OVERSEAS CHALLENGES

CHARITY HUB

YOUR CHALLENGE EVENT PARTNER

Action Challenge helps charities raise funds through inspiring trekking, cycling, and overseas adventure challenges.

Our team handles all challenge logistics, participant support and event delivery, allowing your charity to focus on generating fundraising income and engaging your supporters. It’s low-risk fundraising, with no up-front costs or the burden of running events yourself.

We provide dedicated support, fundraising guidance, marketing assets and promotional resources to help you recruit supporters and maximise results

As a Charity Network partner, your supporters receive an exclusive £100 discount on most of our challenges, helping to increase sign-ups while generating valuable fundraising income for your cause.

Open Challenges

FOR YOUR SUPPORTERS

Joining our Charity Network is the simplest way to give your supporters access to our full programme of overseas challenges. There are no fees to join, no upfront costs, and no minimum participant numbers. Whether you recruit one fundraiser a year or twenty, your charity can benefit.

From Kilimanjaro, Everest Base Camp, the Inca Trail and the Great Wall of China to Iceland, Morocco and beyond, our challenges provide proven fundraising opportunities in iconic destinations. Supporters join our scheduled departures, receive expert support throughout their journey, and fundraise for your cause.

We’re the UK’s leading Kilimanjaro operator, having safely guided over 7,000 trekkers to the summit, and deliver inspiring adventures worldwide. Simply promote our challenges to your supporters and let us take care of the rest.

JOIN OUR CHARITY NETWORK

Joining our Charity Network is free, and means we will list your charity on our website and event registration forms. All Network Charities receive:

  • Charity listing on registration forms
  • £100 supporter discount code
  • Marketing materials and images
  • Ongoing support from our team

Step up to a bigger challenge

Fundraising challenges that stand out from the crowd! Tough Trails takes supporters beyond the traditional marathon, with epic endurance events in iconic destinations including Iceland, Jordan, & Morocco.

Perfect for fundraisers who have already taken on run or walk for your charity, Tough Trails combine adventure, achievement and fundraising into one unforgettable experience. 

Your supporters can take on 2 full or half marathons over 2 days, at their pace. Walk it, jog it, run it.

It’s their choice. 

The Tough Trails Half Challenge is 2 half marathons over 2 days.

Or step up for the Tough Trails Full Challenge, tackle back to back 42km marathons over 2 days. 

Perfect for past runners or walkers

If you have anyone who’s taken on marathon or half marathon, this is the perfect “next challenge” to up their distance and difficulty.

Your supporters can walk it, jog it, or run it. Tough Trails appeals to a broad range of fundraisers, from walkers taking on their first challenge to experienced hikers and runners seeking their next adventure. With flexible pacing and full event support, charities can recruit more participants and raise more from a single event.

Your fundraisers can focus on the trails, not on boiling up noodles for dinner. We include all transfers, accommodation, and delicious meals. Expect a fully signed route, well-stocked aid stations, and expert trail guides & UK medics.

Most people sign up solo, however we can (and often do!) welcome corporate teams onto these challenges. We offer a bespoke registration process, custom registration pages, and group booking discounts. 

For charities who commit to recruiting, and fill 20 or more Tough Trails places in a year, we offer a free charity rep place, so you can join your supporters on the trails (or simply cheer them on from camp!). 

Bespoke Challenges

UK, EUROPE, or Overseas

For many charities, a bespoke challenge event is the best way to maximise fundraising and build long-term supporter loyalty. Over the past 20 years, we’ve delivered hundreds of custom challenges for charities of all sizes, generating millions of pounds in fundraising.

From iconic overseas treks and cycling challenges to large-scale UK mass participation events, our experienced team can design and deliver the right event for your charity. You’ll benefit from a dedicated account manager, access to our Challenge App platform, and marketing support through our websites and social channels to help recruit supporters and maximise results. If you’re ready to create something special, we’re here to help.

CASE STUDY

GREAT ORMOND STREET
UK & OVERSEAS

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For the past 8 years we’ve partnered with Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital to deliver a suite of bespoke, open, & UK challenges for their fundraisers. We’ve cycled around sun soaked Ibiza with them a few times, trekked to the snowy summit of Kilimanjaro, and more. It’s been a fantastic journey, and we are proud to have enabled their supporters to achieve their goals whilst raising vital funds for the charity.

Some of our Bespoke
Charity Challenges

Marie Curie
Our annual bespoke international challenges for Marie Curie Cancer Care have seen hundreds of fundraisers explore the globe; cycling from Vietnam to Cambodia, trekking through the jungles of Borneo, and along the ancient ruins of Machu Picchu. We can't wait to hit the trails or our planned trips to Patagonia, Cuba & more in 2022 & 2023.
Marie Curie Cancer Care
Various Overseas Challenges
2012 - present
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With years of experience of bringing new challenges & events to market we love to work with small charity teams with big ambitions - helping them to launch events & build a new fundraising audience. This is exactly what we've done with Demelza Hospice with their successful bespoke China & Kilimanjaro treks.
Demelza Hospices
China & Kilimanjaro Treks
2018 - present
Cure Leuukemia
Cure Leukaemia are the Charity of the Year for Deutsche Bank, for whom we create unique international challenges annually. Working together we provide marketing literature, training guides, challenge information & host recruitment nights whilst planning the challenges to meet the specific brief & requirements.
Cure Leukemia
Jordan, Borneo & China
2018 - present
MAG
Over the years we've organised a large suite of challenges for Mines Advisory Group across Asia, building into the itinerary visits to projects & areas of work so that fundraisers get to see their projects in action. Cycling from Vietnam to Cambodia, Around Sri Lanka, Community Projects in Cambodia & more.
Mines Advisory Group
International Trips
2012 - present

BESPOKE CHALLENGE REQUESTS

If you want to set up a bespoke overseas challenge for your supporters, whether they are community fundraisers or a corporate partner, then we can do it. Just give us some details, and one of the team will be in touch to discuss.

Our Charity Partners

Many who take on one of our challenges also support a charity to help others, and to make it really count. Below are some of the 100s of charities we work with on our overseas challenges.

OUR CHARITY
NETWORK