join the charge to tell cancer where to go!
The March Charge is a fun fitness challenge that has an enormous impact on how cancer is researched and treated. Just by walking or running for Cancer Council this March, and raising funds, your workplace will be helping us Charge ahead with cancer research.
Our team is here to help along the way with resources and support!
Let’s tell cancer where to go!
why should your workplace charge?
raise funds for life-saving cancer research
Contribute to life-saving cancer research that has increased survival rates from 49% in the 1980s to 69% today.
improve the health and wellbeing of your workplace
Regular exercise has many positive impacts on your employee's physical and mental wellbeing - including reducing cancer risk.
teams that sweat together, stay together
By getting together and exercising, you'll break down silos between departments and units, foster employee relationships, and improve team connections.
How it works
2. Set
Decide on your personal KM goal for the month of March.
3. Promote
Share your Charge and raise funds for cancer research.
4. Charge
Get active through March and track your KMs as you go!
How other workplaces Charge
Learn why they Charge and what it means to them.
Qantas Group
Our workforce is spread right across Australia, and the world, and participating in The March Charge gives our people a great opportunity to connect with their teammates from all over our business while developing healthy habits, and telling cancer where to go.
- Brooke Dwyer; Qantas Group Wellbeing Manager
Raine & Horne Helensburgh
We saw The March Charge pop up on Facebook and all thought 'what a great way to help others'.
We currently have 5 staff members, and we're all involved. Together we would like to raise at least $3,000 and complete at least 85kms but at the rate, we are going with donations and motivation I hope we can smash this!
- Tracey and the Raine & Horne Helensburgh team
Measuring your impact
Custom dashboard with an overview of employee engagement
You can share a link to this dashboard in your staff communications to highlight your workplace's impact.
Same workplace, different teams
Within your workplace, you can also create multiple fundraising teams so you can get some friendly competition happening between departments, teams, or offices!
Each team can set their own fundraising target, and all funds they raise will show on your central workplace dashboard.
ideas to get your workplace charging
office run club
Run clubs are taking the world by storm, isn't it about time your office had one?
lunch time walks
No more lunch at the desk! Get everyone up and moving, and break the day up.
walk & talk
Turn your next meeting from "let's take this offline" into "let's take this outside!"
a literal coffee run
Next time you need your caffeine fix, jog to that cafe a biiiiittt further up the road.
group fitness class
Got a gym junkie in the team? Invite them to lead a lunchtime exercise class!
walk to work
Encourage your staff to get off the bus one stop earlier and walk to work.
Meet the Cancer Council NSW Stepidemiologists team
You don’t have to be fit to get involved. The March Charge is all about being more physically active than you normally would be. Even spending as little as 10% more time each week doing the exercise you love best (or loath least) is enough to result in long-term healthy habit change and long-term health improvements.
We’re all looking forward to the chance to Charge together again this year.
- Marianne, Team Captain
