FAQs

The actual challenge goes from 1-30 September but you can begin fundraising as soon as you register and finish setting up your personal fundraising page. If you’re taking part in the Move It challenge, any kilometres you walk before September 1st will be wiped before the challenge begins.

Remember September is a chance for us to remember those we’ve lost, and stand with those fighting pancreatic cancer. It’s all about remembering the ones we love and celebrating the memories you share.

Co-Founders David & Ben Wilheim, came up with the concept of this challenge-based fundraising initiative as a way of honouring their father and cousin who both passed away from pancreatic cancer. David says “I love the challenge because I get to think about my Dad every morning of September. That’s special!”

You can sign up for Give It Up and Move It, but you’ll get a separate fundraising page for each.

If you’re choosing to Give It Up, you can either select a vice to give up from the list we’ve suggested, or you can choose your own!

We’ve set three default fundraising goals you can choose from.

• $480 will help fund 2 days of life-saving pancreatic cancer research.
• $625 will help fund research to help diagnose 5 pancreatic cancer patients earlier.
• $1,200 will help fund a week of life-saving pancreatic cancer research

By pledging to raise $1,200, you're making a Purple Pledge and will receive these awesome benefits when you reach your goal:

• Exclusive t-shirt to wear during your challenge and beyond
• Purple Ribbon enamel pin
• 'Remember. Honour. Fight' wristband
• 2 x temporary tattoos including a Remember September logo, and Purple Ribbon
• Personalised certificate
• Purple Pledge exclusive badge on your fundraising page

Funds raised during Remember September directly support PanKind’s cutting-edge medical research program. PanKind is the only Foundation in Australia exclusively dedicated to pancreatic cancer with a mission to triple the survival rate by 2030 and dramatically increase the quality of life for those impacted by the disease. Learn more about the Research Grants that your donations help to fund.

All fundraisers who raise more than $71 to honour the 71 Australians who die from pancreatic cancer every week, will be rewarded with a FREE Remember September t-shirt, which we will mail to you.

Be sure to set yourself a high fundraising goal to encourage your family and friends to support your challenge to fight pancreatic cancer.

Click to login to your dashboard and update your fundraising goal now!

Yes! If you have a question or need to reach out, our fundraising support team here at PanKind would be happy to help you with any of your enquiries.

You can contact us by:

• Emailing us at rememberseptember@pankind.org.au
• Calling the Remember September support team on (02) 7207 6970

Search for the team name here and simply click “Join Team”! If you run into any difficulties, email us at rememberseptember@pankind.org.au.

Rather than going it solo, gather a few friends, your family or a group of colleagues and take on the Remember September challenge together. During the registration process you will be asked if you want to register as an Individual, Create a Team or Join a Team.

You can create a team during registration, or create one at anytime afterwards! Or if you’ve got a friend or family member who already has a team, you can join theirs too. 

If you're a member of a team but would like to take on a different challenge to the Team Captain (e.g. Your Team Captain is doing the Move It challenge, but you’d like to do the Give It Up Challenge), please contact us on rememberseptember@pankind.org.au and we’ll switch you to your preferred challenge, and your fundraising page will be updated.

Yes, your company can create a team and take part together. We suggest including your company name in your team name, so your team is easily recognisable and others know who you are. It’s best to nominate a team leader who can register the team first and then subsequently invite colleagues to register under that team name.

Your profile page includes your personal distance tally so you can track your distance towards your target. This is a great way to keep your friends updated on your workouts!

If you track your workouts with Fitbit, MapMyFitness or Strava your distances will automatically add to your tally.

Follow these steps to track your KMs automatically:

1. Download the Fitbit, Strava or MapMyFitness app and set up your account

2. Log in to your Remember September account.

3. Under the heading ‘Connect your preferred Fitness app’, click your chosen app.

4. Follow the prompts to connect your account

5. When you next work out, select ‘start your workout’ in the app on your phone. Once you end your workout, save your workout and your distance will be published to the tally on your page the following day.

If you have synced your app already but it is not working, please log in and re-connect it.

When using Fitbit, you must ‘start’ an activity and save it. Your daily steps will not automatically add to your page. If you are having issues, try syncing through BOTH your Fitbit and the Fitbit app on your smartphone.

When using MapMyFitness, you must ‘start’ your workout, ‘stop’ your workout and then ‘SAVE’ your workout.

Your tally will be updated each day with the previous day’s distances.

Remember, you can manually add your kilometers to the tally in your My Fitness Activity tab of your profile after registering. This is a great option if you’re using a pedometer or a different method of tracking your distances.

Follow these steps to manually add your KMs:

1. Log in to your account and select ‘My Fitness Activity’

2. Under ‘Add activity’, enter the date and distance

3. The number of KMs will now appear on your fundraising page!

Changing your fundraising goal is super easy. Simply follow these steps:

1. Login to your dashboard
2. Click ‘Edit My Page’ and you’ll see the ‘Fundraiser Target’ section
3. Update your fundraising goal and click ‘Update Details’

Your goal will then update and show on your fundraiser page.

One way of helping raise the profile of pancreatic cancer, PanKind and Remember September is through outreach to local media.

Cancer advocates can work on a local or national level, raising public awareness of the disease to help advance pancreatic cancer research, improve the quality of cancer care, and raise the national profile of the disease.

Local media are interested in your own powerful, human story so if you reach out to them, be prepared to share the story and background of how pancreatic cancer has affected you and your family. 

Chronic, heavy alcohol use has been known to increase the risk of some cancers. There are no direct links to sugar or caffeine.

The aim with this challenge option is to eliminate “added sugars” found in a range of foods like cakes, biscuits, breakfast cereals, confectionary, chocolate, soft drinks, juice drinks. You don't have to give up sugars that occur naturally in foods such as whole fruit and milk, unless you really want to up the challenge!

You can if you like but “decaf” doesn’t necessarily mean zero caffeine! The idea of the challenge is to give up caffeine altogether. Don’t forget caffeine is also found in some teas and energy drinks too.

Moderate consumption of these products is generally accepted to be healthy, depending on your individual circumstances.