How Will It Work?

Each team of four will have a Facilitator. Their job is to make sure you don’t get lost on the challenge and to help you get the right equipment, develop the right level of fitness and know how to raise the required minimum sponsorship of £1,000 per team.

Throughout the next six months we will organise regular events for the whole group where we will help you understand teamwork and leadership and develop your skills in this area.

We will organise regular walks on Dartmoor, increasing in distance, where the emphasis will be on your team’s navigational skills (which we will help you develop). One of these walks will include an overnight stop in tents.

We will give you advice on the level of fitness required to complete the Challenge and how to achieve this level in the timescale. We will also give you advice on fundraising.

Each team will be accompanied by a Facilitator on the Challenge itself.

Although the challenge is a race, we are seeing completion of the Challenge as a success and will not be pressuring anyone to compete or walk faster than they feel able to.

So, if you feel that you’re not fit enough, or that you don’t know how to navigate, or have never slept in a tent or carried a rucsack, but would like to challenge yourself and feel a real sense of achievement – then this challenge is for you!

2010 ShelterBox Dartmoor Challenge with Evolution

What is the Challenge?

A unique adventure challenge set to test team work & endurance to the limit. Teams of four navigate a 30 mile challenge course over two days, carrying a ShelterBox loaded with everything needed to complete the course & survive an overnight on the moor.

The challenge represents the qualities needed to become a ShelterBox Response Team Member.

Last year, four of us from Evolution formed a team to join in the Dartmoor Challenge. We really got a lot out of it and decided to give people who would be interested in the Challenge, but who wouldn’t apply to join it on their own, the chance to get involved.

This year we are entering five teams into the Challenge. Each team will be facilitated by one of the orginal members plus Fiona, who will be facilitating a Women’s team.