Frequently Asked Questions

31 Miles for Nature is an opportunity to get active and fundraise for Greenpeace between 1 - 31st October 2025. It’s a virtual fitness and fundraising challenge, for you to complete in your own time in your favourite place in nature. You’ll use your personal fundraising page to ask friends and family to sponsor you for taking part, helping to raise £150 for Greenpeace.

You can tailor the challenge your way: walk, run, swim or wheel 31 miles, in a weekend, a week or in 31 days, just be sure to complete your miles before the 31st October 2025.

You can also link in with a whole community of people taking part in the challenge. Join our Facebook community group to chat with other challenge participants, share photos and get support from Greenpeace.

Registration is easy! It only takes 3 minutes. Simply enter your details on our registration form. This will automatically set up your very own fundraising page.

When registering you can opt to receive a T-Shirt and fundraising guide, which we'll send to you as soon as you've raised your first £10.

Registration will close at midnight on Friday 31st October 2025.

Fundraising pages will close at midnight on Thursday 20th November 2025.

Yes, we welcome team registrations – the more the merrier!

To create a new team: 

Each team member will need to register individually. Then, you create a new team on the CREATE A TEAM page of your fundraiser dashboard at any point. Just login to your dashboard to view this option.

Young people are very welcome to take part in this challenge, but under-18s will need a parent or guardian's consent. For safeguarding reasons, only an adult over the age of 18 can register for a fundraising page, order a T-shirt and join the Facebook group.

When registering, you can opt to receive a kids’ T-Shirt, instead of an adult T-Shirt, if you prefer.

We welcome participants from all over the world to take part in 31 Miles for Nature. The more, the merrier! However, unfortunately, we can only mail T-shirts and fundraising guides to UK and Ireland addresses due to the cost of postage and customs charges.

You can opt to receive a T-shirt and fundraising guide, or just a fundraising guide if you’d prefer, when registering for 31 Miles for Nature. You can choose either an adult or kids' T-shirt from a wide range of T-shirt sizes, from XS to 5XL for adults, or ages 3-4 up to ages 11-12 for kids.

If you opted not to receive one when registering but have since changed your mind, please get in touch at supporter.uk@greenpeace.org.

You can track your miles in various ways!

We encourage you to log your miles on the My Fitness Activity tab in your fundraising dashboard. This will allow your friends and family to see your progress as you complete the challenge. 

Follow these steps to manually add your activity:

1. Log in to your account and select My Fitness Activity.
2. Under Add activity, enter the required fields.
3. The logged activity will now appear on your fundraising page.

Alternatively, if you’re using a fitness app like Garmin, MapMyFitness or FitBit, you can link your fitness app to your fundraising page, and your progress will be tracked automatically, though please note that it might take 24 hours after you complete your activity for it to show on your dashboard.

If you start tracking your miles before the start of the challenge on 1st October, please note that these will reset to 0 at midnight on Tuesday 30th September 2025. This is so we can accurately track how many miles are travelled overall during our challenge month of October. 

Once you’ve raised at least £10 on your fundraising page, we will also send you your T-shirt and fundraising guide if you opted to receive one when registering. In there, you’ll find a handy mile tracker for you to tick off each mile as you progress through the challenge.

If you track your workouts with Fitbit, MapMyFitness or Garmin, you can link your fitness app to your 31 Miles for Nature account, so your distances will be automatically added to your activity tracker from 1st October 2025.

Follow these steps to set up your fitness app, in preparation for the start of the challenge:

1. Download the Fitbit, MapMyFitness or Garmin app and log into your fitness app account.
2. Log in to your 31 Miles for Nature fundraising dashboard.
3. Navigate to the My Fitness Activity tab.
4. Under the heading Connect your preferred fitness app, click your chosen app.
5. Follow the prompts to connect your fitness app account.
6. When you next work out, select start your workout in the app on your phone. Once you end your workout, click save and your distance will be published to the activity tracker on your fundraising page the following day.

If you have synced your app already but it is not working, please log in and reconnect it.

• Fitbit: You must start an activity and save it. If no activity is logged, then your cumulative activity will sync at the end of the day. If you are having issues, try syncing through BOTH your Fitbit and the Fitbit app on your smartphone.
• MapMyFitness: You must start your workout, stop your workout and then SAVE your workout.
• Garmin: You must start your workout, stop your workout and then SAVE your workout.

Your activity tracker will be updated each day with the previous day’s distances.

