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One Million Steps
One Million Steps: Building a Healthier World for Giving is a Web/Mobile App integrating health challenges with fundraising to drive social impact and change.
At its core is The Million Steps Challenge where participants, cover 500 miles in 100 days and fundraise for good causes close to their heart.
With integrated Bluetooth smart pedometers and management dashboards; you use your supporter’s journey to engage with your brand, message and mission and support good causes with our integrated fundraising platform
We see the challenge as a journey. And unlike other challenges, we feel it would be a huge missed opportunity for participants and organisations not to take important health and well-being lessons with them and to their communities.
Completing one million steps/500 miles in 100 days is amazing stuff but we want participants to meet the NHS and Centre for Disease Control guidelines for healthy living
So we provide your staff and supporters with videos and content covering:
– An introduction to mindfulness with meditation,
– Body conditioning and strength training exercises
– Pilates program to get that body stretched
“Where will your Million Steps take you?” is our mantra
Integrated management dashboards give organisations, from small community groups to the biggest corporates and charities, the tools to track progress and fundraising levels of users for greater management and engagement.
One Million Steps is the affordable, resource-lite fundraising challenge and platform for users, community groups, charities, gyms, GP surgeries to tackle the health and wellbeing crisis and build a healthier world for giving
Mission:
To harness and amplify the energy, passion and potential of People, Businesses and Good Causes and raise £100 million for social good in 5 years
Vision:
Create the No.1 Digital Eco-system for verifiable challenges with integrated fundraising, community engagement and corporate social responsibility
One Million Steps's Story
My background is in social housing and homelessness prevention.I worked with community groups and local businesses and sat on the boards of three Wales national charities and across Wales to advise housing-related organisations. And I saw how difficult it was for small and large organisations to resource, manage and launch events for fundraising. Critically, I heard from businesses that wanted to help community projects or international causes but also struggled to engage or resource events. And then, one day, with a deep knowledge of the pain points, I said to myself: “Can one person start something that can raise $ 100 million for social good in 5 years?”. This became my North Star and guiding principle. As the idea developed, we worked with a critical vision: “To create a level playing field, so the small community group and greengrocer to the largest charity or corporate all have the same powerful tools to launch events, hit wellbeing goals and support social good.” And we began to build a marketplace connecting health and wellbeing events and challenges with Corporate Social Responsibility, communities and charitable fundraising. We allow corporates, non-profits, hospital trusts, schools and individuals to connect and launch virtual health and wellbeing challenge events at scale and raise funds for good causes with an integrated fundraising platform.