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Push for better mental health
Australia’s largest mental health and fitness event, each June. Free to join, open to every fitness level, and when you pick Lifeline Mid Coast, every dollar you raise stays on the Mid Coast.
Dates for 2027 are still to be confirmed. The challenge runs for 24 days each June. Leave us your details and we’ll let you know the moment registrations open.
What it is
3,307 push-ups, and a reason for every one
Lifeline Mid Coast takes on Australia’s largest mental health and fitness event each June, and we bring our community with us. Participants aim for 3,307 push-ups across the month, a number that represents the lives lost to suicide in Australia in a single year.
When you register, choose ‘Lifeline Mid Coast’ as your charity. That is what keeps the money you raise here, funding crisis support, counselling and community programs from Kempsey through to Forster.
Three ways to join
Solo
Go solo. Push for better. No team needed, just heart.
Team
Invite people to join you, and track your collective stats and individual rankings.
Community
A collection of teams. Perfect for large workplaces, schools and sporting clubs.
How it works
No experience required, and genuinely no wrong way to do it.
- Register, and choose Lifeline Mid Coast as your charity.
- Complete 3,307 push-ups, or swap them for squats, sit-ups, anything that works for you.
- Track your progress in the app, and fundraise as you go.
- All fitness levels: beginners, regulars and everyone in between.
- Modify the exercises however you need to.
- Go for the full 3,307, or choose to do half. Every rep counts.
- The free app logs your reps and shares a mental health fact each day.
Where your push-ups go
Every dollar raised through Lifeline Mid Coast goes to crisis support, counselling and mental health programs for people in our own community: Port Macquarie, Kempsey, Wauchope, Wingham, Forster and across the Mid Coast.
13 11 14 is answered 24 hours a day, every day. Your push-ups help keep it that way.
The Push-Up Challenge is run by The Push-Up Challenge. Lifeline Mid Coast is one of its beneficiary charities. If life is in danger, call Triple Zero (000). To talk, call 13 11 14 , 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.