About Our Challenge
In June, the Ipswich Grammar School community is once again taking part in The Push-Up Challenge.
Now in our fourth year, this challenge has become more than just a fitness goal — it is an opportunity for our students, staff, and wider community to come together in support of something that matters.
Across the month, participants will work towards 3,307 push-ups (or alternative exercises), representing the number of lives lost to suicide in Australia in the most recent year of available data. Behind every number is a person, a family, and a story — and this challenge encourages us to pause, reflect, and start conversations that don’t always come easily.
At IGS, this is particularly important. Supporting boys and men’s mental health means creating spaces where connection, honesty, and support are normal — not something saved for when things feel overwhelming.
Throughout June, our community will not only be completing push-ups, but also engaging with daily mental health facts, encouraging one another, and building a stronger sense of belonging across year levels, friendship groups, and staff teams.
There are many ways to be involved — you can:
- Create or join a team within the IGS community
- Take part individually
- Support someone who is participating
- Help us raise awareness and funds for mental health services
Whether you are doing one push-up or one hundred, every effort contributes to a larger goal.
Together, we are pushing for better — for ourselves, our mates, and our community. 💪
Supporting headspace Ipswich
Young people aged 12 to 25, as well as their family and friends, can visit headspace Ipswich for support. headspace provides free, confidential health services to young people with key focus areas of mental health, alcohol and other drugs, education and employment support, and physical and sexual health.
headspace Ipswich is proud to offer young people in our community a safe and inclusive environment.
To connect with headspace Ipswich, call 07 3280 7900 or visit headspace.org.au/Ipswich.
State Of The Push-Ups
| State | Participants |
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Team Stats
| Team name | Number of legends | Push-ups | Funds raised | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| By person | Overall | By person | Overall | ||
Teams
To join a Team within this Community, simply find the Team below,
go to their page and click on JOIN US.
Thank you to our Sponsors
$1.5k
Qld Gas Services
$400
Rebecca
Great work!!
$250
Cameron Foote
$200
Ellen Jensen
Great job lads! Smash it! 👍
$200
Karen Krieg
Congratulations Patrick on supporting a great cause
$200
Jemani
$200
Premier Build Pty Ltd
$150
Jen
Go hard bud!! Good luck and always so proud of you!!👍
$150
Bartle Frere Bananas
What an amazing challenge! And a fantastic cause. Go Quinno!!
$120
Nanny/G’dad
Well done bud.
$120
Marisol
Good Luck Luka.. Love Tia Marisol 🫠❤️
$120
Matt Foote
Go well mate.
$120
Mum and Dad
Good luck mate
$120
Andrea Devaney
❤️💪🏼🩵
$120
Anonymous
A great cause! Well done.
$100
Warick Smith
Nice work mate!
$100
Will D
Such a wonderful cause to support. Best wishes
$100
Pat Russell
You better do them all
$100
Neil Brown
$100
Tara Manning
Hey Pax, Way to go buddy. Hope you smash out the push ups and your goal. Love Mum
$100
Kath Campbell
Get those guns going for a great cause! 💪 super proud of you mate. 💙 Mum & Dad
$100
Lynda Roderick
Goooo Logie!
$100
Linda Roderick
Love your work Logan! Good luck! 💪🏼
$100
Adam Forsyth
Don’t hurt yourself!
$100
Will & Sarah
Proud of your effort! 💪
$100
Lou Schmidt
Awesome to see you support such a worthy cause. Rick, Lou & Cooper Schmidt
$100
Rick Schmidt
We appreciate you choosing to do this for such a worthy cause.
$100
Michael Ody
Go Elliot!
$100
Vicky M-J
You can do it Harry!
$100
Simon Ting
$100
Anne Kay
Good luck Kings. 🥰. Go well.
$100
Catherine Masterman
1, 2 push a few, 99, 100!!
$100
Nanny and Grandy
Go Logan! 💪
$100
Clare Walker
Nice one Logie!!
$100
Rob Krause
$100
Carly & Harper
Mate - Beyond proud of what you doing and who you are raising awareness for. To know each push up has so much meaning behind it, leaves me speechless. Smash it out Nicko 🫶🏼
$100
Supplement supply co
$100
Gen Windley
$100
Rebecca M
Well done!!!
