Welcome to our Events & Challenges pages!
Have a look at some of the challenge fundraising events below:
If taking part in an organised event doesn’t feel right for you why not set yourself your own challenge, either solo or with friends or work colleagues. We’ve had people sign up to walk the Southwest coast path, climb Ben Nevis, kayak 26 miles (the length of a marathon), cycle coast to coast and even play a marathon table tennis challenge. See the resources below:
Have a look at some of the challenge fundraising events taking place around the country in the coming months. We’ve listed some organised by third parties on our events pages, If anything takes your fancy, please do check current advice with the event organisers as the information may well have changed since our update. We’ve also included some overseas challenges. Planning a ‘once in a lifetime’ challenge could be just what you need!
Also becoming popular are ‘virtual challenges‘. One of our supporters, Nick, ran a total of 500 miles over a number of months, in his local area, and plotted his progress against a map of our clinics, as if he was running from one clinic to the next – the mapped distance between all clinics being 500 miles! Since Nick’s exploits we’ve signed up to a new fundraising platform called Enthuse that has Strava integrated into it so creating these types of challenges now are even easier. The platform also has ‘off the peg’ virtual journeys you can try: we’ve signed up to the London to Brighton Challenge – the distance of which is around 50 miles that you can do as a walk, cycle or run – in your own location – at your own pace, as part of your regular exercise routine. Enthuse is also great to use to set up a team challenge which is ideal for work place fundraising so if that appeals, please get in touch & we’ll work with you to set one up.
If you are a ‘veteran’ challenger eventer and already have a Just Giving page you may prefer to use this platform. Search for Vison Care on the Just Giving platform.
For helping with getting started with your fundraising please download our ‘Challenges Welcome & Resources pack’. When you’ve had a look, please get in touch and tell us your plans. Thank you for choosing to fundraise for Vision Care! .. Good luck .. & enjoy!
Alison, Community & Corporate Fundraiser. alison.gordon@vchp.org.uk
or email alison.gordon@vchp.org.uk
Note regarding organised challenge events:
When signing up to join a third party organised challenge you can select a general place and chose to fundraise for a charity of your choice. Most of the people who do challenges and raise funds for the charity are self-funded. They will pay for the full cost of the challenge themselves, which means all sponsorship they raise goes direct the charity and we can claim gift aid. Some event providers offer different payment options giving you flexibility on how to fund your challenge.