Our mission is to break down the barriers to enable people to reap the mental and physical health benefits gained from engagement with nature and the outdoor activities from which we create our Challenges!. We also want to evolve a network of Challenge! Local Hubs to arrange Challenges! for our Beneficiary Members in that locality to achieve our Charitable Objects, which are:

a) to promote the mental, spiritual, moral and physical development and improvement of young people in order to develop their full capacities and enable them to become responsible members of society.

b) To provide or assist in the provision of facilities in the interests of social welfare for recreation or other leisure time occupation of individuals who have need of such facilities by reason of their youth, age, infirmity or disablement, financial hardship or social and economic circumstances or for the public at large in the interests of social welfare and with the object of improving their conditions of life.

You are welcome to join us and help us to achieve our mission, by becoming:

a Benificiary Member;

a Challenge! Mentor;

setting up a Challenge! Local Hub;

or by providing funding or helping us to raise funds.

Firstly, you will need to register as a Beneficiary Member. You can either bring an membership application with you, or complete an on-line application form. For some Challenges! we require a Consent and Medical Disclosure Form (available in the forms section below) to help ensure your safety.

Once registered (you only need to do this once) you can sign-up to any of the Challenges! Some Challenges! may be limited to a set number of participants or have age (or other) limitations too. The reason for the limitation will be stated in the Challenge! description. 

Where possible our aim is to provide free Challenges! but sometimes we are not able to meet the hire fees for facilities or equipment and we will pass that on to the Beneficiary Member. Nonetheless, if there is financial hardship we may be able to access a bursary so please contact us if this is the case. Mentorship will generally be provided free of charge.

We do ask for a Joining Contribution when you sign-up and a Challenge Contribution at each event. We don't set a figure for this though, and will leave it for our Benificiary Members to determine what they can afford to give. We also think that many will also set up an annual subscription to help us cover our overhead and running costs.

Challenge! Mentors, are volunteers who are responsible for the setting-up and safely running our Challenges! 

They will be very experienced in the Challenge! activity and most will hold National Governing Body Instructor, Coaching or Leading qualifications and be members of the relevant National Association.

If you are interested in being a Challenge! Mentor please complete this form. 

Challenge! Mentors are also responsible to implementing our safeguarding policy and will hold a valid First Aid qualification. In some cases where this is appropriate they will also hold an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service certificate.

A Challenge! Locality Hub is created where Challenge! Mentors get together to set-up and run Challenges! for their local community. They will be then known as Take up the Challenge! (Locality name) Hub. Often they will established as a community group but could also be set up as an unregistered or registered charity or a charitable incorporated organisation.

We can help with setting this all up and have some model constitutions and policies to save reinventing the wheel.

Complaints policy

Risk management policy

Safeguarding policy

Consent form & Medical Disclosure

Climbing Consent form & Medical Disclosure

We will always try to enable well behaved dogs and their human companions to take part in our Challenges! Sometimes, however, this is not possible; because the Challenge! is not suitable for dogs as the activity prevents their owner from taking proper care of them or that a third party facility has banned dogs. If this ban is not stated in the Challenge! details then please assume you can both take part but please don't register your dog as a participant or beneficiary.

We do however, reserve the right to withdraw owners and their dogs  from a Challenge! if they are causing a nuisance, are aggressive or are not following the Challenge! Mentor's instructions.

For unacompanied children and under 18 year olds to attend a Challenge! we need robust safeguarding arrangements to be in place. Sometimes this is not possible: for instance, if we don't have enough volunteers with Enhanced DBS certificates. If this is the case we will class the Challenge! Adult + F in the description (+F = the adult's family, their own children). Unacompanied children may not participate in an Adult +F Challenge!

Sometimes the Challenge! is only suitable for adults and we will classed as Adults Only.

Some Challenges! may not be suitable for adults and we will class this as Under 18's (or a lower age). Other Challenges! may have a minimum age requirement eg Over 8s or there may be some physical criteria that need to be met to take part.

Only adults that hold an Enhanced DBS certificate (or who are directly supervided by a named individual with this certificate) may participate on an Under 18s (or lower age) Challenge!.

If the Challenge! does not have a supplementary classification it is open to everyone.

We welcome setting up Affiliated Challenge! Partner arrangements to link-up with organisations who have similar objects to Take up the Challenge! CIO.

Once an Affiliation Agreement has been agreed and signed, we will approve Challenge! Mentors from within the Affiliated Challenge! Partner's membership so that they may set up and run agreed Challenges! using the Affiliated Challenge! Partner's own members and organisational arrangements.

Approved organisations will be recorded as: Affiliated Challenge! Partner: [Organisation name] against the Challenges! they are running. 

Risk management policy

Safeguarding policy

Social Media Guidelines