Valley Hospital Charity

Registered Charity
No. 1050861

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Are you an Individual, Corporate or Charity interested in having your own private group departure?
If yes, please email info@charitychallenge.com and one of our team will be in touch to help with your enquiry.

2025
2026
TRIP NOTES KIT LIST

Fri 18 Jul - Sun 20 Jul 2025

OVERVIEW

What to expect

ITINERARY

What you will do

COSTS

Ways to pay

ESSENTIAL INFO

All you need to know

How to fund your challenge

This page provides you details of the costs of your challenge.

The costs below are per person.

In Summary

Self funder

Pay a non-refundable registration fee of £95.00 when you book.

Then a balance of £460.00
(9 weeks before your challenge).

Raise as much as you can for Valley Hospital Charity.

Minimum sponsorship

Pay a non-refundable registration fee of £95.00 when you book.

Raise a minimum of £935.00 for Valley Hospital Charity.

In Detail

Self funder option

The full cost of this challenge is £555.00. You will be required to pay the non-refundable registration fee of £95.00 at the time of booking, and 9 weeks before departure (16/05/2025) you will be required to pay the final balance of your challenge costs (£460.00). You will receive fundraising advice and sponsorship forms and be asked to raise as much as you can for Valley Hospital Charity. As you have covered the full cost of the challenge, 100% of this fundraising will be retained by Valley Hospital Charity.

Minimum sponsorship option

You will be required to pay the non-refundable registration fee of £95.00 at the time of booking and raise a minimum amount of sponsorship, £935.00 for Valley Hospital Charity. You should send your sponsorship money to Valley Hospital Charity as you raise it. At least 80% of the minimum sponsorship required (£748.00) must be sent to the charity 11 weeks before departure (by 02/05/2025), and the remaining 20% (£187.00) within 4 weeks of completing the challenge (by 17/08/2025). If you have raised the necessary funds, Valley Hospital Charity will then pay the balance of your expedition costs (which will not exceed 49% of the minimum sponsorship target). The charity benefits by keeping the remaining sponsorship money and every pound over and above that you raise.

Payment options explained

What's included?

Before you go

  • Members only benefits and discounts at a wide range of clothing and equipment suppliers including Outdoorhire, Cotswold Outdoor, Runners Needs, Snow + Rock, Water to Go, The Altitude Centre, Sporttape and Nomad & MASTA.
  • Access to your own password protected account including support materials and training schedules
  • Access to training weekends (optional and at additional expense)
  • Warm up exercise routines
  • 16 and 20 week trek/bike training schedule
  • Travel to and from the challenge start/finish point

On your challenge

  • Three meals a day (unless otherwise stated in the itinerary)
  • Drinking water on challenge days
  • Full back-up support including first-aid qualified staff and first-aid supplies
  • All challenge management before, during and post event
  • Accommodation during the challenge

What's not included?

Before you go

  • Any covid tests required for entry to any countries or places of interest on your challenge itinerary
  • Any covid tests required for entry to any countries or places of interest on your challenge itinerary
  • Clothing and equipment listed on your Kit List

On your challenge

  • Dinner on the first and second evening of the itinerary
  • Departure Tax (if applicable)
  • Departure Tax (if applicable)
  • Personal spending money
  • Any other specific items listed as not included in your Trip Notes

The details

Fundraising deadlines

You will need to send your sponsorship money to the charity as you raise it. At least 80% of the minimum sponsorship required must be sent to the charity 11 weeks before departure (by 02/05/2025), and the remaining 20% within 4 weeks of completing the challenge (by 17/08/2025). If you have raised the necessary funds, the charity will then pay the balance of your challenge costs. The charity benefits by keeping the remaining sponsorship money and every pound over and above that you raise.

Fundraising support

Thank you very much for choosing to take part in a challenge to support Valley Hospital Charity.

We are here to offer you fundraising support and materials to help get the most out of your trip and raise all you can for those patients who we benefit at Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust.

You can set up a personalised fundraising page for your challenge on our website which you can circulate to family, friends and colleagues.

You can email us or call us on 01322 428256 for more information about Valley Hospital Charity and for fundraising support.

Many thanks

Valley Hospital Charity

Typical group size

The typical group size is 12 - 26 participants

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The challenges featured in this section of the website are operated exclusively by Charity Challenge (company no. 03686692, ATOL 6546) in order to raise funds for Valley Hospital Charity. The charity is acting as an agent for Charity Challenge and has no involvement or responsibility whatsoever for the operation of these challenges.

ATOL protected

We hold an Air Travel Organiser's Licence granted by the Civil Aviation Authority. Our ATOL number is 6546. Many of the flight-inclusive challenges on this website are financially protected by the ATOL scheme. But ATOL protection does not apply to all holiday and travel services listed on this website. This ATOL protection only covers challenges that include flights booked by Charity Challenge and that originate in the UK. Please ask us to confirm what protection may apply to your booking. If you do not receive an ATOL Certificate then the booking will not be ATOL protected. If you do receive an ATOL Certificate but all the parts of your trip are not listed on it, those parts will not be ATOL protected. Please see our booking conditions for information or for more information about financial protection and the ATOL Certificate go to: www.atol.org.uk/ATOLcertificate

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