The Gold Challenge

The Gold Challenge is a charity challenge where you take on 5, 10, 20 or 30 Olympic and Paralympic sports and raise money for a charity of your choice. You can choose from all 30 of the Olympic and Paralympic sports, and must complete your challenge before the end of 2012. Get your friends and family to sponsor you to take on new sports or really push your boundaries and do a endurance event such as a marathon or a triathlon.

 

Anyone can do the Gold Challenge regardless of your physical ability, your level of fitness or where you live - you just have to be 16 years old or over*.  It's about creating your own personal challenge that people will sponsor you for completing. You can do the Gold Challenge as an individual or get a group of friends together and take it on as a team - it's also a great opportunity for corporates looking for a new sporting challenge.

 

With the world's largest sporting event, the Olympic and Paralympic Games, just around the corner, this is your once in a lifetime opportunity to be a part of the excitement, not just a spectator. Just choose your challenge, and choose your cause.

 

For our simple guide on how to do the Gold Challenge, see our Three Easy Steps

 

And to register for the Gold Challenge Click Here!

 

* We will be launching a version of the Gold Challenge for Under 16s soon, and have other future versions planned too. Find out more here

 

Charity

We have over 100 charity partners – take a look at the full list in the Charity Section. Just click on their logo to find out all you need to know about them.

 

How to get people to sponsor your Gold Challenge:

• If you don’t usually take part in sport, then completing five or more Olympic and Paralympic sports will be a real achievement
• Whereas more experienced competitors may need challenge themselves further.
• See our Top 10 Challenges for inspiration on what you can do with your Gold Challenge!

 

The most important thing to do is to set up a Fundraising page! Use the link that appears at the end of registration, or in your Gold Challenge welcome email you received after you completed your registration.  Make it fun, engaging, and full of reasons why your friends and family should sponsor you.

Sport

You can choose from 30 Olympic and Paralympic sports. It doesn’t matter if you’re a beginner, you play occasionally, you’re a club member or you have a disability – just pick the session that’s right for you.

 

To find out more about all the sports, including how and where to complete them - go to our Sport Section

 

And for an idea of how much they're likely to cost you, take a look at our sport costing document here. Please note, ultimately the cost of a session depends on your provider, these are just rough average estimates.

 

You complete your sport by:

 

Undertaking a minimum of three hours coaching in that sport (either in one session or spread out over a period of time). This is ideal for learning a new sport - or improving your skills.

OR

Completing an endurance event such as a marathon or triathlon

 

Remember to download your certificate from our Media Centre, print it off and take it with you when you have completed a sport.

 

Mark your sport as completed on your Results Tracker and you can:

• Keep track of all the sports you’ve done
• Enter bonus points to show how well you’re doing
• Become eligible for Gold Challenge prizes - see our section on Points and Prizes to find out more.

 

 

Teams

If you're taking on the Gold Challenge as a team, you have to decide if you want to do 5, 10, 20 or 30 sports together, and then decide which sports your team will do.

 

It's up to each member of the team to decide whether they do all of the sports, or just some of them.  You share the sports out between the team so you could do as many or as few as you want.

 

All team member must register with the Gold Challenge in order to take part.

 

All team members must fundraise for the same charity

 

Your team's score will be calculated by taking the highest score out of all your teammates for each sport your team completes

 

If you're a company looking for a new team challenge, check out our dedicated Corporate section to find out how you can do the Gold Challenge

 

Team Captains

As team captain, you will be taking the reigns of your challenge, organising your team mates and leading the way.

 

It’s also your responsibility to create a fundraising page and share the link with all your team mates!  Then you can send it to everyone you know and start raising money.

 

And to thank you for your all your effort, make sure you request your free Gold Challenge Captain T-shirt by emailing This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or calling our helpline.

 

Don’t forget, we’re always here to support you. Just email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it and we will always do our best to help you out with whatever you need.