Open Challenges

Open Challenges are a fantastic way of getting people to raise money for your charity without having to recruit a minimum number of participants. We run a number of these challenges throughout the year for charities who prefer a lower risk option. Your charity may be too small to be able to send a full group of supporters on a challenge, or it may be difficult for you to commit to finding a set number of participants, in which case, Open Challenges are the perfect solution. We can either team you up with another charity to make up a full challenge group, or we can have as few as 1 or 2 supporters from your charity join with individuals from other charities, to all participate in one challenge.

Click here to see our forthcoming Open Challenges. If you are interested in promoting one of our challenges to your supporters, please contact the team on 020 7609 6695, or email us with your enquiry to events@actionchallenge.com and we will be happy to provide you with further details.

Fundraising Options

Self-funding:

With the minimum sponsorship option, participants pay the event deposit to Action Challenge and then pledge to raise the minimum sponsorship target for the charity of their choice. Once agreed with the charity, all fundraising is sent directly to that charity as and when it is received. At least 80% of the minimum sponsorship is usually required by the charity 10 weeks prior to departure, with the remaining 20% being sent to the charity within 4 weeks of completing the challenge. If participants have raised the required sponsorship, the charity will pay for the remaining balance of the participant's place on the challenge and then benefit from all the sponsorship raised above and beyond the event cost.

Minimum sponsorship:

With the self-funding option, participants cover the total event cost themselves and in addition to this raise as much sponsorship as possible for the charity of their choice. The event cost consists of the deposit, which is required on signing up to secure their place on the challenge and the final balance, which is due ten weeks prior to departure. All monies are payable to Action Challenge.