Charity challenge events

Fundraising challenge events for charities.

Work with Challenge Central to create, plan and deliver a supporter challenge around your charity, audience and fundraising purpose.

Two charity models

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

A challenge built around your charity.

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

Discuss your event

Our challenges

Fundraise through an established challenge.

Explore public Challenge Central events that may provide an appropriate experience for supporters.

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Charities we’ve worked with

Challenges connected by purpose.

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

Action for Children Mental Health UK Trussell Trust The Hospice of St Francis Aspire Rethink Mental Illness Garden House Hospice Care Grief Encounter Crisis

What we handle

The event experience, carefully planned.

Exact responsibilities and inclusions depend on the confirmed charity event arrangement.

01

Planning

A practical event plan shaped around the approved brief.

02

Logistics

Coordination appropriate to the route and participant experience.

03

Routes

Route planning for the agreed challenge format.

04

Safety

Event-specific planning and delivery considerations.

05

Participant experience

Clear information and a people-first event journey.

06

Event delivery

A delivery approach confirmed with your charity.

07

Support team

A support approach shaped around the agreed event plan.

08

Event follow-up

Agreed follow-up after the event has been completed.

A group of challenge participants resting together on a mountain route

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.

Garden House Hospice Care supporters on a National 3 Peaks challenge

Charity case study

Garden House Hospice Care

Supporters took on the National 3 Peaks with Challenge Central, bringing people together around a demanding shared goal and the work of Garden House Hospice Care.

Read the story →

Challenge ideas

Experiences people can rally behind.

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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

Ready to create something people will rally behind?