$100
Paul and Jenny Sime
Hey a great idea, Lions Clubs have a wellbeing aim and the fact sheets can be used to support students and the youth
$100
Janelle Winter
Good luck. Love nan and pop
$100
Sapna Nand
Good job! Xox
$100
Arjun and Aavya Maharaj
Well done bhaiya!
$100
Arvind Maharaj Arvind.maharaj@det.nsw.edu.au
Go Tajji Wajji. From January and Poppy
$85
Sandra Devaney
Good effort!
$70
Griffin Windley
$65
Rebecca
$65
Mum
💙💙💙
$65
Lara Russell
Good luck and well done! Mum and Dad. Xx
$65
Anonymous
Great work boys!!
$65
Andrew Joyce
$65
Elizabeth Quinn
Congratulations on taking part in this very worthy cause Jimmy.
$65
Marguerite Masterman
Go Tom!
$65
Lorna Shepherd
$65
Shelly Holzheimer
You’re a credit to your generation Pax, love your work!
$65
Anonymous
Smash it!
$65
Mum & Dad Kamo
Well done boys!
$65
Geoff R
$65
David Richardson
Keep pushing buzz!!!!!!
$65
Rujuta shah
$50
Mum & Dad
$50
Kodie Thornton
$50
Kitty Worgan
Good for you George. Very proud of you being a part of this worthy cause💕
$50
Mick Bridges
Go Georgeo!!!!
$50
The Bevos
Awesome work Georgeo! You got this!
$50
Poppy
Go Will !!!
$50
Charisse Farr
$50
Paula Groer
Good luck Archie
$50
Jane Brown
$50
Tailor
Go Jaclyn yay
$50
Rebecca and Jason
Go Jako!
$50
Zoe Eaton
Well done hun!
$50
Kathryn Campbell
Great effort Nick.
$50
Richard Forsyth
A good workout for a good cause.
$50
Jason Ferris
And one and two and three…breathe! Good luck from the Ferri’s
$50
Jilly
A very important cause Pax with a big strong core for you!
$50
SS
$50
Scott Campbell
Well done mate
$50
Jaclyn
$50
Dan & Susi Meyers
This is a great initiative, Clancy, super proud of you xxx Dan & Susi
$50
Pesath Dodangoda
I want to see push ups
$50
Kavindu Wickramasinghe
Lock in chief 🫡
$50
Paul Ross
Good luck Andrew
$50
Malcolm Condon
$50
jitendra agravat
$50
Howard Prestney
A great worthwhile challenge Alex and Co.
$50
Elders Real Estate Laidley
$50
Grandma Rose
Great job, for a great cause! Proud of you Nick.
$50
Nirmalie Wedisinghe
$50
Bindy Brandli
I'm proud of you Paxton
$50
Kirsten Schultz
You’re doing a great job!
$45
The Godfather
WELL DONE ARCHIE
$40
Dush Makadia
$40
Kunjal Dave
Very proud of you beta. Keep it up.
$35
Michelle Mitchell
Good luck from the Mitchells Will, great to see you #pushforbetter mental health!
$35
Shanee Lawrence
Oscar would love to support you in raising awareness for a cause that hits very close to home for our family
$35
Olly Richardson
Good luck Mr Coco.
$35
Bayliss Kiernan
Thanks for everything you. Happy to support
$35
Amanda Richardson
Go get ‘em!
$35
Julie Richardson
Good luck Olly,so proud of you
$35
The Knights
Go Harry!!!!
$35
Aaron and Sasha
Best of luck
$35
Matt & Amanda Hines
No half reps or head bobs, they don’t count 😂
$35
Sarah
More pushups less disney plus
$35
Dean Keep
Push hard
$35
Saane Ofahengaue
$35
Tracey Dunnett
Proud of you xx
$35
Leanne Montgomery
Awesome! Well done!
