Is your team ready for the Silkworth Extreme Challenge?

Wednesday 10 June 2015

Kayaking, running, coasteering, cycling and swimming around the Island is a tough job - is your team up to it?

Up to 200 bold Islanders will be travelling around Jersey on 5 September to raise money for the Channel Islands' only residential drug and alcohol rehabilitation centre.

Silkworth Lodge is bringing back an expanded Extreme Challenge this year, with more teams and tougher challenges facing the Islanders who take it on.

The last event raised more than £10,000 for the charity – and Silkworth are hoping for even more now that Rowlands Recruitment have come on board as the sponsors for the challenge. The challenge involves coasteering, running, cycling and kayaking around the entire Island in ten stages.

Half of the 20 team slots have already been filled for the event, and Silkworth already have inquiries from more teams who want to get involved – they say that anyone who wants to put in a team should contact Chief Executive Jason Wyse on 729060.

Mr Wyse says that they’re looking forward to the event.

“The first time that we ran the challenge in 2014 was hugely successful, and we want to build on that this year,” he said.

“Aside from raising awareness about addiction and providing a great day out for people, the £10,000 that was raised makes a huge difference to us and the work that we do to support Islanders struggling with drug and alcohol addiction issues, and their loved ones.

“We are absolutely delighted to have the support of the business community too – the sponsorship by Rowlands Recruitment will help us make the most out of this great event. Jeralie Pallot from Rowlands Recruitment has been extremely generous and I look forward to working with her on this challenge and hopefully future challenges also.

“We’ve also been listening to the feedback from the participants who took part in last year’s challenge, and have changed the number of teams and the number of people taking part. We want the participants to get as much out of this as they can – and we hope that the public will continue to get behind it with the kinds of generous donations that we saw last year, which really blew us away.”

Jeralie from Rowlands Recruitment – a leading local recruitment agency with a wide client base across all sectors of the Island community – said: “Silkworth Lodge's services to the community are absolutely invaluable and we’re proud to support them in what promises to be a memorable, fun and challenging event. We will be on hand on the day cheering the teams on and getting involved (in a supportive capacity of course!)”

Once the numbers have been finalised, full competitor packs will be sent out and initial Team Meetings will take place.

The Silkworth Challenge takes place in all 12 parishes, to reflect the ‘12 Step’ recovery programme used by the charity to help those that suffer with drug and/or alcohol addiction free themselves from substance dependency 
as the first step to a life of recovery.