Enduro3 - Extreme Outdoors

August this year will see Sip attempt his latest challenge, raising vital funds for two fantastic charities. A world first, he will solo paddle the entire Great Glenn from Fort William across the entirety of Scotland to Inverness, a distance covering 96 km. From there, he will turn and bike the trail route back, another 125km, before leaving the saddle for the final return leg, a distance of over 300km.

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Fundraising for Two Charities

This mammoth event, to be completed in seven days with no sleep or rest, will aim to raise vital funds, and awareness, for two lifesaving charities. Combat Stress is a charity supporting service personnel and veterans with PTSD, anxiety and depression. Seven days of pain in this endurance challenge is nothing compared to what our service personnel and veterans go through on a daily basis, both mentally and physically, suffering in silence.

The Bowland Pennine Mountain Rescue Team is another charity close to Sip’s heart, who play a vital role in saving lives. With an operational area spanning over eight hundred square miles, volunteers provide an essential, life saving emergency service to the people of Lancashire and beyond, providing search and rescue and medical treatment in challenging terrain. Funding is raised entirely through donations from the community and local businesses.

Unfortunately, having recently lost his wife to suicide, a former army veteran, Sip has been diagnosed with Complex PTSD and is now getting vital life saving support from Combat Stress. Fundraising for this charity is personal to him, even prior to leaving the services. For over a century the charity has been helping former servicemen and women deal with the effects of their military service, providing specialist treatment and support for veterans from every conflict, focusing on those with complex mental health issues. Now more than ever, veterans need them, and they need you.

Sip has recently achieved a twenty year dream to be part of the mountain rescue, having just been selected as an aspirant within the Bowland Pennine Mountain Rescue Team. In recent years, the charity has increasingly been called upon to conduct searches for vulnerable missing people in urban and remote areas, working alongside other emergency services including the ambulance and fire service. Additional funding to sustain training, equipment and improve facilities will support the charity for years to come, saving lives on the ground now and into the future.

Follow the Journey

Follow the journey, as we lay the foundations in the coming months to successfully complete the challenge. Whilst the paddling, biking and run is being endured by one man, there are a team of people who are donating their time and efforts to ensure that the event happens on time and to plan. Sip has now started training and this page will be updated with further details in due course. In the coming weeks a new donation page will be setup, but you can still donate towards previous challenges. Enduro3 follows the successful completion of Enduro214, recently nominated for Endurance Event of the Year at the JustGiving Awards. Find out more about that event below.

Event Sponsors

The following businesses and organisations have supported us on our journey, in the aim of raising funds and awareness for worthy causes. We are massively grateful for the support, and welcome other businesses to join the team.

Web Studios Ltd

This website and all of our marketing materials have been crafted with love by one of our key sponsors, who have supported us over a period of months to bring our design vision for the company to fruition. Web Studios is a long established website design and marketing agency based in Lincolnshire, specialising in website design, online marketing and brand promotion.

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Motif8

Our active wear, training gear and branded clothing have all been supplied by Motif8, an established workwear company based in Stockton on Tees, who specialise in embroidered and printed clothing. The owner of the business is a great supporter of the armed forces, and previously served a full colour service in the army. They are currently one of the biggest suppliers of clothing for the military.

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Signs Express

We were thrilled by the service offered by Signs Express in Preston, who supplied and installed our van graphics earlier in the year. Sponsoring our company by providing a discount on services provided, we thoroughly recommend the company for the supply of printed or vinyl cut graphics, with special thanks to the management team at the Preston branch for their understanding and enthusiasm.

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Opal Access

This fantastic company offers a range of specialised rope access services, with work carried out by appropriately qualified personnel working throughout the country and around the continent. All team members are fully qualified IRATA personnel with extensive experience and technical training in rope access, specialised in maintenance and repair and building inspection techniques.

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Chamois Consulting

Chamois Consulting is based in Bristol, operating across a broad spectrum of sectors including engineering, defence, aerospace, energy, automotive, motorsport, marine, leisure and travel. They work together with clients to define and deliver strategies to achieve their aims, win business and grow. The CEO Jamie Clarke was Sip's first ever Troop Commander and remained an inspiration to him ever since.

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Remote Trauma

Remote Trauma is a London based, solution centric organisation providing a dedicated and personalised service for complex production risks. The company takes pride in always going above and beyond, which is why they are viewed as best in their class by many. Sip has worked for the company as one of their rope access specialists, selected for his professional mountaineering and rope access expertise.

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AJ Services Engineering

An established fabrication company, built upon an envious reputation through the construction and rail industry, this company deals with all areas of fabrication, providing a fast and efficient turnaround to meet client requirements based on experience and expertise. Company director James is a fellow member of the Polaris Mountaineering Club who Sip recently guided during the PMC Winter Meet.

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Expedition Foods

Established in 1995, Expedition Foods provides quality freeze-dried meals to internationally acclaimed explorers, rowers, sailors, endurance athletes and mountaineers, as well as military personnel and rescue teams around the world. Sip has been using arctic style rations supplied by the company for many years, proven to keep his blood sugars at the right level after arduous activity whilst on exercise, expeditions and ops.

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Hat Trick

Hat Trick Productions was founded in 1986 and has grown into one of the country’s leading producers of comedy, drama and entertainment, regularly bringing to the screen distinctive and popular series. Sip met the Managing Director, Jimmy Mulville who absolutely grasped the issues with mental health that Combat Stress are trying to support. Secretly Sip is also a big fan of the Derry Girls, but don't tell anyone.

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Patron

Established in 1999, Patron Capital Partners has evolved into one of the leading opportunistic real estate managers in Europe. Since its founding, Patron has raised a total of nearly five billion euros from institutional and high net worth investors around the globe. Sip was fortunate to meet the CEO Keith Breslauer who is the Vice Patron of the RMA-Royal Marines Charity and a senior patron to multiple veteran and outdoor related charities. Patron and Keith are sponsoring and helping to raise the profile for Combat Stress.

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Lyon Equipment

Way back in 1965, Ben Lyon, aided by engineer brother Graham, started making caving ladders. Lyon are now a leading distributer of quality climbing, mountaineering and other outdoor equipment to retailers throughout the country. Sip has used Lyon for many years to purchase all his La Sportiva footwear, and will be wearing the new Jackal II Boa for the journey. Lyon have provided all his ultra lightweight exped gear.

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