Return your sponsorship
How to pay in your money
You've done it! You've completed your Race for Life and we’re incredibly proud of you. Make sure you return all the money you've raised – every penny can help us fund life-saving cancer research.
Here are the many ways you can return your fundraising to us:
Text to donate
Just £10 can make a difference - play your part
Donate £10 now, by texting RACE10 to 70180, to make a one-off donation.
It couldn't be easier to donate your money to help us take a step closer to a world where everybody can live longer, better lives, free from the fear of cancer.
Last year, 240,000 people didn't return any money – if all of them had raised just £10 each, that could have been an extra £2.4 million raised to fund our discoveries.
Using your Giving Page
The simplest way to return your sponsorship is by using your Cancer Research UK Giving Page. It's easy for your friends and family to donate and you can easily keep track of how much you've fundraised.
Your sponsorship will automatically be sent to us too – you don't need to do anything. If you haven't already set your page up then you can using the link in the email you received after signing up.
By phone
If you’d rather talk to someone in person you can pay with your debit or credit card over the phone by calling us on 0300 123 0770.
By cheque
If you’d like to send a cheque, please make it payable to “Cancer Research UK” and post, along with your support form, to:
Race for Life, PO Box 1579, Oxford OX4 9HX
Need another sponsor form?
If you've misplaced your support form or need another then you can download one here:
2024 Support Form (572.48 KB)
Gift Aid
If you have a JustGiving page then Gift Aid will automatically be added to your total.
If you are paying your fundraising online, by phone or cheque then we can only claim Gift Aid if we also have your support form. By sending in your support form, we will be able to claim an extra 25% for every donation at no extra cost to you.
Please send your support forms to the address above. If you need to, you can download a new support form using the link above.
Fundraising FAQs
Race for Life accepts the following payments:
- Cheques
- Postal Orders
- CAF Vouchers
- Other Charity Vouchers
- Foreign cheques
4-6 weeks at peak times: 1 week for the cheque to be received and sent to the bank, a further 5-7 days for the cheque to clear in the back, and a further 2 weeks for a thank you to be sent out.
At peak times it can take up to 4-6 weeks for cheques to be processed, if the cheque has not been cashed after 6 weeks, you may need to cancel the cheque and re-issue it.
We do encourage our participants to send their fundraising back to us as soon as possible so that the money can be put towards our live-saving work quickly. However, there is no strict cut off as to when you should send your fundraising money back to us and we welcome donations all year round.
How your money is helping us outsmart cancer
Every step that you take, and every pound you raise for Race for Life is helping to beat cancer. We don’t receive government funding for our cancer research. Your energy – and your money – powers our life-saving work.
We’re the only charity fighting over 200 types of cancer. And day by day, we’re finding ways to outsmart all of them.
