Getting Started
- Start by creating an account here.
- Add your virtual balloon or balloons to your cart and pay with your debit or credit card. Your balloon purchase(s) will be confirmed to you by email.
- If you have been gifted a virtual balloon, you will be sent a unique ‘Balloon Activation Code’ by email, which you can enter to give you access to your balloon account. Please be aware that until you create and activate your gifted balloon, it is not in the race!
- Now you are ready to start decorating and customising your virtual balloon!
About Walk the Walk
Walk the Walk is a grant making charity dedicated to raising money and awareness for vital breast cancer and other cancer causes. We are also passionate about encouraging women, men and children to start walking as the easiest way of becoming more active, keeping fit and maintaining good health. This has now been recognised to play a key part of overall well-being and prevention against not only cancer but all disease.
Since 1996, with the help of all its supporters, Walk the Walk has raised an incredible £134 million - all the money raised on our challenges is raised for Walk the Walk. We then award grants to other charities and organisations across the UK, where we feel it will do the most good. Some of our funding supports research, important to all our future health. We are particularly interested in funding research into secondary cancers with the hope that before too long those with secondary’s will have the same opportunities of survival as those with primary cancers.
However, the past 2 years has been a devastating time for those with cancer. Consequently, due to Covid, our main focus at this time is funding essential physical and emotional support for those living with cancer now. We cannot underestimate just how valuable your support will be.
Buy a #WTWBalloon in support of Walk the Walk
We need your help now! Every balloon will make a difference, so buy yours for the virtual #WTWBalloon race today!
Cancer support services and cancer charities across the UK are desperately trying to recover from the Covid crisis trying to provide much needed care and support for those living with cancer.
Over the past 2 years many people with symptoms have been too afraid of Covid to visit their doctor or hospital for an early diagnosis. As a result, many are being diagnosed later and with more severe outcomes. Experts are warning that there is already a significant rise in secondary cancers being diagnosed, which could set progress in cancer treatments back by several years.
In exchange for your help and generosity, we want to take you travelling, with the promise of thrills, spills and excitement as your balloon/s Race Down Under, from the roof of the Sydney Opera House, who knows where you may end up!... Plus there are great cash prizes... Many thanks to Tunnock’s for generously donating our 1st prize and to our Mystery Donors for our 2nd and 3rd prizes …so let’s unite together and take this opportunity to make a difference for those that need your help now!
What your #WTWBalloon will buy
Cancer patients have had a devastating time during the pandemic, with many experiencing postponed and even cancelled treatments. The loneliness of having to isolate and go through treatments alone, has only compounded the anxiety and stress, and at a time when essential face to face care and support ceased to exist and suddenly the world became virtual.
Walk the Walk has committed to supporting and funding where it can, the much needed emotional and physical care so essential to patients on their journey through cancer and where it is needed most. To give an idea of costs;
£25.00 would fund a call to a helpline to receive advice and guidance, £55.00 would provide a one to one session with a counsellor or integrative doctor. £150.00 will pay for a lymphoedema treatment session on a mobile unit and £800.00 would pay for the mobile unit to go out into the community for 1 day, delivering lymphoedema treatments.
Whilst our Virtual balloon race is a lot of fun, it is also raising vital funds, for which we cannot Thank You enough!