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Sporty Santa

Be a Sporty Santa for Action for Children

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Step into Christmas in your free Santa hat and raise vital funds for vulnerable children.

Are you up for the challenge?

Grab your trainers and get involved in our charity Christmas appeal every step you take helps support vulnerable children and young people.

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Become a Sporty Santa

  • Walk 10,000 steps a day throughout December
  • Join a local Santa run
  • Choose any sporty activity that gets you moving

Sign up today and get a FREE Sporty Santa hat.

Become a Sporty Santa and you could make a difference this Christmas.

Step 1

Decide what kind of Sporty Santa you are.

Why not take a jolly walk with the elves? Or, join an organised race (perhaps with some reindeer)! Wear your free Santa hat and you can collect sponsorship for the activity of your choice.

Step 2

Sign up with the registration form below.

We'll send out your free Santa hat to wear while you’re taking part.

Step 3

Set up your fundraising page with our Just Giving campaign for Sporty Santa.

And start your festive fitness fundraising!

Sporty Santa Registration Form

Please fill out the form below to let us know you want to become a Sporty Santa.

Need some inspiration?

Check out events in your area on Run for Charity and make sure you sign up with Action for Children as your chosen charity.

Check out our top tips for a successful fundraising page.

Make a Christmas charity donation

You could help vulnerable children in need

Donate to charity this Christmas

We’re lighting up the UK with Secret Santas

Every time a donation is made, a star can be added to our map

Total donations

£35038

Secret Santas

1176

Your donations help us to support vulnerable children, young people and their families in the UK.

84p of every £1* we spend goes directly towards helping children, young people and their families. We make sure that every penny you donate goes where it will have the greatest impact on children’s lives. Donations from this campaign will be unrestricted and used by Action for Children for its general charitable purposes. That means they’re not spent on one project or one specific area of the UK, but where the need is greatest. Some of our unrestricted funding goes towards essential management and administration costs to make sure funding can reach the children and families who are most in need of support.

*Figure based on audited 2024/25 charity accounts that exclude subsidiary companies like commercial nurseries.