Gold Challenge

Choose Your Challenge. Choose Your Cause http://www.goldchallenge.org/ The event included appearances from Team GB legends, celebrities and sporting champions.

Our Vision:
A world where our health & well-being is transformed through increased physical activity. Our Mission:
We create and run challenges and events to encourage and motivate more people to become more active, more often. Our Events & Challenges:

Gold Games & Festival of Sport 2016 - A unique combination of a corporate games and a festival of sport set in the stunning Queen Elizabeth Olymp

ic Park and its iconic venues – the Aquatics Centre and the Lee Valley VeloPark and Velodrome. Gold Challenge 2016 - is a team based healthy living and physical activity challenge which provides employees with a programme to improve their health and fitness whilst having fun and working together as a team. Bespoke Challenges - We create and run bespoke challenges for corporates, public sector bodies and employers, and charities. Run the World - is an extraordinary challenge that is being undertaken by Dan Thompson, our founder, who has committed to run 10km in every country in the world. Dan is doing the challenge to promote the benefits of sport and physical activity and to raise money for cancer research. Our Background:

Gold Challenge launched in late 2010 and ran two Olympic and Paralympic inspired challenges in the run up to London 2012 – the 2012km Challenge and the Olympic Sport Challenge. Gold Challenge partnered with the British Olympic Association / Team GB, Paralympics GB and Sport England and was part of the official London 2012 mass participation legacy programme. Gold Challenge also worked closely with LOCOG (the organising body for London 2012) and hosted one of the pre-Games test events in the Olympic Stadium. The event saw 20,000 people celebrate the extraordinary achievements of people taking on the Gold Challenge. The challenges were highly successful with in excess of 150,000 people participating. Over 100 corporates and 100 schools took part including large employers such as GSK, BP, Atos, EDF, Cisco, John Lewis and Coca Cola. Over £1.5 million was also raised for Gold Challenge’s 150 charity partners who included such household names as Cancer Research UK, Oxfam, the NSPCC and Help for Heroes. In early 2013, Gold Challenge launched the Take12 Challenge - a healthy living challenge funded by the London Legacy Development Corporation (the body responsible for the Olympic Park post the Games). Take12 aimed to inspire people in the Olympic host boroughs – Hackney, Newham, Greenwich, Tower Hamlets, Waltham Forest and Barking & Dagenham - to be more active and to explore the Olympic Park as it opened. Focussed on inactives, families and young people, Take 12 exceeded all its targets with over 15,000 registrations. Since 2013 Gold Challenge has created and run a range of healthy living and physical activity challenges for clients including global corporates, major public sector employers and bodies, and charities.

24/06/2018

Just a reminder that, if you’re anywhere near Edinburgh on the evening of Monday June 25th, we’d love to see you for a run, a walk or just to say hello !

14/06/2018

Please come and join us – for a run, a walk or just to say hello - if you’re anywhere near Edinburgh on the evening of June 25th!

26/02/2018

Our founder, Dan Thompson, has just added 45 UK runs to his Run the World challenge. He’s raising money for Cancer Research and that takes his global total to 250 runs - which is equivalent to running 2 500 000 metres. That’s a metre for every cancer sufferer in the UK.
We know he’d love it if you could join or support any of his runs. More details here:

Run The World : UK Tour I was in a meeting with Denise ‘Da Bees Knees’ and we were discussing how we could increase Run the World’s impact. In particular, how we could increase fundraising, do more talks, get more people …

Run 129 : Dominican Republic – Santo Domingo

16/12/2017

The latest blog from our founder as he runs round the world for Cancer Research. This one’s from the Dominican Republic and it sounds like he had quite a time there.

Run 129 : Dominican Republic – Santo Domingo Please give generously to Cancer Research : Date : 16th November, 2017 Time : 53’ 33” Number of runners : 15 Total distance run to date : 1290 km Run map and details : Media : The world is an endl…

14/12/2017

Our founder, Dan Thompson, has set himself the challenge of running 10km in every country in the world – that’s 206 countries in total – by the 2020 Olympics with the aim of raising as much money as possible for Cancer Research. Here’s the blog from his recent run in Miami :

USA – Miami Please give generously to Cancer Research : Date : 13th November, 2017 Time : 1h 5’ 47” Number of runners : 25 Run map and details : Unless you’re a resident, your image of Miami probably involves…

This Initiative To Improve Physical And Mental Health Is Our Kind Of Summer Fitness Challenge

13/07/2017

England Athletics Teams Up With Mind To Encourage Exercise For Better Physical And Mental Health

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/england-athletics-teams-up-with-mind-to-encourage-exercise-for-better-physical-and-mental-health_uk_59661c68e4b09b587d63a2df

This Initiative To Improve Physical And Mental Health Is Our Kind Of Summer Fitness Challenge Let's do this 💪

12/07/2017

Children lose up to 80% of their fitness over the summer holidays.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/07/10/summer-holidays-bad-child-health/

Summer holidays 'bad for child health' The summer holidays are bad for children’s health, with youths being “plonked in front of screens” and losing most of the fitness they gain at school, new research reveals.

Do you live in the world's laziest country? - BBC News

12/07/2017

Very interesting!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-40570442

Do you live in the world's laziest country? - BBC News Scientists use smartphones to track and rank activity levels around the world.

Researchers use smartphone data to measure physical activity by country

11/07/2017

The average person walked 5,000 steps a day

https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2017/07/10/Researchers-use-smartphone-data-to-measure-physical-activity-by-country/8421499708175/

Researchers use smartphone data to measure physical activity by country Researchers at Stanford University are using smartphone technology and data to track the physical activity by population of more than 100 countries.

11/07/2017

How to manage mental health at work

https://www.theguardian.com/careers/2017/jul/11/how-to-manage-mental-health-at-work

How to manage mental health at work Speak openly with colleagues about your mental ill-health and try to build a workplace that’s mental health friendly, say our experts

11/07/2017

Should your supermarket receipt count calories?

https://www.theguardian.com/business/shortcuts/2017/jul/10/should-your-supermarket-receipt-count-calories

Should your supermarket receipt count calories? A new proposal says the ‘traffic light’ labels used on food packaging ought to be applied to your whole shop to help people eat better

UK ageing population: THIS annoying habit could help you live longer

10/07/2017

http://www.express.co.uk/life-style/health/825649/uk-ageing-population-aging-longevity

UK ageing population: THIS annoying habit could help you live longer The UK has an ageing population, but advances in science mean it may be possible to live longer.

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