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Take part in Ovacome's Ovarian Cancer Teal Walk, our virtual community challenge, and help raise funds for our ovarian cancer support services.  

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How it works 

1. Set yourself a personal walking challenge. This could be doing a certain amount of steps or covering a certain distance daily, weekly, or monthly. Or even just a commitment to get out walking each day!
    
2. Click here to set up your fundraising page on our website with your target and why you want to support our work. Share your page with friends and family and ask them to support your walking by making a donation to your fundraising page. 
   
   
3. Get out walking and track your distance! You can do this using a free app on your phone such as Strava, a Fitbit, or we can send you a step tracker. We also send our Ovarian Cancer Teal Walkers an Ovacome t-shirt to wear while out on your walks to help raise awareness of ovarian cancer.  

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Sign up for the Ovarian Cancer Teal Walk here

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Why walk?

Walking has many benefits for both your physical and mental health and setting yourself a challenge is a great way of motivating you to get active, whatever your fitness level. All the funds you raise will go towards ensuring that we can continue providing support to anyone affected by ovarian cancer as well as help raise awareness of the disease.  

Hear what some of our Teal Walkers have to say:

“Hearing those three little words ‘you’ve got cancer’ takes you on a rollercoaster of emotions, with the inner chatter box going 24/7. Walking has been my salvation … It is something I look forward to every day and am able to get into the rhythm of walking and slow down the inner chatterbox going on inside my head.” - Allyson 

“I thoroughly enjoyed taking part. I want to thank Ovacome for the idea behind the challenge. In particular, the concept that anyone could take part, regardless of their limitations, and benefit from the increased activity was excellent. Personally, I’ve surprised myself by how much fitter I feel in many ways, despite the cancer. Better still, I’ve developed the walking habit.” – Cynthia 

“The Ovarian Cancer Teal Walk has given me the boost that I needed. My mental health has not been at its best for an awful long time. I now sleep better because of the fresh air. My Fitbit tells me my resting heart rate has dropped and that there has been an improvement in my health for the better.” – Ameena  

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If you have any questions or need any help in setting up your fundraising page please email us at [email protected] and we will be happy to help you. You can also give Imo a call on 07767 619462.

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Walk With Me Group

Walk With Me is a social group that aims to connect members of the Ovacome community who enjoy walking for exercise or who would like to take up walking as part of their recovery. The group connect virtually on WhatsApp to share friendship, encouragement, stories, and photos of their walks. We also have a Strava club that you can use to share your routes and congratulate each other. When you sign up to take part in the Ovacome Teal Walk fundraising challenge, you can opt in to join the Walk With Me Whatsapp group.

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Sign up for the Ovarian Cancer Teal Walk here

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