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This November, we are asking you to Swim for Breast Cancer. Swim 9km throughout the month. Raise money for breast cancer research and improve your overall health and wellbeing at the same time. 

Anyone! Whether you’re an individual, a team, a bunch of mates, or an entire sports club – registering for Swim for Breast Cancer is easier than you might think. If you’re under 18, you’ll just have to get parental consent first (it’s a legal thing) – but use it as an excuse to get them signed up too! When you complete your online registartion form you'll be asked for parental consent then. 

It’s completely free to register and participate in Swim for Breast Cancer. 

1. Sign up – Sign up to swim 9km (or more) throughout the month of August.
2. Raise funds – Share your challenge far and wide and raise funds to support vital breast cancer reasearch to help save lives.
3. Swim for Breast Cancer! Track your km and aim to get yourself on our Swim leaderboard.

Swim for Breast Cancer is an online fitness challenge which runs for one month from 1st November to 30th November 2024. You decide where and when to complete your challenge.

Swim 9km (or more) over the month of November and raise money for breast cancer research. Wherever you live, whatever your fitness level, you can decide where, when and how you Swim for Breast Cancer. Setting a challenging personal goal will make it more likely others will sponsor you.

Every dollar you raise will go towards funding world-class breast cancer research. The National Breast Cancer Foundation (NBCF) is Australia’s leading national body funding world-class breast cancer research.

In the past 10 years, breast cancer diagnoses in Australia have increased by 21%. Each day 58 people in Australia are diagnosed with breast cancer and 9 people lose their lives to this disease. Each death is one too many, and research is critical to better understand, prevent, detect, treat and stop breast cancer and ultimately save lives from the disease.  

 To find out more about some of the research projects NBCF fund, take a look here. 

Raise as much as you can. Every dollar raised goes towards funding vital breast cancer research – the more you raise the more research NBCF can fund.

We have some really cool fundrasing incetives to get you motivated, the first 2,000 to get a donation on their page receive a FREE Pink Vorgee Swim Cap. 

The first 500 to raise $250 receive FREE vorgee goggles!

Login to your Swim for Breast Cancer account and head to your dashboard. Click on ‘Edit my page’ and update your fundraising goal.

The National Breast Cancer Foundation (NBCF) is Australia's leading not-for-profit organisation funding world-class breast cancer research with money raised entirely by the Australian public. Visit nbcf.org.au/research to read more about the ground-breaking research happening right now.

The best way to bank your offline fundraising money is through your online fundraising page with your credit card. Your total fundraising amount will then be shown on your page.

After registering, you will have access to your own personal dashboard where you can connect your Strava or Fitbit tracker app to the website which will synch automatically (just allow 24hrs).

If you do not have access to the tracking apps available, you can also manually add your kilometres to your page through logging into your fundraising page and looking at your dashboard.

For more detailed instructions on how to log your kilometres, click here.

Absolutely! You can start logging your training kilometres as soon as you sign up. However, all kilometres will be reset to 0km on 1 November, so we can Swim for Breast Cancer together!

We want to make fundraising easy, so we have some great resources to help you do that. Your best tool is your online fundraising page – easy to set up and easy to share. It is the best way to get donations and spread the word about your Swim for Breast Cancer.

From your fundraising page dashboard you can also download your social posts and other resources. All available to ensure your Swim for Breast Cancer challenge is a success.

Setting up a fundraiser from your NBCF fundraising page through Facebook is an easier way to share your fundraising page and reach more people. We have had lots of great feedback about Facebook fundraising as the easiest way for people to share their challenge with their family and friends and collect donations. 

Yes, if you have selected ‘National Breast Cancer Foundation’ as your charity of choice, we’ll receive the funds. However, there will be a slight delay.

The Facebook Donate button is a Facebook-owned feature, please contact them directly with any queries about privacy and security. However, you can view their privacy policy here: https://m.facebook.com/payments_terms/privacy

Definitely! We’d love to see what you’re up to. You can post your photos directly onto our Facebook and Twitter pages and tag us in stories and posts on Instagram with @nbcfaus. Don't forget to use the hashtag #SwimForBreastCancer and #I’mSwimmingForBreastCancer so we can like, share or retweet your post!

We're always here to help. Give us a call on 1300 803 551 or email us at sportsfundraising@nbcf.org.au

We are also available on our social media channels. Get in touch!