FAQs

Join Run for autism virtual running event and challenge yourself - individually, with family and friends, as a team or a community. Run 40km, 80km, 120km or set your own goal. You can do it anywhere, at any time suitable for you. 

You can start tracking your training Ks now and then the actual challenge month is in October Tuesday 1st to Thursday 31st. Get active and raise funds to support children and adults on the autism spectrum.

Here's how to get involved:

1. Complete your sign-up by clicking here.
2. Personalize your fundraising page with a photo and share why you're running for autism.
3. Spread the word! Share your page with family, friends, and colleagues and raise funds.
4. Start training and have fun!

Run for autism is a virtual running challenge so you can do it where ever you are located in Australia. You can walk, jog, run or roll the challenge! The choice is yours! 

The Run for autism challenge is FREE! We encourage you to make a personal donation to your fundraising page to kickstart your fundraising - it will also show you are committed to the cause and inspire others to donate to you. 

Whatever distance you choose, you are bound to get fit and healthy, and feel amazing raising funds for the estimated 1 in 40 Australians on the autism spectrum. By joining Run for autism, not only are you helping contribute towards early assessment and diagnosis, but you are enabling Autistic Australians to grow up with understanding and support.

You can find out more about the impact of your fundraising efforts can make to the Autistic community here. 

When you register you can set your own goal distance to suit your fitness level or ability or select 40km, 80km, 120km's to complete within the month of October.

Becoming a Community Champion can be a very rewarding way of being involved in Run for autism. We'd love for you to join us. 

Taking on the Run for autism solo? Here’s how to get started:

1. Sign up:

   • Go to Run for autism and click ‘Sign Up Now’. Choose ‘Individual’.

2. Enter your details:

   • Fill in your name, email, contact info, postal address, singlet size, and why you’re joining.
   • Click ‘Next’.

3. Set up your page:

   • Choose your distance goal and fundraising target.
   • Upload a profile photo.

4. Invite friends pop-up (Optional):

   • Invite friends, family and work colleagues to join your team or skip this step.

5. Make a self-donation pop-up (Optional):

   • Donate to start your fundraising or skip this step.

6. Customize your page pop-up (Optional):

   • You can create a Facebook Fundraiser, add a title and description, share your story, and set a reminder for self-donation. You can skip these if you want.

7. When you finish registration you can:

   • Log in to your page using the ‘Login’ button at the top of the page.
   • Add a photo and story if you haven’t already.
   • Set your distance goal and make your first donation.

8. Share your page:

   • Share your fundraising page link with friend's and family via email, text, and social media.

You’ll get weekly emails with fundraising tips and Run HQ will contact you before the event! For more info, check out How It Works.

Joining the Run for autism as a Team or Community? Awesome! Here’s how to get started:

Step 1: Sign Up:

1. Go to https://www.runforautism.org.au/ and click ‘Sign up now’.
2. Select ‘Create a Team or Community’.

Step 2: Create Account

1. Enter your details - Name, Email, contact info, Postal address, Singlet size and reason for joining
2. Click ‘Next’.

Step 3: Set Up Your Page

1. Choose your distance goal and fundraising target.
2. Upload a profile photo.
3. Click ‘Next Step’.

Step 4: Create Team

1. Choose a team name (this will appear on your team page and socials).
2. Set a fundraising target (default or custom).
3. Decide if others can join:
• Select ‘Yes’ to allow new members.
• Select ‘No’ to keep it private.
4. Add a team profile image, title, and description.
5. Click ‘Create Team’.

Step 5: Create a Community

1. Click ‘Create a Community’.
2. Enter a community name.
3. Add an image, title, and description.
4. Click ‘Next’.

Step 6: Invite Friends (Optional)

• Invite friends, family, and colleagues to join your team or skip this step.

Step 7: Make a Self-Donation (Optional)

• Make a donation to start your fundraising or skip this step.

Step 8: Create a Fundraiser (Optional)

• Share your page on Facebook or skip this step.

Step 9: After Registration

1. Log in to your page using the ‘Login’ button at the top.
2. Add a photo and story if you haven’t already.
3. Set your distance goal and make your first donation.
4. Share your page link via email, text, and social media.

You’ll receive weekly emails with fundraising tips, and Run HQ will contact you before the event. For more info, check out How It Works.

