We’ve heard it before: new year, new resolutions, new you! After an indulgent Christmas holiday celebrating the end of the year, we look ahead to January for a fresh start. We all want to put our best foot forward and what better way of tackling the winter blues than by making a promise to yourself to do better and achieve more?

Our resolutions often cover similar ground. Whether it’s increasing your exercise, getting outdoors more, travelling and seeing new places, making new connections, or generally doing some good in the world. Instead of picking just one of these, why not make a resolution that covers them all? When you sign up for an outdoor adventure challenge with Charity Challenge, you’re guaranteed to end up ticking off each of these at some point in your journey.

Read on to find out exactly how a Charity Challenge can help create that inspired ‘new you’ (and for special New Years Sale offers!).

How signing up for a Charity Challenge creates lasting change…

1) Motivated movement

When you make conquering a charity challenge your New Year’s resolution, you’ll have increased motivation to stick to your exercise plans! Exercising regularly and getting outdoors as part of your training could help improve your mental health – especially important over the first colder and darker months of the year.

We offer a wide range of outdoor challenges in the UK and overseas, from trekking to cycling, with difficulty levels varying from challenging to extreme. When you sign up to a challenge, you get your own participant account area – and within the Fitness & Training tab, you’ll find lots of helpful resources to help you slowly build up your fitness over the months.

2) Feel-good fundraising

We specialise in challenge events where participants can raise money for any UK or Irish registered charity of their choice. Over 25 years, we’ve now helped raise over £83 million for charities across the UK. We already partner with thousands of UK and Irish registered charities, from big to small. Choose to support one that means something special to you. Knowing your efforts are helping towards their cause will inspire you to keep going when it gets tough.

3) Travel tick lists

We operate excellent challenges across 6 continents, in over 40 countries worldwide, so it’s up to you to choose where your adventure takes you. Over rolling green hills, through lush rainforests, otherworldly desert landscapes or scaling impressive mountains – what will you choose? Joining a charity challenge opens up new destinations for you, whilst allowing you to travel responsibly and with a greater purpose in mind.

4) Ongoing motivation

Whether you choose a challenge in 2025 or 2026, don’t miss the chance to sign up to one of our amazing upcoming challenges. The earlier you get it in your diary, the earlier you can become the ‘new you’. Start 2025 as you mean to go on – feeling motivated to improve your fitness and fundraising efforts week by week, whilst looking forward to an exciting future goal. You’ll reach many milestones along the way, feeling a sense of ongoing achievement and fulfilment that really lasts!

5) Meet people and make memories

Although you’re welcome to sign up with friends, most of our challengers are solo adventurers. So, you’re guaranteed to meet some like-minded people on your challenge and even make some lasting friendships! Our participants love the sense of camaraderie they find on our challenges and often feel inspired and uplifted when they come away, eager to sign up for their next one.

6) Creating lasting community

As well as open challenges, we also run exclusive charity challenges throughout the year, where all participants are raising funds for one specfic charity. If you sign up for one of these and choose to share your contact details, you’ll be able to make new connections with people who care about the same cause you do. Sharing stories and forming new bonds is great for our mental health and is another way to keep you fulfilled and grateful in the new year. We also connect you directly with your charity, helping open up a new community of support for you.

New Year’s sale now live!

Don’t miss out on our offers – make your New Year’s resolution to sign up early…

When you sign up to a challenge in January you can receive up to 50% off reg fees on selected UK and Overseas challenges.

Offer available from 9am Thursday 2nd January to Midnight Friday 31st January. T&C’s apply