Welcome to the Strive for 35 Challenge!

2025 marks a major milestone for us – our 35th anniversary! To celebrate, we’re inviting you to join our Strive for 35 in March Challenge. Whether you choose to walk, jog, or roll, this is your chance to raise funds for our amazing charity!

The goal is simple: Complete 35 miles, minutes, or movements during the month of March– in your own way, at your own pace. By participating, you’re not just moving for your health, you’re moving for a cause. Every step, roll, or stride supports our mission and helps raise vital funds to help us train more amazing assistance dogs!

So lace up, gear up, or roll out, and let’s make this 35th year one to remember. Together, we’ll strive, thrive, and make an impact!

Sign up today to claim your FREE t-shirt and mile tracker*

*The product(s) you receive for signing up may vary or be unavailable, depending on stock.  

Friday 30 April 2021 would have been Captain Sir Tom Moore’s 101st birthday and the one-year anniversary of the extraordinary celebrations following the conclusion of his famous 100 laps of his garden in the height of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Following the outpouring of heartfelt messages since his death on 2 February, his family pledged to celebrate his life with an event that everyone in the UK and around the world, could get involved in to celebrate Captain Tom’s generosity of spirit, the hope and joy he brought to millions, and his sense of fun.

And that event is the Captain Tom 100.

Everyone of all ages and abilities is invited to take on a challenge around the number 100 any time and anywhere over Captain Tom’s birthday weekend, starting on Friday 30 April through to Bank Holiday Monday 3 May.

• Date: Friday 30 April to Monday 3 May 2021
• Sign up: All you need to do is set up a Just Giving or Virgin Money Giving page. Click here for Virgin Money Giving and click ‘Fundraise now’ and click here for Just Giving, enter ‘Canine Partners’ in the search box, click on Canine Partners and then click on ‘Fundraise’
• To find out more, please visit the Captain Tom 100 website: captaintom.org/captain-tom-100

Do it your way!

Here’s a few ideas to get you started:

• Walk 100 laps of your garden
• Run for 100 minutes
• Bake 100 biscuits
• Take 100 photos
• Be silent for 100 minutes
• Do 100 hula hoops
• Try to spot 100 different trees, birds, cars and flowers on a walk
• Hang a 100 messages of hope on a tree (and don’t forget to take them down afterwards)
• Build something with 100 lego bricks
• Volunteer 100 hours of your time

As official Charity Friends of the Superhero Series, the UK’s one and only disability sports series, we’re very excited to invite you to take part in the perfect mission to keep you super-charged this winter – at Home Winter Wonderwheels powered by Marvel.

You can complete this ultra-flexible 20km* challenge any time between 5 November and 6 December, anywhere (living room, garden, neighbourhood) and in any way (walk, run, push, wheel, canoe, swim) you wish. You can also choose to fly solo or unite with family and friends in your household, or remotely using a dedicated app, to share the challenge. Anything goes!

In return for all your hard work and fundraising efforts, you will receive a super race pack, including race number, medal, finisher’s T-shirt and finish line tape, so you can experience your own personal finish-line moments! Plus…

…a chance to be on TV!

An array of celebrities, from Adam Hills to Sophie Christiansen, will be stepping up to the mission from their own homes this winter and Channel 4 will be capturing highlights for a one-hour programme on 12 December – which you could star in too! You will be invited to upload your own action footage of your training, the mission and those all-important finish-line moments, which could be chosen for the closing celebratory montage! They’re after mega amounts of Superhero energy, so get those costumes, smiles and Superhero poses ready!

• Date:  Thursday 5 November to Sunday 6 December 2020
• Location: Virtual event
• Contact number: 01530 225930
• Contact email: fundraising@caninepartners.org.uk

For more on this and other Superhero Series missions visit: www.superheroseries.co.uk

* 20km is purely a guideline. Please feel free to set your own distance, depending on your individual circumstances.

Canine Partners is joining the national 2.6 Challenge campaign, which will take place on Sunday 26 April 2020.

During these unprecedented times, we have had to cancel and postpone many of our summer events and the organisers of The 2.6 Challenge want to help save the UK’s charities. The 26 April 2020 would have been the date of the cancelled London Marathon, so please help us turn the day into something positive!

So what is The 2.6 Challenge?

All you have to do is decide what you’re going to do that is in the units of 2.6 or 26, and then follow the link below to sign up, and start fundraising.

Click here to sign up and start fundraising

There are no fees and no hidden costs – 100% of your fundraising will come directly to Canine Partners from Just Giving and Virgin Money Giving.

Here’s a few ideas from us to get you started:

• Get active and walk (or run) 2.6km or 2.6 miles around your home or garden
• Hop, skip, dance or exercise with friends virtually for 26 minutes
• Do 26 press ups, chip 26 golf balls into a bucket, or hula hoop 26 times in a row
• Get creative and bake 26 cupcakes or 26 cookies
• Draw a picture of 26 different animals or flowers
• Make a patchwork with 26 squares of old fabric
• Simply donate £26

Join in and be a #HomeHero! Please help bring the nation together on Sunday 26 April 2020, by taking on The 2.6 Challenge and raise vital funds for Canine Partners.

Please remember to follow government guidelines and social distancing rules when taking part in The 2.6 Challenge.

The Goodwood Estate is raising vital funds for Canine Partners with a number of events throughout the year.

On Wednesday 14 August, take part in a 5-mile run around the Goodwood Estate. There will also be a Junior race for 6-17-year-olds which will involve a 1-mile route around the Estate.

• Date: Wednesday 14 August 2019
• Location: Goodwood House, Kennel Hill, Chichester, PO18 0PX
• Time: Adult race: 7:15pm, Junior race: 6.45pm (race registration and car parts open from 5pm)
• Price: £18 per adult, £10 per child
• For more information and to register, visit the Goodwood website

Are you a budding golfer who would jump at the chance to play the course that is famously known as the birthplace of the Open Championship? Then look no further than the Canine Partners Prestwick Golf Day 2019!

This exclusive event is your chance to play on a stretch of golfing terrain unrivalled in the world – all while raising vital funds to help transform the lives of people with disabilities.

For further information, costs and timings for this event please get in touch with Cat Howourth using the contact information below.

• Date: Friday 3 May 2019
• Location: Prestwick Golf Club, 2-4 Links Rd, Prestwick KA9 1QG
• Contact name: Cat Howourth
• Contact number: 01530 225937
• Contact email: cathowourth@caninepartners.org.uk

There’s no lift, no escalator and no-one to carry you…get your blood pumping while raising money to train an amazing puppy to grow up to be an amazing assistance dog by taking part in a sponsored O2 Climb!

Kitted out in a climb suit, boots and harness you will become an ‘urban mountaineer’. Guided by the Up at the O2 team, you’ll have the unique chance to ascend to the top of the O2 along a walkway, suspended 52 metres above ground level…and we’ll be waiting to congratulate you on your challenge when you get back down!

Please note that places are limited to 30 people and cost £40 each with a fundraising target of £200 per person.

Date: Thursday 5th July 2018
Time: 12:30pm arrival, 1pm ascent
Tickets: £40 (Book via Eventbrite) 
Location: The O2, Peninsula Square, SE10 0DX, London
Contact name: Helen Watkinson
Contact number: 01530 225939
Contact email: helenw@caninepartners.org.uk

Book Now!