Raise your heart rate for Heart Kids
The more you sweat, the more they get!
The Heartbeats 4 Heart Kids Challenge is an activity-based fundraiser to support HeartKids children and families across the country. Participate in any or all of the 3 fitness activities and your distances are calculated to earn points and get your name atop the leaderboard.
We want you to get fit, increase your heart health and have fun along the way. You can do whatever gets your heartbeat racing - that could be running, swimming, walking, dancing, yoga or even housework! We don’t care what you do, as long as it is trackable… All you need to do is move.
Setting up a challenge and a goal for yourself or a team is easy:
- Begin or continue your fitness journey to help your body, heart, mind and social conscious
- Get your family, friends, or work colleagues together as a challenge and have fun along the way
- Inspire yourself to go beyond your own expectations and reach harder
For every kilometre of activity completed in May 2023, you earn points. Every dollar amount raised earns even more points!
People’s motivation to challenge themselves physically can be linked to many things, but being able to use your body in a way that others will never have the opportunity to, is one of the strongest.
So raise your heartbeat for Heart Kids. It's simple - the more YOU sweat the more THEY can get!
Help support us, so we can support them
Eight babies are born with congenital heart disease every day in Australia.
HeartKids is the only national charity that supports affected families.
Demand for our assistance is growing every year. In the past 12 months alone, we have provided the following support to children diagnosed with congenital heart disease and their families:
- 1,700 calls made to check-in on our families
- 876 families supported in hospital
- 218 families provided financial assistance
- 1,400 face-to-face support occasions
- 5000 Heart Beads distributed to families to commemorate their child’s journey
We need your help so we can support Heart Kids throughout their journey.
- $20 provides meal support for a rural family while staying in hospital for their child’s care
- $50 helps our team to provide the necessary support and care to families during their hospital stay
- $100 helps subsidise families financially for a week through what can be some of their hardest times.
Are you up for the challenge? Think you can raise your heartbeat and raise funds while you are at it?
Join the Challenger – How it works
Link your Fitness App
Get an account and connect Strava, Fitbit or Map My Fitness to your profile page in your dashboard
Walk, Run, or Cycle
Record any of these distance-based activities from 1-31 May 2023
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KMs TRACKED19,214 |
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TOTAL PARTICIPANTS0 |
Rebecca Ghosn
Brendan Jamou
Anonymous
Christian Penshorn
ROBERT DONALDSON
Dan Walker
Gina
Noah Strach
Anonymous
Alex Bezzina
What next?
Once you have joined a team, signed up, paid your registration, set up your fitness and fundraising goals and page- you will be ready to start fundraising for your your fitness journey and your support for HeartKids. You can track your activity manually or through your fitness app to measure the impact you are making both to your health and for your support for HeartKids.
Points Equalisation System
The points equalisation system allows anyone to compete against each other regardless of the activity you choose to do.
Walking KM's = Running KM’s = Cycling KM’s
Don’t worry if you aren’t too active yet as your fundraising dollars earn points too!
The winner of the Challenge is based on the equalised points – whoever earns the most points in May wins!
| Activity | Distance | Points Earned |
| Walking | 1 km | 15 pts |
| Running | 1 km | 8 pts |
| Cycling | 1 km | 3 pts |
| Fundraising | $1 | 2 pts |
Where does the money go?
HeartKids leaves a real and lasting impact on the Congenital Heart Disease (CHD) community.
They seek to give every child, teenager, and adult in Australia with congenital or childhood acquired heart disease a fighting chance to live a long, healthy, and fulfilling life.
Their support is a commitment for life because there is no known cure. People with congenital heart disease face unique challenges for their entire life.
HeartKids is the only Australian charity to:
- Support, inform and educate families throughout their whole CHD journey; AND
- Advocate for the needs of all people impacted by CHD; AND
- Drive funding to unite researchers, clinicians, heart kids, families and communities through world-leading research and action programs; AND
- Harness the passion of the CHD community for greater impact.
- Every child, teenager, and adult in Australia with congenital or childhood acquired heart disease has a fighting chance to live a long, healthy, and fulfilling life.
Get motivated!
We know how hard it is to stay motivated, so throughout your journey we will be sending you tips on how to get inspired and keep moving. There will be stories from our Cardiologists on why heart health is so important and stories from our kids who have been through tougher things than you have ever imagined. The road to helping your body, heart and mind keep active isn’t an easy one, but like our heart kids who know the journey can be tough, there is reward at the end.
