CHALLENGE No 1: 26 mile London Trek-a-thon

Challenge 30 has begun and i have sore feet! lol

Today I completed CHALLENGE NUMBER 1 of 30 a 26 mile trek around London
SUNDAY 13th May 2012
TOTAL RAISED TO DATE £1500 please add to this one my JUSTGIVING PAGE and help me save lives

Alison Catchpole and Jackie Argent completed this Trek with me in under 8 hours (including stopping time to eat and stretch!)

The Trek started in The Olympic village and ended up in Greenwich walking along a canal through Camden and past Buckingham Palace where the changing of the guards was taking place and along the Themes.

I thought that this would be one of the easier challenges and maybe it was! (in that case I'm scared about the rest!) I am not sure i have ever had blisters as big! poor feet!

This was an amazing Challenge, although I am in London a lot I tend to pop on to the tube pop up where I need to be and then disappear back underground again, it was great to see more of London! I discovered Little Venice! what a lovely place! cute little river boat café's that I will be visiting one day

To take a look at all the photos take a look at the Facebook album CLICK HERE and whilst your there feel free to add me and follow the rest of my challenges :)

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Challenges completed to date

1. 26 Mile London Trek

PRESS REALISE

Stylist at Clipso Watford is to Complete 30 Challenges at the Age of 30 to Raise Money for Charity

Challenge 30 is a project that Sarah Bishop a stylist from the Watford branch of Clipso (known as Tia to her colleges and clients) has set up to help raise money for a children’s charity named Hope for Children, she plans on raising a minimum of £10,000 to help save and enhance the lives of orphaned, poor and exploited children worldwide.

Sarah from Watford Hertfordshire is planning on completing 30 Challenges within one year starting 11^th May 2012, her 30^th birthday, including Skydiving, Abseiling, various Swims, a number of Runs including a Marathon, a Great Wall of China Trek, Bike Rides including cycling from London to Paris, Climbing Mountains such and Ben Nevis and Everest Base Camp and confronting her fear of needles by giving blood.  Take a look at Sarah’s full list of challenges on her website www.challenge30.co.uk .

“I can’t wait for challenge 30 to begin; it’s going to be a fantastic experience and the fact that I will be able to help so many children whilst doing all these amazing challenges is incredible” replied Sarah when asked about her thoughts on Challenge 30 “people have already been so generous with their donations, Hope are already doing such amazing job and I am really pleased that I can help them make a difference”.  Rachel Simkin, events manager for Hope for Children added “Sarah’s enthusiasm and energy to complete 30 challenges in a year to support Hope for Children is fantastic! The funds she is raising will make a very real difference to our projects and children”

If you wish to show your support for Sarah you can sponsor her through here Just Giving page http://www.justgiving.com/challenge30 

For more information contact

Sarah Bishop

Challenge30@live.com

Summer is coming!

Hello Everyone

The UK has been hot(ish) and Sunny for the first time this year! and doesn't it make everyone feel better!

What did you do today???

Myself? I have a massive spring clean! did about 300 loads of washing, re arranged all my draws and updated my blog! 

I am so excited about my up and coming challenges especially the skydive that is only a couple of months away! you can take a look at all 30 of my challenges here

Anyway just wanted to check in quicky!

Enjoy your week

Sarah xxx 

Clipso sponsors Challenge 30 Abseil

Join The Charity Abseil with Clipso and Challenge 30 down the Harlequin in Watford

Sunday 12^th August 2012

Clipso along with Challenge 30 have arranged an amazing event to raise money for the wonderful Charity HOPE FOR CHILDREN to help save the lives of orphaned, poor and exploited woman and children across the world.

The Registration fee is £20 and can be paid in the salon or online at www.challenge30.co.uk

You will need to raise a minimum of £50 sponsorship for Hope for Children reg Charity number 1041258

Please ask Tia or any other member of the Clipso team for more information and about signing up.

If the abseil is not for you, you can sponsor your Clipso stylist whilst in the salon or online at www.justgiving.com/challenge30abseil

Skydive with Challenge 30

Challenge 30 has arranged to do a skydive in Northamptonshire and is putting together a team of people to do it with them!

Its on Sunday 20th May 2012 at Hinton Skydive Center, all you need to pay is a £30 deposit online and as long as you can raise £300 you will not have to pay another penny for this Challenge!!!

What to do next! ...

If this sounds like something you would like to do please Email me at challenge30@live.com and I can provide you with all the information and sponsor forms!

You can also look and click attend on the facebook event  to keep up to date with this event.

Please follow my Blog all the support means so much to me!
I am also on Facebook, twitter, and Google plus!
and remember every time you click on an advert on this page a donation goes to charity x

My 30 Challenges!!!!

