How Purposeful Miles Works
No sponsorship forms. No chasing pledges. You train and log your miles; where a partner company has pledged against them, those miles are counted and the pledge is settled to the charity it names.
Step-by-Step Guide
Create Your Free Account
Sign up and you have an account. There is no fee, no card and nothing to cancel.
Add Your Activities
Log a run, walk or ride by hand in a few seconds. Strava connection is built and in limited testing while our Strava Developer Program review is outstanding; no other app is integrated.
Log Miles That Count
Run, walk or cycle. Miles logged while a partner company's pledge is running are counted towards it.
Track Your Impact
Your dashboard shows the miles you have logged and what has actually been recorded against them — never a projection.
How Donations Are Calculated
Corporate Pledge
A partner company pledges an amount per mile for its people, for a set period, and may cap the total. That pledge is the source of the charitable funding — there is no membership fee and no pooled fund.
Counted Miles
Only counted miles accrue: an activity flagged for a suspicious speed, an outlier distance or a likely duplicate still counts towards your own progress, but is left out of the total a pledge pays against.
Activity Verification
Activities synced from a connected fitness app are provider-verified. Manual entries are accepted, checked against the same quality rules, and marked as manual.
Period Accrual and Settlement
At the end of a period we record what the pledge produced — miles counted, the pledged rate, any cap — as a contribution owed to the charity the pledge names. The company then settles it, and the payment reference is recorded against that row.
Transparency Reporting
No money passes through Purposeful Miles — a company settles its pledge to the charity directly and we record the amount, the miles and the payment reference. We will publish a public summary once there is a settled contribution to report.
How a Contribution Is Worked Out
There is no standard per-mile rate. Each partner company sets its own in its pledge, and a figure appears on this platform only where a pledge supplies it.
Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you need to know about how Purposeful Miles works.
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