Hawkes Bay Half Marathon
May
14
9:00 AM09:00

Hawkes Bay Half Marathon

The 2021/22 fundraising challenge has been decided and its a cracker! This year we will be out in nature in New Zealand looking to complete a half marathon in the beautiful Hawkes Bay region.

We will be doing the run in aid of GiveDirectly, who are a fantastic charity that transfers cash to households in developing countries via mobile phone-linked payment services. They target extremely low-income households and people affected by humanitarian crisis. Based on research from a wonderful organisation named GiveWell, they identified GiveDirectly as one of the most effective charities, in terms of the impact on saving or improving lives per dollar donated.

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Open water swimming challenge: 5km Swimathon!
Sep
26
10:30 AM10:30
Fundraising Challenge

Open water swimming challenge: 5km Swimathon!

So last year one of the challenges that Elliot completed was a 15km swim, which is one of the Swimathon Challenges that takes place in the UK each year to raise money for charity. The 15km is split into three 5km swims which need to be completed within 24 hours. This year he is moving outside to the open water and will attempt to swim 5km as part of Swimathon’s open water challenge in September. He’ll be doing this for our 2020 charity and you can donate here via our JustGiving page.

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Swimathon Challenge: 15,000m in one weekend!
Nov
16
to Nov 17
Fundraising Challenge

Swimathon Challenge: 15,000m in one weekend!

At the end of March this year we were inspired by the Swimathon that took place in the UK. Over 42 million metres were swam as so many people got involved in various swimming challenges to raise money for their charities. Over £2.1 million has been raised in 2019 already. This year they introduced a new swimming challenge - the triple 5K - which involves swimming a total of 15,000m over three separate swims in a weekend (200 lengths of a 25m pool three times). Elliot is going to give this a go at the end of November after of the 100km walk that we completed in September and raised £1,200 for Mind - the mental health charity!

UPDATE (19/11/19): Elliot completed the swim with time to spare! This event helped us to raise an additional £300 for the charity Surfers Against Sewage!

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Walking Challenge: 100km walk on the UK South Coast
Aug
31
to Sep 1
Fundraising Challenge

Walking Challenge: 100km walk on the UK South Coast

So we’re actually a little nervous about this one because not all that sure that we’re going to be able to do it but we’ll crawl if we have to. There are three distances for this challenge (25km, 50km or 100km) but we decided you either go hard or go home and we’re going for the 100km. The challenge is split over two days. We will be completing 55km on day one and 45km on day two. The target is to raise £1,200 for Mind - the Mental Health Charity.

UPDATE (11/09/19): We only went and bloody completed it!!! This was the most difficult challenge that either of us have ever completed in our lives by far but the struggle was made much easier by all your donations! In total we have raised £1216.66 for Mind and we are super chuffed with this as an outcome.

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