As a modern company working in the health and wellbeing industry it only makes sense that we would want to make a plan for a future that ensures not only the best for our own team, but also for the planet we all inhabit.
We've already made some important changes over the last few years, including a commitment to the Living Wage initiative in the UK, increasing our employee benefits, switching to green energy data centres, and ensuring we give back with support and donations to charities.
All of the team at Big Team Challenge are currently paid above the Living Wage, ensuring that the burdens of inflation and cost of living are minimised.
As part of our efforts to give back each year we donate to organisations we believe in. In 2025 we donated a total of £4000 to various charities.
During Orkney's 2022 fundraiser event, they chose to run an open step challenge for the people of Orkney, with the hope of raising funding for Cancer Research UK.
With a staggering £42 return on every £1 spent it was an unrivalled success!
LGBT Scotland ran their Purple Friday ‘Pass The Torch Relay’ campaign in February of 2022 and raised a whopping £25,000+. This meant a return of £25 for every £1 spent.
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We have used Big Team Challenge as a tool to fundraise for Aid for Education’s work in Rwanda a few times.
University of York saw an incredible return of £16 for every £1 spent on their charity step challenge. With more than 500 users taking part in the challenge they were able to raise over £35,000 in donations for their cause.
As a software company we're lucky that we don't have supply lines, transport and plastic waste to worry about, but there's other concerns you might not even realise. Things such as data centres; which are a growing concern for everyone right now due to their high levels of energy consumption.
This is why we work with a hosting provider in the EU which is a verified Green Web Provider.
Starting in 2022, we began planting trees on behalf of our customers to thank them for choosing us. It's our way of using some of our profits to give back, while also being a great tool for our customers to begin talking about their own green ambitions.
Working with Ecologi we've helped plant over 29,000 trees all around the world, from Peru to Mozambique. Ecologi's aims aren't to plant these as part of a carbon capture strategy, but instead are focused on re-wilding existing eco-systems and boosting areas that have been badly damaged by human interference.
In 2025 we have ambitious plans to launch our new free-to-use platform, World Walking, that allows individuals and small groups to get together and enjoy walking around the world.
We wanted to launch this platform for those that might not be able to afford Big Team Challenge and simply want to enjoy our fun virtual walks with friends and family.
Sometimes it's just a little easier to have a human talk you through pricing and all the ways you can customise your own step challenge.