Yes! Every mile you complete will help Greenpeace fight climate change, and protect vital habitats like oceans and forests. So do this challenge in whatever way works best for you, whether that’s taking on a shorter distance, starting early, or finishing after 31st October 2025. Every mile is very much appreciated! Though please note that your fundraising page will close at midnight on Thursday 20th November.

Thank you so much for considering to fundraise for us. We know that not everyone wants to or can take part in a physical challenge. There are lots of creative and meaningful ways to take on a 31 for Nature challenge. For example, you could:

• Run an auction with 31 prizes
• Hold a bake sale with 31 cakes
• Have a party for 31 people
• Run a quiz night with 31 questions
• Do a sponsored silence for 31 hours

Please feel free to adapt these ideas or invent your own. What matters is that you’re taking part in a way that feels right for you, and we’ll support you every step of the way.

Meanwhile, we are also busy developing ideas for a new challenge that is not exercise-based and future fundraising opportunities that are inclusive by design. Stay tuned for more ways to get involved.

Simply enter your details on our registration form. It only takes a minute! This will automatically set up your very own fundraising page. Don’t forget to customise your fundraising page, including adding a profile pic, if you want to.

You can access your fundraising page by logging into your fundraising dashboard using the email address and password that you used to set up your account. At the top of your dashboard, there is a white box containing a URL. This is the link for your fundraising page. Click the green View button to visit your fundraising page.

If you have forgotten your password, simply click the Forgot password? link on the login page, and you will be sent an email with instructions to reset your password.

Fundraising pages will close at midnight on Thursday 20th November.

We are not using external donation platforms, like Facebook or JustGiving.

When registering for the event, a fundraising page will automatically be set up for you on this website. We strongly recommend that you use this website, so we can see your donation total (and send you a free T-shirt when you hit £10!) and so your donations link through to our leaderboards and the overall fundraising total.

If you have started collecting donations on a Facebook or JustGiving fundraiser, and would like to transfer these to your main fundraising page (on this website), please get in contact with our Supporter Services team and we’ll be happy to help. Head over to our Contact Us page for details on how to get in touch.

Your fundraising dashboard is an area that’s only visible to you. It’s where you can edit your public fundraising page, create a team, log your fitness activity, see your donations, claim your T-Shirt, and access our fundraising resources.

To find it, login here. Alternatively, login to your account on this website at any time, then hover over your account name at the top of the page and click Dashboard in the drop-down menu.

Fundraising pages will close at midnight on Thursday 20th November.

We suggest a fundraising target of £150 – this helps us to collectively reach our overall goal which will support our vital work. 

That said, we know everyone brings different experiences, networks, and resources to fundraising, and we never want fundraising targets to be a barrier to joining in. You can set a target that feels realistic for you, and you can change it at any time. Here’s how:

• Navigate to your fundraising dashboard
• Click Edit My Page 
• In the Update Your Fundraising Page section at the top of this page, change the target amount in the Fundraising Target box 
• Click Update Details (green button) to save your changes.

Our overall aim is for you to have a positive challenge event experience. While £150 is the target, every penny raised makes a difference. And whether you raise £15 or £150, we’re so grateful for your support.  

If you’d like some support with your fundraising, please take a look at our top tips below, and don’t hesitate to give us a call on 020 4525 3241 or email us at supporter.uk@greenpeace.org.

If you opted to receive one when you registered, we’ll send you a fundraising guide when you raise your first £10, with handy tips on how to fundraise. We’d also recommend checking out the “Share” tab on your fundraising dashboard. We’ve created some template emails and social media messages, so you can easily reach out to friends and family to let them know you’re taking part.  

Here are some other top tips to help you get started: 

1. Share the link to your fundraising page with your family and friends.
2. Add your fundraising page link to your work email signature.
3. Post your fitness progress on your fundraising page using the  activity tracker.

Once you have collected your sponsorship money you can:

• Post a cheque – made payable to Greenpeace Ltd – to Supporter Services, Greenpeace, Canonbury Villas, London, N1 2PN.
• You can also donate the sponsorship money via your fundraising dashboard. Navigate to My Donations and click on the green Add Offline Donation button.

There will be a short delay before most donations appear on your fundraising page. Please get in contact with our Supporter Services team if an expected donation still isn't showing within 48 hours. Head over to our Contact Us page for details on how to get in touch.

After the walking, running, swimming, or wheeling part of the challenge is over on 31st October, there's still plenty of time to fundraise! Your fundraising page will remain open for two weeks, and close on at midnight on Thursday 20th November, for you to collect any remaining donations.