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Step Up for Mental Health
Step Up is back!
Our walking challenge for May in aid of No Limits’ mental health services is returning for its second year. Last year, we raised almost £4,000 through the challenge. We’d love to smash that total this year.
All you have to do is walk, jog, hop, skip or run 8,000 steps for each day in May, raising money for our free mental health support for young people aged 5-25 in our area.
Sign up by 9am Monday 5th May to take part!
What am I fundraising for?
No Limits support children and young people aged 5-25 across Southampton, Hampshire, Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight with their mental health. This support includes crisis services, counselling, brief interventions, social prescribing, short-term emotional wellbeing support, youth worker support without needing an appointment, signposting and self-help.
All our support is completely free and adaptable to each young person’s needs.
Mental health and emotional wellbeing are the most common reasons for young people to seek help from us. In 2024, we supported 5,129 young people across all of our mental health services.
Four reasons to take part
May is the annual Mental Health Awareness Month, with Mental Health Awareness Week taking place from the 12th to 18th May this year.
It’s the perfect time to take your own action and raise awareness and funds for our vital services, and know that you have spent Mental Health Awareness Month helping children and young people who in are need of mental health support.
Mental health is a big issue for young people right now. NHS findings in 2023 showed that one in five young people aged 8-25 in England have a probable mental health condition. This number has been rising since 2017.
In 2024, we supported 5,129 young people with their emotional wellbeing, with the youngest being just five years old. That’s fourteen new young people coming to No Limits for support, every single day.
However, the funding for mental health support is significantly less than what’s required for the number of young people that are in need of it.
Waiting lists are rising and more young people are reaching crisis point as they wait for help. That’s why we need everyone to pull together to support young people to get the help they deserve.
By exercising every day, you are supporting your own mental health, as well as that of young people.
When you exercise, it clears built-up adrenaline and cortisol from your body. Adrenaline activates your ‘fight or flight’ instinct and cortisol is a hormone that forms part of your body’s stress response. Both of these things are present in your body at times when you feel anxious and stressed.
As well as clearing adrenaline and cortisol, moving and exercising increases your blood flow and produces endorphins, a chemical that makes us feel happy and positive!
By raising money for No Limits, your local young people’s support charity, you will be helping young people in your community to access life-changing and life-saving mental health support.
The young people we help might live on your road, shop in the same shops as you, or go to your child’s school. You might walk past them in the street. By stepping up this May, you are stepping up for them.
How do I take part?
1) Fill in the form below
Just fill in our sign-up form further down the page with your details.
2) Look out for our email
Look out for an email from fundraising@nolimitshelp.org.uk with further instructions.
Your fundraising rewards
Once you reach £50, we will send you a thank you pack to show our appreciation for your support.
The Thank You Pack includes a No Limits…
– T-shirt
– Tote bag
– Pen
– Pin badge
Share your challenge with us
Don’t forget to tag us @nolimitshelp in any social media posts about the challenge.
You’ll also be able to submit pictures in the step submission form. We’ll share the best ones here and on our social media!
You can also come along to our community wellbeing walk and a cuppa, taking place during Mental Health Awareness Week on Monday 12th May at 5pm, starting and finishing at our HQ on The Avenue. We’ll do a short route around Southampton Common then head back for coffee and cake! Look out for more details closer to the time.
FAQs
No, if you can’t do 8,000 steps one day, that doesn’t matter. You can make up for them another day, or you could save them up for a big walk or run on the weekend.
Yes, the minimum fundraising target for this challenge is £50.
If you are signed up, you will receive an email with a link to the form to submit your steps and pictures. We’ll send this link round each week so you don’t lose it.
You don’t have to submit your steps every day, you can do them after a few days or a week and make multiple submissions at once, but please only submit steps for one whole day in each submission.
The best way to see how many steps you’re doing each day is through a smartwatch, fitbit or smartphone.
When you submit your steps, you’ll receive an email with a copy of what you’ve submitted so you have a record of what you’ve done.
Yes you can! Just make sure whoever you are doing the challenge with is mentioned on your JustGiving page and is also signed up to the challenge.
Can’t take part but want to support No Limits?
If for whatever reason you can’t take part in our Step Up challenge but you still want to support No Limits, why not become one of our regular givers?
You can help local young people to access free, high quality support on a number of issues and help us to be here for the long term, supporting young people now and tomorrow.
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We offer services to young people who live in Southampton, Hampshire, Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight. For information about similar services local to you, please visit Find help | Youth Access. Youth Access is the umbrella body for organisations like No Limits and you can search here for a local organisation that can help you.
We offer services to young people who live in Southampton, Hampshire, Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight. For information about similar services local to you, please visit Find help | Youth Access. Youth Access is the umbrella body for organisations like No Limits and you can search here for a local organisation that can help you.
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