$35
Jane Edward
Good on you Pax
$35
Kulwinder Batth
$35
Andrew Trudgian
$35
Gundeep Virk
Great work. Good Luck 👍
$35
Ritika
Here you go Ishaan my baby
$35
Rajwinder Kaur
$35
katie weisse
Love you buddy, great job! Xx
$35
Jaskarn Shinh
$35
Kate Peters
Go Tinsel, smash those pushups! 🩷 tall aunty Kate
$35
Anita Haber
You’re going to be huge after all these push ups!
$35
Alison Boettcher
$35
Nicola Jensen
$35
Anonymous
$35
Bronwyn Johnson
Way to go Benny!! Awesome 👏
$35
Ash
All the best Reedhan!!
$35
Julie Catlin
Good luck Ayden love Julie and max
$35
Jennifer
Great effort Victor
$35
Saurabh
$35
Vaishali Chandorikar
$35
Katie Mann
Grow those guns 😉
$35
Anonymous
Good job, well done Archer.
$30
Sarah Pearson
Get it George 💪🏽 proud of you!
$30
Melissa Chamberlain
Well done Will - proud of you!
$30
PP Richos
Go hard Olls!
$30
Angelica Kamboj
Good job Mahey
$30
Anonymous
$25
Kelly Fepuleai
$25
Thomas Catlin
Go Ayden! 3307 push ups is an incredible feat!
$25
Angela Norton
Well done Tyler 👏
$25
Vicki Ross
Good work Andrew Keep pushing
$25
Grandma
$24
Dad
Your years of existence
$20
Celeste Graham
Go you good thing!
$20
Cody Mitchell
Good luck Will!
$20
Jack F
Go Will!
$20
Shannon Carter
Go you good thing!💪💪
$20
James Stoodley
$20
David and Janet Hines
Go champion you got this.
$20
Silverio de Oliveira
$20
Ellen Tobin
$20
Mum 2.0
$20
Cheryl Pettit
I know you’ll give this your best shot Olly x
$20
Anonymous
$20
Philpy
Good job cuzzo
$20
Pauline
$20
Paula Watkins
$20
Anonymous
$20
Charmaine Skerman
$20
Charmaine Skerman
$20
Anonymous
💪💪💪
$20
surinder aulakh
Good job
$20
Anonymous
Good luck!
$20
Anonymous
$20
Jane Ellison
$20
Georgia Campbell
Love you so much, so proud of you ❤️
$20
Bartholomew Foster
$20
Mellisa White
Amazing effort!
$20
Nat
Let’s go Nicko
$20
Kavita Rathod
$20
Nana and Popa
$20
Sonia.f
Nice work John proud of you 👏🏽
$20
Sarah Hunter
Way to go Beebs x
$20
Rajesh Shah
Good people make great society. I am proud you are a part of it
$20
Aaron Peall
Good luck with the push up challenge. Never give up
$20
Emily Pickwell
$20
Chirayu Joshi
Great work.
$20
Arun Soi
$20
Graine Fraser
We love you Benny!!
$20
Dawinder Virk
$20
Sally Ware
Good on you Elliott - great cause to support
$20
Sarah Thomson
Well done Elliot!! 👏🏻
$20
Couper Taylor
Ye cuzz I mean neffy
$20
Carla Martyn
Go girl
$15
Jordy F
Great work Lukey
$15
Vaani Verma
Proud of you, mate!
$15
Anonymous
$10
Ashan Gallage
Good job mate! Proud of you!
$10
Rukshan Pathirennehalage
$10
Anonymous
$10
Anonymous
$10
Aarna Gajjar
Great work….
$10
Dipika Patel
Great work .Keep it up .....
$10
Amandeep Pandher
$10
Anonymous
$5
Anonymous
$5
Anonymous
$5
Luke
Good work! Keep it up!
$5
Luke
Chest day everyday!
$5
Casey A
$5
Liza Jones
What an important cause your supporting
$5
Danny Peters
$5
Anonymous
676767
$3
Nivein henaka
heres to me myself and I
Teams supporting
Legends supporting 175
To be part of this Community, you need to be in a Team. Join an existing Team or create your own.
Dear Luke, Thank You for volunteering to take part in The Push-Up Challenge to raise awareness and funds for mental health support. we are attending a funeral tomorrow for an ex-work colleague, and we are grateful to support this well-deserved cause. Good Luck