It’s Fitmas!! : Feel Good. Do Good. Make Christmas Special.
Fundraise for local children living in low-income families across Manchester and Salford this Christmas.
Sign up to a solo Fitmas challenge, or create your own with friends, family or colleagues.
What is Fitmas?
Fitmas turns your December workouts into something that changes a child’s Christmas.
Whether you’re training solo, part of a walking group, a member of a gym or boutique studio, or want to rally your workplace, Fitmas is a simple way to turn movement into meaningful fundraising for local children this Christmas.
Set yourself a challenge, find an organised event you have always wanted to do or create your own. Taking on the 12 days of Christmas you could do 12 workouts, 12 walks, 12 classes, 12 days of movement. Or walk the distance from Manchester to Lapland with friends or colleagues, sharing the mileage between a group, make it fun and have prizes for the fastest team. However you want to shape it. It’s Fitmas, enjoy your time making a difference and feeling good. Don’t forget to ask friends, family or colleagues to sponsor you along the way.
How it works
- Choose your challenge: go solo with a Fitmas challenge, or create your own with friends, family or colleagues
- Set up your fundraising page: it takes a couple of minutes
- Get moving throughout December: whatever suits you: walking, running, classes, home workouts
- Share your progress: bring people along with you and grow your sponsorship
- Your fundraising makes Christmas Special and supports Wood Street Mission: helping local children this Christmas
Fundraising ideas
Walk, run or cycle 12 times in December, or make it the distance from Manchester to Lapland!
Set your own “12”, 12 miles, 12 flights of stairs, 12 anything, have fun with it!
Take on 12 classes at your gym or studio.
12 days of home workouts, yoga, HIIT, whatever you enjoy.
Rally your walking group, gym, or workplace into a team challenge.
For Gyms and Fitness Studios
Fancy getting your members involved? We’d love studios and gyms across Manchester and Salford to help bring it’s Fitmas to life, whether that’s promoting it to your members, hosting a themed class, or setting your own studio-wide challenge.
Prefer to give directly?
Fitmas is all about fundraising, but if you’d rather make a straightforward donation, you can do that here:
Fitmas Marketing Materials
Download our Fitmas marketing material.
Good to know
Fitmas supports our wider Christmas Appeal, which has a donation deadline of Friday the 11th of December, so please aim to have your fundraising in by then to make sure it reaches families in time for Christmas.
Drop-Off Details
When: Monday to Friday, 8.30am–4.30pm
Where: Wood Street Mission, 26 Wood Street, Manchester, M3 3EF
If you are struggling and need support – please visit our Get Support page for more details.