It has been amazing to be able to support all of you in working towards your Duke of Edinburgh's Hillary Awards this year, we have really enjoyed seeing you all grow and develop your abilities throughout this valuable and life-changing experience. We can't wait to see what you get up to next!

Next Year marks 25 years of Auckland Challenge and 60 years of The Award! We hope to see lots of you achieving your Awards next year and perhaps taking on a new Challenge

The Auckland Challenge Office will be closed from the 22nd of December until the 9th of January. We won't be answering emails during this time. If you need anything for your Award or need any support including applying for COVID exceptions make sure you get in contact with us before the 22nd of December.

We rely on funding from the Ministry of Youth Development in order to keep running, they have requested that our participants fill in this survey to see how their funding is being used. We would appreciate it if you could take a couple of minutes to fill it in.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank all those who have been involved with supporting Auckland Challenge and our participants over the last year including all the Assessors and Parents for supporting the youth as well as the amazing teachers and volunteers working as Award Leaders with us!

We would also like to thank the following organisations for providing funding for participants:

• The Ministry of Youth Development
• Sport New Zealand
• Foundation North
• The Friedlander Foundation

We and our participants greatly appreciate your support 

Over the next few weeks Kathryn will be making contact with most of you to help keep you going with your Award, make sure you take up this opportunity when it arrives in your inbox.

If you are leaving school this year and currently log into the Online Record Book with a school email please let us know so that we can change your account to a personal email

linktr.ee/aucklandchallenge