Corporate Challenge Events

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Corporate challenge events

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We deliver high‑quality corporate challenge events for UK companies. Whether you’re focused on employee wellbeing, rewarding high performers, or running a company‑wide fundraising initiative, we’ll design an event to meet your objectives, reflect your values, and deliver lasting impact.

With 25 years’ experience delivering corporate challenges across the UK, Europe, and worldwide, our events have raised tens of millions for UK charities. We’ve worked with leading organisations including Dell Computers, Marks & Spencer, Harrods, DHL, BlackRock, HSBC, PwC, Citi, Dell, and Centrica.

From small teams taking on an adventurous climb, to bespoke multi‑day leadership challenges or large‑scale virtual events connecting people across your organisation, we’ll craft the right challenge for your teams and your chosen charity.

Bespoke packages

Tailored for your company

Unlike most event organisers, we have a full toolkit available to ensure that your corporate challenge event will genuinely work for your company. Our experienced team will lead the way managing the development of your brief, handling any administration, creating registration platforms, building a bespoke challenge website to help drive recruitment, and a tailored App based participant communications journey. We also conduct the route & risk planning stages – and then full operational delivery of the event.

Bespoke Challenge Events

If you want something unique, and shaped for your company from the outset – whether it’s hiking, running, cycling, swimming or a mix – in the UK, Europe, or overseas – for as few as 15 to a thousand colleagues – we’ve planned & operated hundreds of events for our clients, and understand the detail & energy needed to deliver low risk, great value, and unforgettable experiences!

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Challenge App / Website

We can create a Challenge App, or website, for a Bespoke Challenge, which houses all the info about the event, and will carry your company branding, and makes the whole participnt admin process & communication journey efficient and professional.

Virtual Challenges

We have a class-leading platform for operating any ‘Virtual Challenge’ – and the options are as good as your imagination! It could be individuals or teams, walking, jogging, cycling, swimming, head shaving, or whatever – with single offices or worldwide locations from 100 to 50,000 participants – and with a challenge ‘app’ to bring your corporate challenge event alive!

Hybrid Challenges

Virtual challenges are a fantastic and flexible way to engage large audiences – including suppliers & customers alongside colleagues. If paired with a parallel centrepiece ‘real physical’ event – there’s now an unbeatable ‘hybrid’ model available to really capture the imagination of colleagues!

Charity Partners

We deal directly with hundreds of UK charities – including all the major ones, and we fully understand how the sector operates – what works well as a fundraising challenge and what doesn’t – and how to go about getting all the details right first time.

CORPORATE CASE STUDY

Hospitality Rides

Overseas CHALLENGES

Our partnership with the Licensed Trade Charity has grown into a series of international Hospitality Rides, with challenges delivered across Kenya, Taiwan and Vietnam, and Patagonia planned next. Bringing together leaders from across the sector, these multi‑day cycle rides have raised significant funds – including over £400k from the Taiwan ride and more than £1.5m across the wider programme to date – supporting the Licensed Trade Charity and Only A Pavement Away in providing practical and financial support to people in hospitality.

CORPORATE CASE STUDY

Dell Computers - Inca Trail and Everest Base Camp

OVERSEAS CHALLENGES

Our partnership with Dell has most recently seen teams take on two iconic overseas challenges: the Inca Trail in Peru and Everest Base Camp in Nepal. These brought colleagues together across the business to share in demanding, high‑profile fundraising experiences. These treks have supported Dell’s wider CSR goals and their partnership with The Talent Foundry charity. The programme has been recognised at the Third Sector Business Charity Awards, highlighting the strength of the collaboration and its impact through challenge-based fundraising.

CORPORATE CASE STUDY

British Gas - Climbs Kilimanjaro

OVERSEAS CHALLENGES

Our partnership began with a flagship Mount Kilimanjaro challenge, bringing together a group of 30 colleagues, from call centre staff and engineers through to the CEO, to take on the trek together. The climb became a powerful shared goal, uniting teams across the business and generating fundraising for Make-A-Wish. It combined a world-class adventure with strong engagement, cross-company collaboration, and meaningful charitable impact.

CORPORATE CASE STUDY

Centrica 'John O-Groats to Van's End'

BESPOKE VIRTUAL CHALLENGE

An electric van was driven the length of Britian – Lands End to John O’Groats – visiting Centrica offices enroute, and teams of employees mirrored the route ‘virtually’ by clocking up miles walking, jogging, running, or cycling anywhere at anytime during the month. To make it inclusive & accessible – other non physical activities were awarded miles, so everyone could move along the virtual map – and help raise funds for the charity Carers UK.

CORPORATE CASE STUDY

Harrods - Kilimanjaro & Great Wall of China

Overseas CHALLENGES

Harrods were looking for inspirational events for a mixed group of colleagues to take on as a motivational challenge – and to raise funds for their ‘charity of the year’ – which was a partnership with NSPCC. Two ‘classic’ challenges in consecutive years provided that unforgettable journey – and real-life group bonding experiences which can never be replicated in the conference rooms!

More Case Studies

Deutsche Bank

We've developed the challenge programme in partnership with the charities Cure Leukaemia & Rays of Sunshine. Deutsche Bank wanted challenges that would appeal to a wide range of their staff, which means the right combinations of excitement, safety & accessibility. Mt Kinablu in Borneo, The Grand Canyon, Wadi Rum & Petra in Jordan, trekking the Fjords of Norway - and hiking in Cuba.

Overseas Challenges

2018 - present

Kinetic UK (WPP)

Since 2014 we've worked with Kinetic to develop exciting, challenging & engaging bespoke cycle rides. An opportunity and incentive for the Senior Management & staff teams to bond, whilst challenging themselves in new environments. Cycling challenges have included San Marino, Nice to Marseille, Catalunya, Portugal, Tour de France stages & many more.

Annual Cycle Challenge

2012 - present

DHL International

We worked with DHL to design and deliver a bespoke Kilimanjaro Summit Challenge - an exciting, demanding and deeply engaging expedition that brought senior leaders and staff together to bond, build resilience and achieve a shared goal on Africa’s highest peak. The programme combined expert preparation, a UK Leader and Medic on the mountain, and an experienced local expedition crew—ensuring a safe and unforgettable ascent for the team.

Kilimanjaro

2017

LTC

We’ve partnered with the Licensed Trade Charity to deliver a series of bespoke Hospitality Rides in Kenya and Taiwan — unique, challenging and culturally rich cycling adventures created exclusively for leaders and professionals from across the hospitality sector. These rides provide a powerful opportunity for teams to bond, reset and push themselves in spectacular landscapes, while supporting a cause at the heart of their industry.

Kenya & Taiwan

2023 & 2024

The Ultra Challenge® Series

For over 25 years Action Challenge has delivered challenge events across the UK, Europe, and worldwide. As the business evolved, the overseas adventure travel and tour division of the original company was transitioned into a dedicated organisation — AC Group Events Ltd, which now operates all Action Challenge overseas challenges.
The UK endurance events now operate separately as Ultra Challenge Ltd. Ultra Challenge runs multiple major UK endurance events each year, attracting tens of thousands of participants, and raising millions for charity each year.

Our Bespoke Challenge Service

We can organise any type of private corporate challenge event in the UK, Europe, or Overseas - and have 25 years experience of working with organisations of every size.

Get in Touch

Reach out if you’ve a question – or if your company or charity might like to work with us – and a member of our team will get back to you.

Tel: 0203 479 6584

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