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  • Final Week to Apply For (and Donate to) The Next Challenge Grant

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    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:…

  • Win an Expedition Bike For Your Next Trip

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    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…

  • Bikepacking Anadalusia

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    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…

  • Walking 600km Along Japan’s Tsunami-Affected Coastline

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    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…

  • Walking the Western Ghats with 4-Year-Old Twins

    Walking the Western Ghats with 4-Year-Old Twins

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    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…

  • Scoot the Loop: 150-miles around London on a kick-scooter

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    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…

  • 2018 Next Challenge Grant Open for Applications (and Donations)

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    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…

  • Walking the Tendrivska Spit

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    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…

  • 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…

  • 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,…