The Next Challenge

Category: Next Challenge Grant

  • Running the Channel Islands

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    The Channel Islands might not be the first destination that springs to mind when planning an expedition but it is eactly where Next Challenge Grant winner, Amanda McDonnell, chose for her adventure earlier this year. She ran 110 miles across the five main islands over the course of a week. Her story is below. In…

  • Running the Three Peaks

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    Next Challenge Grant winner Tina Page has just run the British Three Peaks: Snowden, Scafell Pike and Ben Nevis. She didn’t just run up them, she ran between them too: 500 miles in total. And, to cap it all off, she only started running three years ago. That fact somehow makes her feat seem both…

  • Is it Dangerous to Encourage People to Have Adventures?

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    An article appeared in The Times on Saturday that mentioned me and The Next Challenge Grant. You can read it here. At first, I was excited. It’s not every day that you get mentioned in a national paper and, even better, it plugged my grant. Then I got a bit annoyed. I thought the article…

  • Cycling a Beach Cruiser Around Costa Rica

    Cycling a Beach Cruiser Around Costa Rica

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    On first reading, nothing about ‘cycling a beach cruiser around Costa Rica’ sounds especially tough. It sounds like a fun trip, somewhere warm. The reality, however, is that Next Challenge Grant winner Dylan Haskin had quite an adventure. A month spent cycling 900 miles on a bike with no gears. Three days straight cycling uphill…

  • A thousand miles barefoot across South Africa

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    2016 Next Challenge Grant winner Thommo Hart recently walked and ran one thousand miles across South Africa, with his friend Simphiwe Ngcobo. They dragged carts filled with their supplies across tar so hot you could fry an egg on it (which they did). They marched through sand and over rocks with their feet rubbed raw,…

  • Walking 400 miles along Japan’s tsunami-affected coastline

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    Two weeks ago, we waved off the first two winners of the 2017 Next Challenge Grant: Libby and Lisa set off run and cycle up every Munro in Scotland. They’ve already ticked off 31 mountains and you can follow the rest of their progress on Twitter. This week another adventure begins: Robin Lewis, who won…

  • Running and cycling all the Munros

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    Two weeks ago I announced the winners of the 2017 Next Challenge Grant. There were sixteen winners spanning a whole range of adventures but the biggest award went to two fell running buddies: Lisa and Libby. The pair are planning to run up and cycle between every Munro in Scotland (a Munro is a mountain…

  • The Winners of the 2017 Next Challenge Grant

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    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 my own money. I then invited 100 members of the public to donate £2 each to double the amount I…

  • Cycling 2,000 miles through Europe

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    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 recently been diagnosed with a brain tumour. Charlie and Sam were partly inspired by their dad’s attitude to…

  • Cycling the Welsh Three Peaks

    Cycling the Welsh Three Peaks

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    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, however, to get buried by snow in a bivvy bag. Her trip turned out to be a little more dramatic than she’d anticipated.…

  • Shortlist for The 2017 Next Challenge Grant

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    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…

  • Running Around the Channel Islands

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    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 of winners from 2016 who are up to exciting things. One of those people is Amanda McDonnell who will be setting off later…