The Next Challenge

Author: Tim Moss

  • Meet the Winners of the 2024 Next Challenge Grant

    Meet the Winners of the 2024 Next Challenge Grant

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    I am delighted to announce the winners of the 2024 Next Challenge Grant. A wonderful spread of walking, running, cycling, climbing, swimming and skiing. Some in far flung places like Guam and Armenia, and others all done on by bus and train. And all uplifting to read about. Here they are in their own words……

  • Crossing the Alps on foot

    Crossing the Alps on foot

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    In their application, Next Challenge Grant winners and Zoe and Juliette described themselves as “passionate about hiking as well as sheep”. They were agricultural engineering students and decided to use their grant money for a 1,000 mile walk across the European alps, interviewing shepherds and shepherdesses on their way. The Next Challenge Grant is an…

  • 2024 Next Challenge Grant – Open for applications

    2024 Next Challenge Grant – Open for applications

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    The Next Challenge Grant is now open for adventures happening in 2024. Click here to apply. What is The Next Challenge Grant? The Next Challenge Grant funds people having adventures, big and small, anywhere in the world. It is particularly aimed at those who have not done much or any of this sort of thing…

  • Meet the Winners of the 2023 Next Challenge Grant

    Meet the Winners of the 2023 Next Challenge Grant

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    Following a Bulgarian narrow gauge railway. Walking from one white horse to another. A triathlon across Wales. A swim the length of Cumbria. A cycle through the Great Sambisa Forest. A cycle to every settlement on the Isle of Wight. These brilliant ideas and more from the 13 wonderful winners of the 2023 Next Challenge…

  • Next Challenge Grant 2023 – Open for applications

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    The Next Challenge Grant is now open for donations and applications. Click here to donate Click here to apply Now in its eighth year, the Next Challenge Grant has supported over 70 different adventures across the globe. It is open to anyone, anywhere in the world and you do not need expedition experience to apply.…

  • Meet the Winners of the 2022 Next Challenge Grant

    Meet the Winners of the 2022 Next Challenge Grant

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    Here are the wonderful people and ideas that won Next Challenge Grants this year. Apologies for the delay in sharing their stories. The 2023 Next Challenge Grant will open for applications very soon. Crossing the Alps on foot – Zoe Mitaut and Juliette Polle – £400 We are Juliette and Zoe, 22 and 24 years…

  • 2022 Grant Winners

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    Here are the winners of the 2022 Next Challenge Grant (in no particular order): Crossing the Alps on foot – Zoe Mitaut and Juliette Polle Climbing the smallest mountains in Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland – Joy Coppell Cycling Australia’s Bicentennial Trail – Chace Eldridge Walking Queensland’s volcanic rim – Sam Stevenson Fast-packing across…

  • Online Cycle Touring Festival – Starts today

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    The 2022 Cycle Touring Festival launches today with a week of free online events. Browse the programme and register at www.cycletouringfestival.co.uk Talks include: Fat biking through Columbia and Ecuador Britain’s 6,000 islands: which are the best for biking? Paralympian Mel Nicholls on hand-cycling the British coast 1,001 Cycling Tips: not all advice is good advice…

  • Motorbiking the Great Western Trail

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    Charity worker Bethany and music producer Alasdair won a Next Challenge Grant to complete the Great Western Trail on a motorcycle, riding “2UP” (i.e. two people on one bike). The Great Western Trail stretches across the south of England from Alasdair and Bethany’s home in Haslemere to Lands End, and their round trip covered some…

  • Paddling the Largest Lake in the Caucasus

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    Here is grant winner Tenny Adamian’s account of circumnavigating Lake Sevan, Armenia, on a stand up paddle board (SUP). Tenny won £200 towards her expedition from The Next Challenge Grant. The grant is open now for applications. Read more and apply here. Stand-up Paddle Boarding Armenia’s Lake Sevan by Tenny Adamian I heard a whistle…

  • Next Challenge Grant deadline extended: Apply now!

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    I have extended the deadline for applications to the 2022 Next Challenge Grant. It was originally 31st December 2021, but I am allowing an extra month for people to get their applications in. The new deadline is 31st January 2022. As a reminder, the grant is open to anyone, anywhere in the world. It does…

  • Cycle Touring on Shetland

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    We spent nine days cycling the length of Shetland with our two young children last summer as part of a five week tour of Scotland. This is Laura’s account of our time at top of the UK… Famous for ponies, puffins and knitting, Shetland is a popular destination for bird spotters and wildlife watchers. However,…