Top year for commando entries
Do you think you could take on the Royal Marine’s own endurance training course?
Fancy yourself as a bit of a Commando? Do you think you have what it takes? 2019 is on track to become a winning year for the two charities that run the popular yet demanding Royal Marines Commando Challenge event.
Devon Air Ambulance and RMA - The Royal Marines Charity - are welcoming record sign-ups to this year’s gruelling obstacle course, which is open to civilians to enlist on either the 5k or 10k route.
The circuit features 8 notoriously challenging obstacles and presents an opportunity for the untrained to take on the elite Royal Marines’ own endurance training course.
The event takes place on the weekend of 13th and 14th October this year and will be supported by an array of attractions and activities including the much-enjoyed dog show, which was a welcome fluffy addition to the end of the gritty endurance experience last year.
Entrants will take on a tough test of endurance that’s famous for rough Woodbury moorland, dark tunnels, muddy pipes and pools, and an underwater culvert. The course includes such adrenaline-inducing obstacles as the ‘Smartie Tube and the ‘Sheep Dip’.
Last year’s event raised over £67,000 as a whole in sponsorship - a significant increase on the previous year - and involved over 1,000 fearless fundraisers whose courage, determination and cheerfulness helped them tackle the world-famous commando tests.
Those who are ready to get their hands - and everything else - dirty by taking on the famously challenging obstacle course can enlist by visiting the Commando Challenge Website www.commandochallenge.co.uk
About Us
About The Royal Marines Commando Challenge
The Royal Marines Commando Challenge has been going for many years, however from 2016 the event has been owned by and raised funds for Devon Air Ambulance and The Royal Marines Charity.
About Devon Air Ambulance
- Our Mission: Relief of sickness and injury in the county of Devon and surrounding areas
- Our Vision: An outstanding Helicopter Emergency Medical Service, available to all, 24 hours a day
- Our Values: Our values are important to us because they inform our actions and our behaviour
Devon Air Ambulance Trust is the Charity which raises the funds to keep Devon’s two Air Ambulances flying. The service is 27 years old and is funded by the generosity of the community, businesses and friends of Devon. Last year it cost £7.5 million to keep the service flying, helping 1109 patients, of which 11% were children. The Exeter based aircraft operates until 2am every day and since it started flying into the hours of darkness over 118 patients have been helped at night time, using our growing network of Community Landing Sites. You can read more about our community landing sites here.
The Royal Marines Charity
Royal Marines have always been the first to understand, first to adapt and respond and the first to overcome – that’s the Commando Mindset but today Royal Marines and their families are fighting battles they cannot win alone.
OUR VISION
Royal Marines and their families supported through life.
OUR MISSION
To provide the best possible through life charitable support for Royal Marines, their families, veterans and cadets.
OUR PURPOSE
We are a single, unified and integrated charity for the Royal Marines extended Corps family, where cadets, the serving Corps, veterans and families are supported through life with benevolence, comradeship, transition support and amenities, underpinned with a cohesive sense of heritage and esprit de corps.
Contact details & further information
The Commando Challenge website
Get the latest updates by visiting the Commando Challenge Facebook page
For more information about the challenge speak to Devon Air Ambulance Marketing & Communications Manager, Sarah Burden, on 01392 466666 Ext *129 or email her on s.burden@daat.org
Devon Air Ambulance
5 Sandpiper Court
Harrington Lane
Exeter
EX4 8NS
Contacts
Sarah Burden
Marketing & Communications Manager
s.burden@daat.orgDevon Air Ambulance
Phone: 44 01392 466666 Ext *129