Give it Up

To get involved for Lent 2022 just follow these easy steps:

1. Decide what you want to give up for Lent: Lent’s a great time to kick bad habits. Why not choose something that you’ve been meaning to cut down on, or something that costs you a lot each week? Make sure to choose something realistic but also challenging.
2. Get in touch: Fill in the form below and let us know you’re up for the challenge, we’ll be here to support you with fundraising materials.
3. Complete your task: 40 days and 40 nights of perseverance and strength to keep yourself away from temptation.
4. Get sponsored: Ask your fiends and family to sponsor your endeavours, you can sign up on JustGiving to collect sponsorship easily.
5. Pay in your hard earned money: If you’ve collected sponsorship, or just saved your pennies from the thing you chose to give up, you just need to donate the amount. All your donations go directly to Chestnut Tree House, so we can continue to support children and young people with life-threatening illnesses.

It’s no problem if you slip up during Lent! We all make mistakes, and you’re only human.

You can always add on an unofficial extra day at the end of Lent if you want to make sure you complete 40 days in total. Or you might choose to add a penalty amount for each slip up, which you add to your donation.

Giving up something for Lent can be difficult, but you’ll be motivated to stay on track knowing that every penny of your donation goes to help local children with life-threatening conditions.

Most people choose something that they know is a bad habit, but find hard to resist. Things like; chocolate, coffee and alcohol are all popular choices. If you choose to give up something like this – you can simply save the amount you would be spending, and watch the amount rise up over the 40 days.

Or you could choose something that you’ve been meaning to cut down on. Sometimes going ‘cold turkey’ can help you in the long term to re-establish better habits and behaviours. For instance, you could give up eating meat, log off of Facebook, or decide not to watch TV in the evenings. If you choose to challenge yourself with something like this- why not put some money in the kitty for every day you’re successful. And for any day you give in to temptation you put in double the mount!

Others choose to use Lent as a time to start new habits – so you could try giving up; not going for a daily run/walk, not getting a full 8 hours sleep each night, or bad posture while sitting at your desk.