Guidance

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Event planning

This section covers the essential planning elements that transform your vision into a safe, legal, and transformative experience.

• About this section
• Event planning overview
• Understanding roles
• Staying true to the vision
• Informed consent
• Risk assessments
• Safeguarding
• Legal issues
• Legal compliance for different contexts
• Securing business sponsorship
• Managing challenge finances
• Interfaith and inclusive adaptations
• Managing mixed-ability groups
• Media planning
• Realism versus ethics
• Equipment and supplies checklist

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Health and safety

Keeping participants safe while preserving the challenge’s transformative power requires understanding the difference between meaningful discomfort and genuine danger. This section helps you navigate health…

• About this section
• Health and safety overview
• Avoid winter
• Fasting
• First aid
• Respect limits
• Staying safe
• Staying well
• Timing
• Weather contingency planning
• Crisis management during the event

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Venues and routes

The physical spaces where your Trials & Tribulations challenge unfolds — from the intimate gathering venue to the muddy trails and challenging assault course —…

• About this section
• Venues and routes overview
• Gathering venue
• Trek route
• Assault course venue
• Potential assault courses
• Natural obstacles

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Building your team

The heart of any Trials & Tribulations challenge lies not in the obstacles or the routes, but in the people who come together to face…

• About this section
• Building your team overview
• Nuturing participants
• Nominating participants
• Reluctance is good
• Grassroots first
• Family support
• Tips on encouraging participation

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Travel and transport

Getting your team safely between venues while maintaining the challenge’s spirit requires thoughtful transport planning that balances practical logistics with meaningful experience. This section helps…

• About this section
• Travel and transport overview
• Getting there and back
• Car share
• Minibus hire
• Public transport

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Fundraising

While the personal transformation and community building are invaluable, the practical impact of your Trials & Tribulations challenge comes through the funds raised for supporting…

• About this section
• Fundraising overview
• Do it for charity
• Fundraising platforms
• Promoting your cause
• Talking to a charity about your fundraiser
• Sample fundraising page
• Sponsorship and fiqh considerations
• Social media promotion

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Event briefing

Two weeks before your challenge is the crucial time for detailed participant preparation. This section provides templates and guidance for briefing participants on everything they…

• About this section
• Event briefing overview
• Briefing participants on what to wear
• Briefing participants on what to bring
• Briefing participants on meal planning
• Briefing participants on the itinerary
• Fitness plan for particpants

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On the day

The day of your Trials & Tribulations challenge is when all your planning transforms into lived experience. This section guides you through facilitating each stage…

• About this section
• On the day overview
• Leadership on the day
• Facilitating the gathering
• Managing the trek
• Guiding participants through obstacles
• Managing the return journey
• Facilitating evening meal and reflection
• Final prayers and departure

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Active roleplay

This guide is aimed at the challenge leader(s). As a leader guiding your group through the assault course, your role is crucial in maintaining the meaningful…

• About this section
• Active roleplay overview
• Uncomfortable sleep
• Embracing discomfort
• Balance beams
• Barbed wire crawl
• Cargo net climbing
• Crawling under cargo netting
• Crawling under logs
• Heavy carries
• Muddy ditches
• Platform jumps
• Rope swings
• Tackling the tyre wall
• Tunnel crawling
• Tyre obstacles
• Wall climbing
• Water wading

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Problem solving

Every Trials & Tribulations challenge presents unexpected situations that require sensitive, practical solutions. This section prepares you for the human challenges that arise when people…

• About this section
• Problem solving overview
• Maintaining modesty during the challenge
• Managing moods and emotions
• Supporting participants who are menstruating
• Building confidence in hesitant participants
• Supporting participants going through menopause
• Boosting iman through the challenge
• Gentle persuasion techniques

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Post-event

The end of your Trials & Tribulations challenge marks the beginning of its lasting impact. This section guides you through the crucial post-event period that…

• About this section
• Post-event overview
• Check-in and follow-up after the challenge
• Follow-up discussions and lessons learned
• Organising the formal charity dinner celebration
• Creating and sharing media content

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Resources

You can freely download and use the resources in this section. Where possible, please credit refugee.run as the source, as outlined in licensing and attribution.

• About this section
• Sample participant consent form – London iSoc
• Sample parental consent form – school challenge
• Sample participant consent form – Tough Mother
• Sample participant information pack
• Sample participant consent form – Tough Muslimah
• Sample guidance for particpants
• Sample promotional material
• Sample media consent form
• Suggested routes
• Photos for challenge promotion
• Artwork for challenge promotion

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Resources

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