Joining as a Team Member for Run for autism? Follow These Steps:

Step 1. Sign Up: Register as an individual at https://www.runforautism.org.au/.

Step 2. Join Your Team

1. Accept the team invite you received OR find your team on the website using ‘Find a friend’ at the top.
2. Click the ‘Join Us’ button on their page.

Step 3. Personalize Your Page:

1. Add a photo and your story.
2. Make a donation to kickstart your fundraising and show your commitment.

Step 4. Share Your Page:

1. Share your fundraising page URL on social media, via text or email and encourage your team mates to do the same.
2. Encourage your teammates to share as well.

Run Together -Work with your team to achieve your fundraising and distance goals!

You'll receive weekly emails for fundraising support and a run HQ will be in touch before the event! For more information on how individuals, teams, and communities can work, visit: How It Works.

Everyone is welcome to join this event, regardless of abilities. We understand that not everyone can run for their challenge, so please feel free to modify the activity to suit your needs.

Our goal is to ensure this challenge is a comfortable, safe, and enjoyable experience for you! If you're unsure about joining the event, it's a good idea to chat with your healthcare provider first.

For detailed instructions how to log your kilometres visit here. 

Remember the training kilometres you are now logging will be removed in the early hours of Tuesday morning on 1 October in time for your Run for autism challenge.  This means that everyone starts their challenge afresh!

You can manually add your training kilometres again if you wish. 

Chosen Community or Team kms are based on each member in the team running that distance.

If you encounter issues with syncing your page with Strava, Garmin or FitBit, we recommend a simple alternative and manually adding your kilometers to your dashboard.

To manually log your kilometers, please follow these steps:

• Log in to your dedicated page
• Navigate to your dashboard's 'My Fitness Activity'
• Enter your kilometers manually

The training kilometres you log before 1 October will be removed in the early hours of Tuesday 1 October in time for the challenge. This means that everyone starts their challenge afresh!

You can manually add your training kilometres again if you wish. 

Your fundraising will help Autistic Australians to receive vital assessments, access nurturing autism-specific education, specialist therapies, adult community services and support Aspect to create a more inclusive future for the Autistic community. Please click here for more information on Aspect services.

Donations of $2 or more are eligible for tax deduction.

Your personal fundraising efforts will be rewarded so hurry and start sharing your fundraising page! Check out the Rewards page.

Login to your fundraising page and go to 'Edit my page' - here you can change your Fundraising target and save by clicking 'Update details'.

The easiest way is to bank the cash and then do an offline donation to your page, this way it will reflect on your page. It's easy to to do:

1. Login to your fundraising page - click 'My donations'

2. Add an offline donation and the donor's details so that they will receive a tax receipt. 

3. Make a credit card/paypal payment to your fundraising page.  

After donating to Run for autism via Facebook fundraising, you'll receive an official donation receipt via email from Facebook's PayPal Giving Fund. This receipt confirms your donation to charity and specifies that you didn't receive any goods or services in return, and it is sent to the primary email address linked to your Facebook account.

Please note that Run for autism doesn't issue receipts for donations made through Facebook fundraising. If you have concerns about missing receipts, contact Facebook's help centre. 

Facebook donations are handled by a third party, so the donations will take longer to reflect on your Run for autism fundraising page. Rest asssured, they will show up! We thank you for your patience.

The Run for autism event isn't set-up to support fundraising via Instagram. If you create an Instagram fundraising page, donations may take longer to appear on participants' pages. Rest assured, we'll manually ensure that any Instagram contributions are accurately reflected on your page, and we thank you for your patience during this process.

Once your welcome pack is shipped, you will receive a confirmation email that it's on its way.
Please check your spam or junk folders to ensure you don't miss it, and keep an eye out for the postman!

We are not currently selling Run for autism merchandise to participants and supporters. This decision helps us avoid mass production, supports our sustainability goals, lowers campaign costs, and allows more funds raised to go directly to our vital services.

This year you can earn merchandise when you reach your fundraising tiers:

Sign up: Be one of the first 6000 and receive a FREE pair of run for autism socks

Raise $250: To earn your Run for autism singlet

You can find out more about our reward levels here: Rewards

Please call the run team on 1800 288 476 or email run@aspect.org.au.