Supporters raise money for Cancer Research UK by challenging themselves to do 100 squats a day across the month of February.
Once you’ve signed up, join the Facebook group dedicated to this challenge and click 'Join Group'. Once you're in, you can complete a form to get your free Cancer Research UK t-shirt, get tips for completing your squats, be inspired by other fundraisers and find out anything you want to know about the challenge.
Yes! If you don’t have Facebook, you can set up a Cancer Research UK online Giving Page and collect sponsorship for your 100 Squats a Day Challenge.
There’s no entry fee for this challenge, but we do ask that you fundraise for Cancer Research UK through your online Giving Page. All donations to the page will automatically be sent to us.
While we encourage everyone to complete this challenge in February, this is a personal challenge and you can start and finish at a time that’s convenient for you. If you can’t complete your squats on any given day, then you can make up for it at any point of the month and continue the challenge into March.
You can complete the challenge in any way that suits you. Some people prefer to build up their squats throughout the month. Others like completing 100 squats a day evenly across February. There are people of all levels of fitness doing this challenge, so everyone will complete it differently. The important thing is that you’re doing something that challenges you – it should be tough, but doable. However you choose to complete the challenge and raise money, you’ll be helping us beat cancer.
Don’t worry! You can make up the number of squats on another day or extend your challenge into the following month if needed. Complete the challenge in a way that suits you.
The only thing that matters is that you try to complete as much of the challenge as you can. Whether you complete the full 100 squats a day for the whole of February or not, the money you raise will help us to keep funding life-saving research. Whatever you manage to achieve, we can’t thank you enough.
We trust you! You don’t need to provide evidence that you’ve completed the challenge to us, but your friends and family will want some updates. Make sure you keep them posted on your progress and share videos, photos and your online Giving Page throughout February – the more updates the better. Supporters who regularly post about their progress raise 40% more on average.
We recommend using our squat calendar to keep track of your progress.
Tick off each day you’ve completed your squats and track the number of squats you’ve done so you can see your overall total.
There are many ways to squat and different types of squats for different levels of experience. There are some great resources online to guide you on how to squat with the correct form to avoid injuries. For example: Proper Squat Form: 10 Variations, Barbells, Common Mistakes, More
Complete this form to receive your free Cancer Research UK t-shirt in the post. Once completed, please allow 10 working days for your Cancer Research UK t-shirt to arrive.
If you haven’t received your Cancer Research UK t-shirt after this time, please contact supporter.services@cancer.org.uk.
When filling out the sign-up form, simply select ‘no’ where it asks if you’d like to receive a Cancer Research UK t-shirt. You’ll still receive an online Giving Page, be able to join the challenge group and take part!
If you have any further questions, please email supporter.services@cancer.org.uk or call 0300 1231022 (lines open 8am–8pm, Monday to Friday and 9am–5pm at weekends)
Unfortunately, returning Cancer Research UK t-shirts comes at a cost to us, so we ask that you keep hold of it for personal use (you could wear it in bed, at the gym or give it to a friend).
Sending out your Cancer Research UK t-shirt comes at a cost to us, so please only order one Cancer Research UK t-shirt per fundraiser to make sure as much money as possible goes towards our life-saving work. We ask that everyone requesting a Cancer Research UK T-shirt donates something to their fundraising page.
Alternatively, you can purchase additional t-shirts from our online shop.
You’ll be sent a certificate in your completion email at the end of your challenge. You can also access downloadable digital badges to shout about your achievement on social media. For this challenge, if you fundraise at least £15, you will also receive a pin badge.
Unfortunately, medals would cost us a significant amount, so we won’t be sending these out so we can spend more on our life-saving work.
Yes, under-18s can take part in this challenge, but we don’t market to them and any third-party platform forums (such as Facebook forums) are only available to people over 18. If under-18s are taking part, their parent or guardian must consent to the child’s participation, supervise the challenge, and accept responsibility for complying with the challenge rules. The child’s parent or guardian must register on the child’s behalf and if a child wants to raise money online and/or join a forum, the child’s parent or guardian must register for an online fundraising page and/or join the forum on the child’s behalf.
Participants must register as individuals, but you can then set up a team Giving Page to take on the challenge and raise money together.
Here’s how:
All your team will need to sign up to the 100 Squats a Day in February Challenge so you each have your own online Giving Page.
Once everyone has signed up, log into your account.
Hit the 'Create new team' button and follow the instructions.
Once you've created your team, you can send the team page URL to friends and family so they can join too!
Find more information about setting up a team.
Once you’ve created your team, you can either split up the squats between the group or you can all complete 100 squats a day across the month. You can also invite other registrants to join via our online fundraising site.
Using our Online Fundraising Platform is the easiest way to raise money. You’ll receive an online Giving Page once you’ve registered here:
https://activities.cancerresearchuk.org/100-squats-a-day-feb-2026
You can then share the page with your friends and family to gather sponsorship for your challenge.
We don’t set a fundraising target for participants, but we recommend that supporters set themselves a reasonable target of raising £150 or more.
The first tip is to log in to your page and take a few minutes to personalise it. You can add a photo, update the 'My Story' section to share why raising funds for this cause is important to you.
Second tip is, if you're able to, kick-start the fundraising by adding your own donation to your Online giving page. It can often help to get things going - it's a bit like making sure your friends aren't the first guests at a party.
And the third and final tip is to share a post on your social media channels (Facebook, Instagram, anything you use) to tell people about your challenge - and make sure to share the link to your online Giving Page in the post.
Remember, any donation can make a difference. As little as £3 could buy a pair of safety goggles to keep our scientists safe while they conduct their cutting-edge experiments.
Let us know how you get on by posting on the group, and we can offer further help if you want it. You've got this!
£5 can fund a lab technician for over 30 minutes, ensuring researchers are equipped with everything they need to beat cancer.
£10 can buy 250 plastic test tubes to help carry out cancer-fighting experiments.
£15 can buy agarose gel, which is a vital component for a technique that scientists use to measure the length of pieces of DNA.
£20 could buy antibiotics to keep the cells studied by our scientists free from infections.
Yes absolutely! You can raise your fundraising target on your online Giving Page at any time. Supporters who increase their fundraising target raise an average of 51% more than those who don’t, so why not head over to your page and raise yours!
We have plenty of fundraising materials and ideas to help you raise life-saving donations. Visit our fundraising hub for everything you need for your challenge.
This challenge is a fundraising initiative specifically developed by us, therefore all fundraising must go solely to Cancer Research UK.
Gift Aid is a tax relief allowing UK charities to reclaim an extra 25% on every eligible donation made by a UK taxpayer. This means Cancer Research UK can claim an extra 25p for every £1 donated, without it costing you or your sponsors an extra penny. For a donation to be eligible for Gift Aid, sponsors need to fill out the sponsorship form following the instructions at the top of the page.
