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Saturday 11th June 2022
Welcome to The Staveley 3 Valleys Challenge
The Staveley 3 Valleys Challenge (formerly The Sam Houghton Mountain Bike Challenge) is a timed charity mountain bike ride starting and finishing at the Mill Yard, Staveley and covering the Longsleddale, Kentmere & Troutbeck Valleys and taking in Garburn Pass.
Originally organised in memory of Sam Houghton, the event has raised over £200,000 for Cancer Research UK.
All proceeds from this year's event will again be donated to charity. The event continues to support Cancer Research UK (receiving 90% of the proceeds) and, post-pandemic we are also supporting worthy charities and good causes in Staveley (receiving 10% of the proceeds).
Originally organised in memory of Sam Houghton, the event has raised over £200,000 for Cancer Research UK.
All proceeds from this year's event will again be donated to charity. The event continues to support Cancer Research UK (receiving 90% of the proceeds) and, post-pandemic we are also supporting worthy charities and good causes in Staveley (receiving 10% of the proceeds).
LATEST NEWS
We're now The Staveley 3 Valleys Challenge!!
Everything else is staying the same - same challenging mountain bike routes, same friendly marshals, same great check-point cakes, same well earned party at the end! All proceeds will still go to charity, but as well as Cancer Research UK we will now also support other worthy charities and good causes in Staveley. So why change the name? The Sam Houghton Mountain Bike Challenge was set up by those that knew and loved Sam, after he sadly lost his battle against cancer aged only 22 in May 2006. A tremendous amount of effort has gone into organising and hosting the event each year since 2007, and in that time we've raised over £200,000 for Cancer Research UK. The time though now feels right to bring new energy to the event and to engage and pass the baton onto the next generation of bikers who may not have had a direct connection with Sam. We hope that changing the event name will allow us to make that connection and transition, to ensure the event goes from strength to strength! So get involved! Entries for this year's event open on 1st April. And if tackling the course on a bike isn't for you then we'd love it if you could volunteer to be one of our brilliant marshals! Look out for more info in the coming days and weeks on how to sign up for either. ----- Entries for the 2022 Challenge will open 1st April
After two years off due to the pandemic, we're really excited to confirm that we are all set for this year's event on Saturday 11th June and that entries will open on 1st April. If you paid for an entry for the cancelled 2020 or 2021 events and didn't request a refund, then you have automatically secured a spot in this year's event. We will contact those people by email over the next couple of weeks before entries open on 1st April to confirm. Hope to see you all there! ----- |