Charity challenge events

Your Charity. Your Challenge.

Create a bespoke walking, cycling or mountain event, or give your supporters places on the challenges we already organise.

Mental Health UK Glow fundraising-walk supporters gathered with their event banner
Mental Health UK · Glow fundraising walk. Read the story →

Ways to work together

Build your own event or bring supporters to ours.

Choose the model that fits your organisation. Event scope, supporter arrangements and fundraising responsibilities are confirmed separately.

Your own event

Create Your Own Event

Work with Challenge Central to develop a dedicated event concept for your supporters and organisation.

Tell Us About Your Event

Our challenges

Join Our Existing Challenges

Give supporters access to our organised public challenges with no minimum team commitment. Choose charity-funded places or fundraiser registration with the charity paying the agreed balance.

Explore Charity Places

Charities we’ve worked with

Challenges connected by purpose.

These organisations have previously worked with Challenge Central on challenge and fundraising experiences.

Planning your event

The event experience, carefully planned.

We work through the route, logistics and supporter experience with your charity, then set out the package and who is responsible for each part.

01

Planning

Start with your cause, your supporters, preferred dates and the kind of challenge you want to create.

02

Logistics

Work through meeting points, travel and the practical arrangements that connect the day.

03

Routes

Choose a route that fits your supporters' experience and gives them a meaningful goal to work towards.

04

Safety

Consider the terrain, conditions and participant needs as part of the event plan.

05

Participant experience

Help supporters understand what to expect, what to bring and how to prepare.

06

Event delivery

Bring the agreed route, timings and support together on event day.

07

Support team

Agree where leaders, checkpoints and practical support are needed for your challenge.

08

Event follow-up

Decide what event photography, feedback and participant follow-up your charity needs.

Participants smiling together at Birmingham Glow in 2024
Birmingham Glow · supporters together for a shared cause.
Challenge participants walking together through the Welsh mountains in warm evening light
A shared mountain challenge · previous Challenge Central event.

The fundraising experience

People. Cause. Teamwork. Achievement.

A powerful charity challenge is more than a route. It connects personal effort with shared purpose and gives supporters something meaningful to work towards together.

We focus on the people taking part, the cause bringing them together and the sense of achievement created by a shared challenge.

The Sick Children's Trust walkers together in London with Tower Bridge behind them

Charity case study

The Sick Children's Trust

A new London 25km Challenge let the charity lead its own supporter journey while Challenge Central planned and supported the walking Event.

Read the London 25km story →

Challenge ideas

Experiences people can rally behind.

View all challenges

One fundraising challenge—or a five-event journey

Give supporters a goal they can return to.

Charities can bring supporters together for one 3 Peaks Challenge or build a recurring fundraising programme around the complete 3 Peaks Series. Event scope and fundraising responsibilities are agreed for each programme.

5 Challenges 15 Peaks

Create a shared purpose

Bring people together.
For your cause.

A city walk, a cycling journey or a mountain challenge. We’ll help you shape the event around your supporters and your fundraising ambitions.

A charity walking group gathered beneath Edinburgh Castle
From the Challenge Central charity-walking archive.