Coldest Night of the Year

Please freeze (your butt off) with us... 

On Saturday, February 23rd, 2013, Ray of Hope will once again host the Coldest Night of the Year, a 5 & 10km walk in support of Ray of Hope Community Centre’s work with the hungry, homeless and hurting in Kitchener/Waterloo.  

Last year we had 482 walkers but this year we are hoping for 600 toque-wearing, cold-loving friends to join us!  Why not consider joining a team, or better yet, become “team captain” and create/recruit your own team.  

For more detailed info: www.coldestnightoftheyear.org

How To START a Team for Ray of Hope

Step 1: Go to www.coldestnightoftheyear.org and select start a team from the yellow navigation tabs on left side of the page.

Step 2: Select the city you are walking in and click next.

Step 3: Agree to the waiver form and click next.

Step 4: Select create a team from the three yellow buttons. You can name your team (something fun!), write a short blurb to describe it and then - this is really important...

Step 5: Choose your charity – at the very bottom of page click on the drop down menu bar and click on Kitchener/Waterloo – Ray of Hope. That will connect all your team’s fundraising activity to us. Yeah!

Once you’ve completed registering, you will see your team and your name in the master list of supporting teams on our partner page located at www.coldestnightoftheyear.org/partners (Note: it may not show up instantly – they upload a couple times a day).

How to JOIN a TEAM and walk for Ray of Hope

Step 1: Go to www.coldestnightoftheyear.org and select register to walk from the yellow navigation tabs on left side of home page.

Step 2: Select the city you are walking in and click next.

Step 3: Agree to the waiver form and click next.

Step 4: Select join a team or register as an individual:

If you had a friend ask you to walk on their team, click join a team where you can search for your friend or team by name. If you can’t find them, no worries, you can join them later after you register.

If you are walking as individual, no problem – but feel free to join our Ray of Hope Team - where all the fun-loving individual walkers go.

Step 5: Start asking! Use the online fundraising system. Email your friends personal requests for support. It’s a proven fact: walkers who post a picture, explain why they are walking and email their friends raise 10X more on average than those who don’t.