A decade on the hills to support those who served And that’s a wrap on the Cumbrian Challenge 2023. Our biggest yet and what an event it was. 193 teams. 725 participants. 1 goal. To challenge themselves to make a difference to the veterans and their loved ones that we support. Conditions were not kind to our participants. Although a lovely clear day, it was a brutally hot course which made conditions extremely tough and we did pick up a few injuries along the way. The Cumbrian Challenge is our headline event at Walking With The Wounded and we are blessed to have had such fantastic support over the past 10 years the challenge has run. This year was absolutely no exception and a massive thank you to our key sponsors, FDM, BAE Systems, Gasway, Sunbelt Rentals and Newcastle Building Society who contributed a mighty £47,500 in sponsorship to help us run the event. Of course, with all such events, the fundraising is what enables us to do what we do at WWTW and everyone involved this year has exceeded expectations with particular shout outs to: Gasway, who’s 13 teams have so fair raised £37,894.86, in addition to their headline sponsorship of £10,000! Sopra Steria, who not only increased their team total from 8 last year to 20 this year but have also raised £26,189.04 DXC, who smashed past last years team total, going from 6 to a barely believable 31 and raising £48,478 All in all we are currently at £300,000 and still going! Unbelievable and what an achievement. Everyone that took part should be immensely proud of themselves. The dust hasn’t yet settled on this event and already our thoughts turn to next year. It’ll be big. It’ll be bold. It’ll make a difference again. See you there: https://cumbrian-challenge.walkingwiththewounded.org.uk/2024-pre-register Images provided by Walking With The Wounded