The Fit to Give app is the brainchild of businessman Peter Van Neste, who launched the piece of software locally on Tuesday and hopes to eventually take it to the UK and European markets.
Users can download the app on to their mobile phone or tablet and select if they want to walk, run or cycle and which charity they would like to raise money for.
They are then matched with business sponsors who will donate up to six pence for ever mile users walk or run and three pence for every mile cycled.
So far companies Sure, Healthaus and the Channel Islands Co-op have signed up as sponsors.
Jerseyborn Mr Van Neste (27), who returned to the Island last year after studying and then starting a business in Liverpool, said that since Tuesday 33 users had signed up to the app.
‘I was out for a run earlier this year and I thought wouldn’t it be good if as I ran I could raise money for charity.
‘I didn’t want to keep asking friends and family to sponsor me so the idea for this app was born,’ he said.
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The app has a 12-week initial launch phase in Jersey and after that Mr Van Neste plans to use the data gathered to launch iOS and Android versions of the app for the UK market.
He first came up with the idea in March and has been working on it since with local developers, added: ‘I launched it in Jersey but we are looking to expand into the UK and then into Europe.
‘We have three sponsors so far but the more the merrier.
‘The more sponsors we have the better chance we have of reaching our targets.
‘We are focusing on local companies at the moment but when we get to the UK we will try to get some large businesses on board.’
At the moment the app is only compatible with the iPhone 5S and above but Mr Van Neste said they were working on expanding the compatibility to include more devices.
The app can be downloaded for free at fittogive.co.uk.
Lost Kidz
In 2012 Jersey saw the worldwide launch of mobile phone app Lost Kidz, developed by three Jersey men, aimed at finding missing children.
It is a special programme that can be downloaded onto mobile phones and was thought up by St Ouen resident Stephen Fern and designed by a team from St Helier-based web developers E-scape.
The app was designed to send out an alert to those in an area where a child has gone missing and aimed to reduce the time a youngster is separated from their parents.
ID Check
Developed by Elian Due Diligence Services, ID Check was launched last year and was created in the Island in an attempt to cut the time and cost involved for regulated businesses to gather identity information from individual clients.
‘ID Check is a first-of-its-kind innovation with the potential to revolutionise the way regulated firms collect identity information from their clients,’ said Dan Le Blancq, director of Elian Due Diligence Services.
‘When we developed the app we could find no tools or services on the market that could satisfy this requirement, meaning that we’d need to adopt a different approach to gathering CDD in each of the jurisdictions in which we operate – an incredibly inefficient process.
‘That is, in part, what prompted us to develop ID Check.’
