Rotary Exmoor: Youth Challenge
This Challenge has become a very popular event over the last few years - over 100 teams of young people take part, some from over 100 miles away!
! Next Challenge: Saturday 4 May 2024 !
Results of 2023 Challenge - here
Contact Team Entries Organiser: youth-challenge@exmoor-rotary.org.uk
* CHSW DONATION 2023 from this Challenge was well over £3000 !!! Huge thanks to everyone who took part and contributed. Can we do better in 2024?
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ROTARY EXMOOR YOUTH CHALLENGE: The new video made during the 2018 event is available on-line. It includes the electronic timing the teams use. You can view it here. Enjoy.
ENTRY PROCEDURES: To make the process fairer, particularly to smaller schools and other youth organisations, this is no longer be 'first come, first served'. All entries will need to be in by 3rd Februray and it is only at this stage that we will allocate the places.
ELECTRONIC TIMING: Again this year we have a system of electronic timing for each leg of the walk. Each team will carry a memory chip which will need to be inserted into a small machine at each checkpoint - it is up to the team leader to make sure this happens at the appropriate time! At the end the chip is handed in and the information downloaded to a computer for processing. Details of the system and a short video are given in a download below.
SPONSORSHIP: Please make cheques payable to 'Rotary Club of Exmoor' - this means we can make a formal presentation to Children's Hospice South West which gives good publicity to them and also to our event.
There are 4 people in a team, and they have to follow a 16 mile route which
is not marked - so following instructions, map-reading, and compass skills
are
essential. There are a series of check-points along the route and each leg
has to be done in a pre-determined time - points are deducted if teams arrive
too
early or too late, and those who get very tired and lag too much are pulled
out of the challenge. Only those who successfully complete the event are
presented
with a medal.
Safety is paramount in having over 600 children spread across a desolate
area of moorland - check points are kept in radio-contact with the control
room by Exmoor Radio Club, many of our club members are supplemented by those from
Tiverton and Exe Valley Rotary Clubs as well as non-Rotarians, and we are
grateful for the services of the Exmoor Rangers, Exmoor Search & Rescue, and St John Ambulance.
2024: Juniors must be over 10 and under 14 years on 1 Sept 2023; Seniors must be under 17 years on 1 Sept 2023. You can download information in Acrobat PDF format here: Contact Team Entries Organiser: youth-challenge@exmoor-rotary.org.uk
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A remarkable map is available on line showing Devon paths in amazing detail - try zooming in!
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Exmoor Moorland Landscape Partnership have produced a special Moorland Classroom pack for the Challenge. "We are so grateful for the promotion of the free resource. We have now engaged with over 4000 children and again I think the work of the Exmoor Challenge is amazing." |
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Archive Pictures from earlier events.
