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 i... Read more
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 l... Read more
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 giv... Read more
I try to keep an up to date list of every expedition grant, adventure scholarship and challenge bursary available in the UK. My latest list is published in brief below and full details can b... 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
I am delighted to announce the winners of this year’s Next Challenge Grant. The full list is below. Last year we supported eight fantastic expeditions. This year we have managed to dou... Read more
This is a detailed article explaining how you actually go about getting sponsorship for an expedition. It covers the following topics: 1. Who’ll pay for your expedition? How likely is it tha... Read more
Last week I announced the shortlist for this year’s Next Challenge Grant. But before any of the applicants even knew whether or not they’d made that shortlist, dozens of them had... Read more
I am delighted to announce the 50 ideas that have made it onto the shortlist for this year’s Next Challenge Grant. The full list is published below. We had around 300 applicants and th... Read more
Applications for The 2016 Next Challenge Grant closed 10 days ago. 300 people applied and I have already seen a range of fantastic ideas amongst them. If you applied then you should have rec... Read more
Applications for The Next Challenge Grant close this Friday. As well as money towards your adventure, there’s lots of other cool stuff up for grabs from a range of kind sponsors. Inclu... Read more
Given the volume of applications I receive (about 1,300 in 2015) and the small number that we are able to fund (17 last year, 10 the year before), I thought it would be helpful to give some... Read more
