World Cancer Day 2025

Charity Walk the Walk takes huge steps in the fight against cancer

This World Cancer Day (Tues 4th Feb), cancer charity Walk the Walk is celebrating the £143 million raised by more than half a million fundraisers, over the last 29 years!

Walk the Walk has a proven legacy of helping to fund life-changing research and support for those living with breast and other cancers. Recently, Walk the Walk has awarded more than £92,000 to Breast Cancer Now. The grant will help fund the charity’s “Healthcare Professionals Hub”, a supportive network for all healthcare professionals caring for breast cancer patients. The Hub provides:-

  • On demand webinars to help continued professional development
  • Opportunity to join specialist interest groups, including those for secondary breast cancer and breast screening
  • Monthly e-newsletters

Nurses like Suzannah already benefit from the Hub:- “I have been a breast clinical nurse specialist for over 20 years. The support I have received as a health care professional has been invaluable. The bulletins and healthcare professions forums have been particularly helpful”.

A legacy of almost three decades
Founded in 1996, Walk the Walk is best-known for it’s innovative “MoonWalk” overnight fundraising events, when thousands of participants wear brightly-coloured decorated bras. This year, Walk the Walk is inviting people of all ages and abilities to sign up for its flagship MoonWalk London and help it continue making a massive difference to those affected by cancer.

Unite with Walk the Walk and millions of people across the world – sign up now at www.walkthewalk.org

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NOTES TO EDITORS

Walk the Walk

  • Walk the Walk is a cancer charity, which is passionate about encouraging women and men to become fitter and healthier and to take control of their own well-being
  • The charity is best known as the organiser of its flagship overnight MoonWalk fundraising events in London, Scotland and Iceland
  • Walkers taking part in these events wear the charity’s statement decorated bras or brightly coloured bra t-shirts, to raise awareness, as well as funds for cancer prevention and research, and for the emotional and physical care of those living with cancer
  • Walk the Walk specialises in creating walking challenges and treks ranging from 5km to 100 miles and more
  • Walk the Walk started the campaigns that Men Can Get Breast Cancer Too, and Anyone Can Get Breast Cancer, raising awareness for men and breast cancer
  • Walk the Walk has raised in excess of £143 million to date
  • Over half a million people have signed up to Walk the Walk challenge

The MoonWalk London 2025 and The MoonWalk Scotland 2025

  • The MoonWalk London. Midnight, Saturday 17th May 2025, starting from Clapham Common, London
  • The MoonWalk Scotland. Midnight, Saturday 7th Sept 2025, starting from Holyrood Park, Edinburgh
  • Thousands of women and men wearing decorated bras and brightly coloured bra t-shirts, raising money and awareness for breast and other cancers
  • Challenges: Full Moon (26.2 miles) or Half Moon (15.1 miles in London, 13.1 miles in Edinburgh)
  • Sign up now at www.walkthewalk.org (LIVE or VIRTUAL)
  • Discount offer: Register yourself and save 50% on entry for a friend