I am delighted to announce another inspiring list of adventure ideas for this year’s Next Challenge Grant.
Of the 208 ideas submitted, 41 have been selected to complete an application form to win a grant towards their trip. The winners will be announced in June.
For the many people that didn’t make it into the shortlist, I’ve emailed them to offer whatever non-financial help I can. I know from previous years that many such people still go on to complete their adventures regardless and I very much hope it is the same this year.
Thank you to everyone who donated to make this grant possible: from the 100-odd donations of £3 or more to the dozen adventurers who’ve contributed.
Here’s the shortlist…
2017 Next Challenge Grant Shortlist
As always, I’ll stress that I’ve boiled down each of these ideas into a single, pithy sentence which often doesn’t do justice to what’s involved and the stories behind the ideas. But hopefully you’ll get a flavour of the grand adventures people are planning.
- Swimming the Yorkshire coastline
- Stand up paddleboarding across Lough Neagh
- 40 nights’ bivvying in a year
- Cycling between and running up all of the Munros
- Walking the length of Long Island, New York
- Pedalling Lake Superior in a home-made boat
- Walking 430 miles along Japan’s tsunami-affected coastline
- Hiking and packrafting the Lofoten Islands
- Running 1,250 miles from Rome to home (London)
- Bikepacking the Lannmannalagur trail in Iceland
- 9 women Everesting in the Lake District
- Running the Thames Path over a Bank Holiday weekend
- Circumnavigating Menorca on foot
- Running the Three Peaks
- Paddleboarding the Lake District tarns
- Hiking the length of Portugal
- Running London to Brighton
- Cycling Camino de Santiago on a tandem
- 52 year old mum kick scootering the Hebrides
- Running around the Monopoly board in London
- Mother and children walking in the Western Ghats
- Bikepacking the GR247 in Andlusia
- Walking 500 miles in memory of a friend
- Cycling across Luzon, The Philippines
- Swimming across Lac Serre Poncon
- Mother and daughter travelling as far as they can on €5 a day
- Walking the length of the Tendrivska spit in Achilles’ footsteps
- Kayaking around the Isle of Wight
- Kayaking around Ireland
- Walking around Nanga Parbat
- Trekking to the source of the Ganges and Yamuna
- Father and sons trekking in each of the four seasons
- Hiking and paragliding across the Pyrenees
- 12 mini-adventures with a newborn baby
- Cycling the Faroe Islands
- Celebrating 60th birthday by cycling through Norway
- Hitchhiking across the USA
- Running a marathon at Marathon in Ancient Greek armour
- Hiking the Continential Divide Trail from Mexico to Canada
- A paddling expedition in the Hebrides
- Walking the Beacons Way
