News & Blog
Here you’ll find the latest news from Challengers and blog posts from our community.
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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Fundraiser Tales: Farnham Hedgehog’s Golf Day
Last September we were delighted to join the amazing Farnham Hedgehogs at their annual Golf Day at The Army Golf Club in Aldershot, where 68 players had a lovely day on the course followed by a dinner, raffle and an auction in the Clubhouse all in aid of Challengers.
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Challengers announces the appointment of new Chair of Trustees, Russell Harvey
We are delighted to announce the appointment of a new Chair of the Board, Russell Harvey. Russell is a highly regarded and experienced Finance professional, having spent over 30 years in Banking and Finance.
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The Challengers Child Listening Programme
As well as gathering annual feedback from parents and carers, we also make sure to get insight directly from children and young people about their time at Challengers, to check they are enjoying it and to see whether there is anything we can improve as part of our our Child Listening Programme.
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The Kindness of Time
We are delighted to announce that Alexis Krite, David Reading and Max Bevan have released a book of 30 short stories under the title of ‘The Kindness of Time’, with all profits from the sale of the book coming to Challengers.
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‘Surrey Sloths’ raise over £10,000 for Challengers!
After four pandemic postponements the Leader of Guildford Borough Council, Councillor Joss Bigmore and five friends, Tom Hufton, Nick Thomson, John Jopp, Steve Allen and Ken Stannard finally made it to the Alps, completing 700km of cycling, and climbing the equivalent of Everest twice in just 6 days.
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