I am absolutely delighted to announce the winners of the 2017 Next Challenge Grant. I set up the grant three years ago to help people get into adventure. It started with me donating £200 of... Read more
Charlie and Sam King were winners of a 2016 Next Challenge Grant. They used their money for a big cycling trip across Europe inspired by their dad who had done a similar ride aged 17 but had... Read more
Cycling between, walking up and swimming on the slopes of Snowdon, Cadair Idris and Pen y Fan. That was the plan for 2016 Next Challenge Grant winner Heather Jones. She hadn’t planned,... Read more
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... Read more
Applications for the 2017 Next Challenge Grant closed last Friday. We’ll have to wait a while before we find out who’s going to win but, in the meantime, there are still plenty o... Read more
This year’s Next Challenge Grant has now closed for applications and donations. Applications: 208 people applied for the grant. Donations: 79 people donated a total of £412 which, afte... Read more
The deadline for applications to The Next Challenge Grant is midnight on Friday, 7th April. You can apply here. The application form is online and should only take about five or ten minutes.... Read more
Heather Jones is about to set off to cycle between, hike up and swim on the slopes of the Welsh Three Peaks. She was one of the winners of last year’s Next Challenge Grant and has very... Read more
This time last year, a 19-year-old Abbie Barnes wrote an article for this blog declaring her ambition to walk the length of every National Trail in England and Wales. Now, a year later, she... Read more
Background to The Next Challenge Grant Every year I put forward £200 of my own money as a grant to pay for someone else’s expedition. Several other ‘adventurers’ chi... Read more
We’ve had some big expeditions come through The Next Challenge Grant: running 5,000 miles around the coast of Great Britain and crossing Kyrgyzstan on foot to name two. But we’ve... Read more
The Next Challenge Grant is now open for applications. Apply here. The grant typically awards between £100 and £200 for expeditions and small adventures. It’s open to anyone, anywhere... Read more
