Please support the 40 for 40 St Barnabas challenge

This year, in support of our chosen charity St Barnabas, we're doing the 40 for 40 challenge. And we'd really love it if you could help by taking part or sponsoring someone you know who is doing the challenge. All the details you need are here.

5 min read| Published in Campaigns on 12 December 2022 by Kevin Scrupps

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So far 45 people have signed up! To join the challenge, click here to find out how to set up JustGiving – or if you’re familiar with the process, click here to get started. Don’t forget to include what activity you are doing in your Story!

To donate to someone doing the challenge (and to see what activity they’ve picked), click on their n a me here.

Here’s how it works: you pick a challenging activity and try to raise £40, starting from 1st January. We’ve provided a list of ideas below but if you’re feeling creative you could come up with your own, or a combination! You’ll see from the list that a lot of activities aim to be completed over 40 days; while others involve doing something 40 times. Why not choose something that will really test you, or do more than one thing – it’s all for a good cause!

St Barnabas is a local charity to us and one that we’re really proud to support. They support over 12,000 people per year across Lincolnshire who are affected by a life-limiting or terminal illness. They deliver free, high quality, compassionate end-of-life care and support to patients, their families and carers. We’re hoping to raise a lot of money for St Barnabas this year, please help us if you can.
Kevin Scrupps, director at Pygott & Crone

The 40 for 40 challenge marks the 40th birthday of the charity and it’s a really flexible and accessible challenge, open to anyone who is able to take part. If you’re not familiar with the work St Barnabas do, please take a moment to read all about it on their website.

Ideas to get you started

Run or walk a total of 40 miles in 40 days
Do a good deed every day for 40 days
Bake and sell 40 cakes
Read 40 books
Give up something for 40 days such as alcohol, chocolate or meat
Do 40 push ups or sit ups every day for 40 days
Wash 40 cars
Pick up 40 pieces of litter every day for 40 days
Complete 40 jigsaw puzzles
Do 40 minutes of yoga every day for 40 days
Walk 12,000 steps every days for 40 days
Play 40 rounds of golf

We will provide a run-down on all the different kinds of activities people are doing on this page. If you are stuck for ideas, check out the St Barnabas for more!

How to join the challenge

You’ll need a JustGiving fundraising page which will be linked to our team page. Full instructions on how to set your page up are below.

By setting up JustGiving, any monies you raise on your own page will count towards our grand fundraising total. In our experience it feels good to be part of a team, working collectively to raise a lot of money for a worthy cause. We also want to recognise everyone who is taking part and so we will include a running total, and a list of participants on this page. We’d love to know what activity or activities you will be doing – why not include this on your JustGiving page?

These are just ideas, feel free to come up with your own, or a combination of the above. For further details on the challenge visit St Barnabas here.

JustGiving instructions

To join the challenge, go to our JustGiving page and click Join the team.
Login if you already have a JustGiving account otherwise sign up first.
Choose create your fundraising page, and fill in all the requested information (see the screenshots below for guidance).
Once created, please update your story and write what activity you will be doing – it will be prepopulated with a standard fundraising message, you can write whatever you want here.