CoppaFeel! Challenge
A unique opportunity for students to lead a life-saving awareness campaign, develop valuable skills, make a real difference in their school community and compete for prizes!
What is the CoppaFeel! Challenge?
The CoppaFeel! Challenge gives students the chance to create and deliver a breast cancer awareness campaign in their school or college.
In teams of five, students will use their creativity, teamwork and communication skills to spread CoppaFeel!’s life-saving message. They’ll create a campaign that encourages students in their school or college to be breast aware, learn how to check their chest and use The Self-Checkout tool.
The team that drives the highest number of Self-Checkout users during the Challenge Week will be crowned the winners.
This year’s Challenge Week will take place during the 16th-20th November 2026.
Join hundreds of students making a difference
Criteria
To take part in the CoppaFeel! Challenge, students need to be:
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Based in a FE college or sixth form in either Greater London, Yorkshire & the Humber, Greater Manchester or Birmingham & the Black Country.
- Aged 16-19
- Be studying at a sixth form or college (Years 12-13 or equivalent)
Teachers - why get involved?
- Become a CoppaFeel! Champion Teacher
Support your students to lead a meaningful awareness campaign while helping to bring potentially life-saving health education into your school/college. As a Champion Teacher, you’ll act as a mentor and point of contact, empowering your students to drive the campaign while receiving support from the CoppaFeel! Team.
- Everything you need to get started
You’ll be provided with all the support you need from day one from the CoppaFeel! Team. We’ll provide a dedicated Teacher Toolkit packed with useful information, guidance and example campaign materials to help you support your students every step of the way.
- Designed to make participation easy
From campaign planning templates to awareness resources, our materials are designed to minimise workload and give students the tools they need to succeed.
- Enhance your students’ careers and enrichment experience
Taking part in the CoppaFeel! Challenge supports key Gatsby Benchmarks by giving students real-world experience and meaningful encounters with employers. Students build essential workplace skills, explore careers across health, marketing and communications, and plan and deliver a live campaign. It’s a simple, high-impact way to embed careers learning into your curriculum while boosting confidence and raising life-saving awareness.
You don’t need to be an expert in breast cancer awareness or campaign delivery. We’ll provide the tools and resources and your students will lead the way.
Students - why get involved?
- Develop skills for your future
Build valuable skills in communication, teamwork, leadership and project management whilst planning and delivering your campaign. These are experiences that can support university, apprenticeship and job applications.
- Make a real difference
Help raise awareness of the signs of breast cancer and encourage more young people to check their chests monthly. By spreading CoppaFeel!’s chest-checking message, you’ll be helping to promote life-long healthy habits of chest-checking with your peers.
- Win exciting prizes
Compete against other teams in your region for the chance to win fantastic prizes and be crowned the 2026 CoppaFeel! Challenge Champions.
- Get kitted out
Receive exclusive CoppaFeel! campaign materials and branded merchandise to help bring your awareness activities to life.
- Teacher support
Your team will have a Champion Teacher who will be there to help coordinate activities, provide guidance where needed and ensure your campaign can run safely and smoothly.
"I would definitely recommend the Challenge to others and would do it again, as it allowed me to get out of my comfort zone and help out for a cause that I feel is very important."![]()
Prizes
The teams with the most Self-Checkouts users in each region will win:
1st Place 🥇
- An iPad for each team member
- An exclusive virtual Q&A with the CoppaFeel! team where you’ll meet people from different departments across the charity and get a behind-the-scenes look at how CoppaFeel! works, how big awareness campaigns come together, and what a career in the charity sector can look like.
2nd Place 🥈
- A £50 e-voucher for each team member
3rd Place 🥉
- A £30 e-voucher for each team member
Teachers – register your interest in the Challenge!
Interested in getting involved with the CoppaFeel! Challenge? Register your interest here and we’ll be in touch soon with more info.
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