in June, we’re asking people to move a mile and raise money for children.
Move your mile, your way
How you complete your mile is totally up to you!
- Take a family stroll
- Team up with a friend for a three-legged mile
- Organise a workplace relay
- Or get creative with a non-physical challenge!
Need ideas? Take a look at our FAQ section for fun and inclusive ways to take part.
How to take part in the Childhood Day Mile
Step 1
Sign up for free and we’ll send you a fundraising pack with everything you need to get started.
Step 2
Plan your mile and decide who you’ll be taking part with. Start collecting donations using your online fundraising page (which we’ll set up) to help you reach your £80 target.
Step 3
Move your mile on Friday 5 June 2026 (or another date that works for you). Every mile covered and pound raised will help keep children safe.
Your mile, your way
Take part in a way that feels best for you - you could swim it, scooter it or even read it!
Last year a group of readers got their thinking caps on and completed a read-a-thon for Childhood Day! Throughout June, they wanted to see if they could read a mile – the equivalent of 8,169 pages!
With 43 people taking part and 87 different books read, a whopping 28,670 pages were submitted. This was equivalent to 3.5 miles! They managed to raise an incredible £253 for Childhood Day!
Your questions answered
We're asking people across the UK and Channel Islands to move a mile on Friday 5 June 2026 as part of Childhood Day. Move your mile any way you choose - walk, swim, hike or horse ride!
Taking place every year on the first Friday in June, Childhood Day is our national flagship day of fundraising and action that brings communities together and gives everyone a way to help keep children safe. If 6 June doesn't work for you then you can take part any time around this date. You are welcome to take part at any time of day.
You can do your Childhood Day Mile anywhere you like — you can pick the location and type of activity that works for you.
Make a splash at the local pool, find a nature trail or grab a machine at the gym.
Is there a preorganised Childhood Day Mile's I can join?
The Childhood Day Mile is all about planning your own route. We encourage participants to plan their own mile in their local area or anywhere else they like! Join our Facebook group and ask if there is anyone else near you that you could link up with. If not, maybe you could ask friends, family or neighbours if they will join you?
The Childhood Day Mile is for you to take part in how you like! The possibilities are endless, take part in a way that feels best for you.
Here are just a few of the ways you could do your mile:
- Three-legged
- Karaoke walk
- Sailing
- Fancy dress
- On mobility scooters
- Cycling
- Dribbling a football
- Indoor climbing
- Relay race
- Swimming
- Space hooping
- Horse riding
- A Round of Golf
- Tap dance
- Parachuting
- Ice Skating
- Scuba diving
- At the zoo
- Litter picking
- Fashion Catwalk
- Pub Crawl
2024 participant Katie took part in the Childhood Day Mile by swimming a mile in her local swimming pool.
Katie said “I moved my mile before work by heading to my gym - this challenge was great because I could work it into my daily routine. I swam for about 45 minutes and managed to reach just over a mile and a half! I mainly fundraised through family and friends. It felt really special to take part on Childhood Day, knowing that I'd played my small part whilst people across the country were all supporting the same cause and having fun to help protect children."
No! Here are some ideas for less physical ways to complete your mile...
- Read a mile of books – Get your friends or colleagues together and complete a read-a-thon for Childhood Day! Throughout June, see if you can read a mile – the equivalent of 8,169 pages.
- Game a mile – Choose your favourite video game and complete a mile online. Move your sim a mile round the block or race Mario until you’ve achieved the distance.
- 22 minutes - It takes 22 minutes for the average person to walk a mile, instead of walking use this time to do your favourite hobby or take on a new challenge like learning a language.
If you have a group of people wanting to take part nominate one person to register on behalf of the group, this person will then receive the key information to disperse to everyone else.
The nominee will also have a fundraising page has been set up on Enthuse that the whole group can use to fundraise.
If you have any questions, please email [email protected]
We're asking participants to raise £80 for their Childhood Day Mile. But any amount you raise will help us in our fight to prevent child abuse.
As part of your registration, your own personal fundraising page will be set up for you on Enthuse. You can use it to collect donations for your mile.
Participants Barnaby and Theo took part in the Childhood Day Mile with Barnaby swimming 64 lengths and Theo cycling to complete their mile. Together, they raised an amazing £350.
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