Category: Next Challenge Grant
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Winners of the 2018 Next Challenge Grant
This is always my favourite blog post of the year: announcing the winners of this year’s Next Challenge Grant. I am always inspired by the wonderful ideas and warmed by the variety of people that come up with them. We have winners from Jamaica to Slovakia, Cameroon to the Philippines, and Paris to Leamington Spa.…
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Shortlist for the 2018 Next Challenge Grant
35 people have been shortlisted for a Next Challenge Grant. The full list is published below. Of the ~200 ideas submitted, 35 have been selected to complete a more detailed application form for the chance to win a grant and/or equipment for their trip. The winners will be announced in April. For the many people…
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Who is Applying for The Next Challenge Grant?
The Next Challenge Grant is aimed at those new to adventure, who might not have the means to pull off an expedition on their own. This year, to assess how well it is achieving that goal, I invited everyone who applied to complete a survey. The results are below. Included in the analysis are: Experience…
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Running Up Every ‘Munro’ Mountain in Scotland
At the end of last year, two women achieved a remarkable feat: they ran up 282 mountains, back-to-back over 77 days, running more than 1,000 miles on the way. Libby and Lisa were the biggest winners in last year’s Next Challenge Grant, getting an award of £600. Their challenge was to climb all of the…
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Final Week to Apply For (and Donate to) The Next Challenge Grant
There are six days left to apply for a Next Challenge Grant and there are six days left to donate to it too. Click here to apply Click here to donate The grant is a chance to win up to £800 and equipment for an adventure. It does not matter how big your idea is:…
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Win an Expedition Bike For Your Next Trip
Apply for The Next Challenge Grant and you could win the loan of a Kibo Expedition Bike. Bike builder Simon Stanforth is offering the use of one of his Stanforth Kibo Expedition Bikes to a lucky winner in this year’s Next Challenge Grant. Here’s some details about the bike: The Kibo is a 26″ wheeled…
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Bikepacking Anadalusia
Megan Cumberlidge’s photos have made me very jealous. She won a Next Challenge Grant and recently took her mountain bike to Andalusia, Spain. Her grant was only small – £50 – because the main thing she asked for in her application was kit. Specifically, she needed bikepacking bags. I have two full sets of bikepacking…
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Walking 600km Along Japan’s Tsunami-Affected Coastline
In 2011, an earthquake and tsunami hit the east coast of Japan and devastated much of its coastline. A huge effort has been made to repair and rebuild in the years since the disaster and part of that effort included the creation of a brand new walking route. The Michinoku Coastal Trail runs the along…
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Walking the Western Ghats with 4-Year-Old Twins
By far our youngest grant winners to date, Dyuthi and Druthi (4), have recently returned from a short walk in the Western Ghats, India. They went with their dad, Guru, and cousin, Adithi (8). [one_sixth]–[/one_sixth][two_third][box] The Next Challenge Grant Guru’s family hike was part funded by a Next Challenge Grant, an annual bursary for aspiring…
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Scoot the Loop: 150-miles around London on a kick-scooter
Last year, Next Challenge Grant winner Bex Band kicked a scooter 150 miles around the ‘London LOOP’. In her grant application, written in July 2016, she wrote: Myself and my husband have never done anything like this before. We are very ordinary – I am a secondary school teacher and my husband is an account…
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2018 Next Challenge Grant Open for Applications (and Donations)
The 2018 Next Challenge Grant is open for applications and donations. Click here to apply Click here to donate The story so far The Next Challenge Grant started in 2015 when I decided to give away all of the money that my website made from adverts. That £200 was matched by 100 public donations of…
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Walking the Tendrivska Spit
While I read through all of the wonderful applications we’ve received for this year’s Next Challenge Grant, previous years’ winners are out there doing their things. Today, we have a report from an expedition in Ukraine. The Next Challenge Grant is open to people of all nationalities, wherever they live in the world. Most winners…