Fifty miles in October, for Sands

Why I built it

Tommy is running 50 miles in October to raise money for Sands. I wanted somewhere he could log every run, and one page the family and his sponsors could follow, without me sending updates round.

What it does

Tommy logs each run and each donation on our family link. Everyone else gets a share page that shows his miles out of 50, a grid that fills in a mile at a time, how much he’s raised, how many days are left and how far he needs to go each day to finish. There’s a button straight through to his JustGiving page, which is where the money actually goes.

The bit I’m most careful about

He’s a child, so the share page only shows his first name, his miles and the total raised. No routes, no locations, no photos and no names of who gave what. The words on his side are written so a ten-year-old can use it on his own.

It’s built so next year’s challenge is one settings file to change.