300k Steps in April Challenge

Join our challenge; complete 300k steps from 1st - 30th April 2023 and help raise funds and awareness to support children with cancer - plus get a challenge t-shirt for your efforts*! 

Here's how you can get involved...

  1. Join our Facebook group here.
  2. Set up a Facebook fundraiser and share it with friends and family to collect donations.
  3. Once you've raised £10, order your challenge t-shirt (find out how in the group!).
  4. Walk or run 300k steps between 1st-30th April! 

We'll be posting any other information and advice you need to help you on your way in the Facebook group, so make sure to join as soon as you can!

Download our challenge step tracker here.

*T-shirts will only be sent once participants have raised a minimum of £10 on their fundraising page.



T&C's for the challenge and t-shirt giveaway can be found below.


1. About Us

1.1 The Candlelighters Trust is a registered charity in England & Wales, charity number 1045077.
1.2 Candlelighters provides emotional, practical and financial support to children and families affected by childhood cancer across Yorkshire, as well as investing in vital childhood cancer research. More information about Candlelighters can be found at https://www.candlelighters.org.uk/.
1.3 If you have any questions about a challenge, please contact us at [email protected] or call us on 0113 3229283 (Monday to Friday 8.30am – 4.30pm) and a member of the team will be happy to help.

2. The 300k Steps in April Challenge

2.1 By taking part in the ‘300k Steps in April’ Challenge, you may join to the Facebook Group ‘300k Steps in April for Children with Cancer'.
2.2 By posting any content (e.g. photos and videos) on the Facebook Group:

• you confirm that you own the copyright in the content and, if applicable, have all necessary rights and consents to include the person(s) featured in the content;
• you give Candlelighters royalty-free permission to reproduce and share that content as we see fit to promote fundraising or other activities for the charity; Candlelighters may remove any content posted by you if you do not comply with these rules.
2.3 You enter the challenge entirely at your own risk. Candlelighters shall not be liable for any injury, damage or loss to you or your property that might occur as a result of your participation in the challenge.

3. T-shirts

3.1 Challenge t-shirts will be sent out to participants living in mainland UK who have raised a minimum of £10 on their fundraising page, have completed the form to request one and provided the relevant details needed to fulfil their order.
3.2 T-shirts are subject to availability
and Candlelighters reserves the right to withdraw them at any time.
3.3 T-shirts are limited to one per person completing the challenge.

4. Use of your Information

4.1 By providing your information when you sign up for a challenge, we will use this information for the purposes of administering the challenge, and may also contact you to discuss your fundraising activity and follow up on your progress.
4.2 If you provide personal information on behalf of additional challenge participants, please only provide this if they have confirmed that they are happy for you to do so as we will use this information for the same purposes.

4.3 Where you have consented to receiving further information from Candlelighters, we will use your personal information to send you these communications.
4.4 All personal data held by us will be handled in accordance with applicable privacy laws and Candlelighters' privacy policy which can be found here.

Our stories

1 year on… The Candlelighters Supportive Care Research Centre
14-11-24Our stories • Posted by Gaby Stead
In the years since Candlelighters was formed, survival rates for children with cancer have greatly improved. But so far, little has been done to improve the experience of living through and beyond cancer. The side effects of treatment can be traumatic, permanent, and even deadly, not to mention the practical and emotional tolls families face. …
Candlelighters named children’s charity of the year!
08-11-24Our stories • Posted by Gaby Stead
In October, we were overjoyed when we were chosen as children’s charity of the year at the Yorkshire Children of Courage Awards! The awards began in 2011 to recognise the region’s bravest and most courageous children and young adults as well as the charities that support them. For almost 50 years, Candlelighters has supported children and families across Yorkshire through childhood cancer. From the hospital wards, to …
Outreach play specialists – Play in Healthcare Week 2024 
22-10-24Our stories • Posted by Chloe Vickers
Last week was Play in Healthcare Week! This is an awareness week showcasing the importance of providing play to children in hospitals. Our Outreach Play Specialists, Tracy and Rachel can continue this therapeutic play for children diagnosed with cancer within their own homes. Tracy says, “I feel very privileged to work with children, young people …
We’ve been shortlisted for two awards in this year’s Connect Yorkshire Awards!
08-10-24Our stories • Posted by Chloe Vickers
We’re delighted to announce we’ve been shortlisted for the Community Impact Award at this year’s Connect Yorkshire Awards. Plus, our CEO Emily has also been individually recognised in the Inspirational Leader category! The Connect Yorkshire Business Awards take place annually and exist to recognise and celebrate the exceptional contribution made by businesses and non-profit organisations …
25 Years of Play
25-09-24Our stories • Posted by Gaby Stead
As a charity, we’re proud to be trailblazers in pushing for and funding new and better ways to make lives better for children with cancer. We’re especially proud of the commitment we’ve given to funding play for children. For over 25 years, we’ve funded additional play team roles in the children’s oncology department at Leeds …
Neil Shaw: Candlelighters Chemotherapy Project Nurse Specialist  
19-09-24Our stories • Posted by Chloe Vickers
For Childhood Cancer Awareness Month this year, we want to highlight the difficulties faced by children who receive their treatment as an outpatient and their families. Whilst some children have to be hospitalised for much of their treatment, there are others who are able to return home and come back into hospital regularly for treatment. …
Candlelighters offers children respite from childhood cancer with weekend residential trip
23-07-24Our stories • Posted by Becky Pearey
Children’s cancer charity Candlelighters hosted a weekend of fun and respite at Lineham Farm for 34 children whose siblings face a cancer diagnosis. Around 150 children in Yorkshire are diagnosed with cancer every year. A childhood cancer diagnosis devastates the entire family. It can be especially difficult for siblings to process the emotional difficulty that a cancer diagnosis causes, …
Join our fundraising groups at their summer balls!
16-07-24Our stories • Posted by Gaby Stead
We’re delighted that two of our fundraising groups will be hosting fabulous fundraising balls this August. Ilkley Candlelighters and Knaresborough Candlelighters would like to invite you to their summer balls to help raise vital funds for children and young people with cancer. Find out the details below… Ilkley Candlelighters Dance the night away and raise …
Saturdays at The Square
28-06-24Our stories • Posted by Becky Pearey
Candlelighters have been trialling opening our family support centre, The Square, on Saturdays to increase access to our support for our families. On Saturdays at The Square, Lucy Peel and Jess Burton, two of our Family Support Workers have provided wonderful crafts, fun activities, and food offerings. Our Sarnies and Smoothies on a Saturday have …

Your stories

Annual charity football match in memory of Peter Woodmansey raises over £3,400 for Candlelighters!
09-10-24Your stories • Posted by Honey Best-Barton
This year’s match has so far raised over £3,400, adding to the total raised which now exceeds £33,000! LasBootham Old Scholars took on Wiggington Grasshoppers under 19s in an exciting and close-fought match to raise funds for Candlelighters. The match was played in memory Peter Woodmansey, who sadly passed away aged just 17 in December …