1. TBC May 2012 Superhero 5k run (no details yet, check out last years)
2. May 2012 – May 2013 Don’t eat a chocolate bar for a whole year!!
3. 13th May 2012 Crazy mud challenge
4. 20th May 2012 Skydive
5. 27th May Eton 750m open water lake swim 
6. 10th June 2012 Great Kent 60 mile bike ride
7. 8th July 2012 Windsor 1500m open water river swim
8. 12th July 2012 10k run 
9. 5th august 2012 Suffolk coast 60 mile bike ride  
10. 26th August 2012 Marlow 3k Open water river swim
11. 2nd September 2012 90 mile London bike ride
12. 9th September 2012 Spartan Run
13. 16th September 2012 HSBC dualathon
14. 19th September 2012 London to Paris bike ride
15. 28th October  2012 10 mile run
16. 3rd November 2012 Trek the great wall of China
17. January 2013 Give up alcohol for a whole month!!
18. Arrange an Abseil Event in Watford (contact me to join in, 70 people needed)
19. March 2013 Silverstone Half marathon
20. 26th April 2013 Everest base camp trek
21. 5 mile run
22. Full Marathon
23. White water rafting
24. Blowdry-athon at Clipso £15 a blowdry and all money goes to charity
25. London to Brighton Bike ride
26. Sponsored silence (trust me that’s hard for me)
27. Arrange a party for disabled children
28. Arrange a charity ball (and your all invited)
29. Midnight walk
30. Give Blood (my biggest biggest fear!)

So what do you think? do you wanna join in with any? let me know below!!!

Why am I doing this!!!

I consider myself as one of the world extremely lucky people, I was born and raised in England and have always had a world of opportunities on my door step, I consider myself lucky because there is so much suffering in the world, people suffering from malnutrition due to lack of food, no clean water to drink, no shelter, no education, woman and children suffering from abuse and simply a basic lack of human rights that every human being on the planet should be entitled to.

I sat at home wondering what I could do to make a difference in the lives of these people how I could help give people, especially children, hope. Everyone deserves hope, everyone deserves to dream and everyone deserves opportunities, I believe that providing people with their basic human rights, the right to an education, the right to eat, the right to drink clean and safe water and the right to have self-respect and to be treated respectfully by others is something that we should all work closely together to help achieve.

I decided that I would set myself a challenge to raise as much money as possible to help children suffering around the world, I came across a charity called Hope for Children that runs amazing projects around the world and I have set myself a task, it’s called Challenge 30, I am hoping that Challenge 30 will raise a substantial amount of money to help the charity Hope for Children, helping them to make a difference.

With my 30^th birthday soon approaching I have decided to dedicate my 30^th year to help children, I will be completing 30 challenges over the year including treks, runs, a skydive and facing my biggest fear amongst plenty of other crazy things in return for sponsorship for the charity Hope for Children  

Please visit my website to find out more www.challenge30.co.uk

Thank you for taking the time to listen to me

Love and best wishes

Sarah xxx

Abseil with Challenge 30 in Watford 2012

I have come up with a great plan!! I am so excited, all this time I have been looking for an abseil to do and struggling to find one so I have decided to organise one myself! ... No No don't worry I am not going to try up a few ropes myself it will all  be arranged by a company that specialises in Abseiling Events!!!

The abseil will take place in the Watford area in 2012, I need at least 100 people to let me know they are up for it and I will get the ball rolling

so........... fancy it???????????

Click attend on the FACEBOOK EVENTS PAGE it would also be great if you could "like" the CHALLENGE 30 FACEBOOK PAGE and support me :)

If you don't have Facebook I am also on TWITTER or you can EMAIL ME challenge30@live.com

Take care and thanks for the support


Sarah xxx

PS everytime you click on an ad on this page money goes to charity :)

I am feeling very inspired right now!

Hello My Challenge 30 friends!

Thank you for following my blog, I really want to make this thing massive so please ask your friends to follow too!!??

I went to speak to Rachel from the charity Hope for Children yesterday and to meet the rest or the gang.  What an amazing place that is, a really small charity that makes sure all of the money donated to them goes straight to the children that need it and not through the government where it can get lost, its great to meet so many people that passionate about a great cause

The second part of my day yesterday took me to Harley street to meet a fantastic lady called Linda who has agreed to help me with my biggest challenge that I have thought of so far ... to give blood!!! now I know to some of you this wouldn't sound half as frighting as to jump 10000ft out of a plane or as hard as walking all the steps involved in walking the Great wall of China! but to me its my biggest fear and not a fear a phobia!  Linda is a hypnotherapist and she said she thinks she will be able to help me get over it and I have every faith in her.

So hence why I am feeling very inspired right now!!

Thanks for reading my blog guys

Love Sarah
www.challenge30.co.uk