News & Blog
Here you’ll find the latest news from Challengers and blog posts from our Senior Leadership Team, Trustees, parents and staff to share interesting thoughts and ideas.
Summer Party and Staff Awards 2023
Each year we host a Challengers Summer Party at our Guildford Centre in Stoke Park to celebrate and recognise our amazing staff members and their accomplishments over the year. Our 2023 celebrations were held on Friday 1st September, where staff gathered for pizza, fun and games, before finding out the winners of our Staff Awards.
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Guest Blog – An Amazing Charity Run by Amazing People
A guest blog courtesy of Ian Hassell, brother of Challengers co-founder Colin Hassell, where he shares his thoughts on the charity’s legacy and his recent visit to Challengers.
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Games Month at ramsac!
Through the month of July, ramsac raised money for Challengers using the theme of play!
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Azets choose Challengers as their Charity of the Year!
The Guildford office of Azets, the top 10 accountancy firm, has chosen Challengers their official charity partner for the next year!
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Celebrating Pride Month: An interview with our CEO Gen Dearman
This June, we were delighted to ask our CEO, Gen Dearman, her opinions surrounding Pride Month. We asked her five very important questions and here is what she had to say.
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Wow – what a day we had at the London Marathon 2023!
We were delighted to cheer on our awesome team of 14 who all smashed the iconic London Marathon on behalf of Challengers on Sunday 23rd April! We were in total awe of them all, not just for running 26.2 miles, but for all their hard work over the past six months with their endless training and amazing fundraising.
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CEO Blog – Challengers feature on BBC News
Challengers were featured on BBC South Today and BBC London News over the Easter weekend, and were on BBC Radio Surrey to share our story about the impact of reduced funding across the sector and how families are missing out on much-needed respite.
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Challengers Pasta Party 2023!
We recently hosted our annual Pasta Party to celebrate our incredible London Marathon and Royal Parks Half Marathon teams. It was such a pleasure to hear the inspiring stories about how everyone’s training and fundraising were progressing, and why they were taking on these epic challenges to support Challengers.
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The build for our new accessible playground at Guildford has begun…
Work has started on a new, state-of-the-art inclusive playground at our Guildford play centre on Stoke Park! This specially designed playground is set to have a huge impact on the lives of thousands of disabled children who are often unable to use typical playgrounds in their own communities.
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