[CUCBC Captains] BRIT Challenge - Request for support from Boat Club Captains

[Phil Packer]

Dear Boat Club Captains,

The BRIT Challenge starts today and finishes on the 3rd March 2022 (Univerity Mental Health Day).

Every UK university and college are invited to enter teams at www.TheBRITChallenge.org.uk<http://www.TheBRITChallenge.org.uk> and encourage as many students and staff as possible to take part, and complete 2,022 miles as teams.

There are many ways to take part in the BRIT Challenge, including rowing, adaptive rowing, swimming, cycling, walking jogging and running.

We have almost 200 BRIT Ambassadors (Olympians, Paralympians, Elite Athletes, Adventurers and Explorers) who are championing the annual BRIT Challenge, encouraging participation and helping to destigmatise mental health. Four of our BRIT Ambassadors graduated from Cambridge and are keen to support and encourage students and staff who enter teams including;


  *   Dr Cath Bishop
  *   Henry Fieldman
  *   Tom Ransley MBE
  *   Mellisa Wilson

This year we are inviting university and college teams to choose a second charity to raise funds for, alongside BRIT, to support local, regional and national charities.  We have special relationships with the British Olympic Association, British Paralympic Association and British Rowing.  We have also developed a special relationship with Love Rowing.

I would be sincerely grateful if you would consider entering teams in the BRIT Challenge this year, asking your rowing squads to add their distance to your 2,022 mile targets and act as catalysts to encourage fellow students and staff at your colleges to take part; I very much hope that this is an opportunity to assist with improving and supporting student and staff mental health and fitness throughout every college campus.

Many Vice-Chancellors (and hopefully college Wardens, Deans and Masters) are planning on completing the first mile with their SU (JCR/MCR) Presidents which is a great way of engaging students and staff – perhaps there is scope to invite them to your Boat Clubs and get them on the water with your rowers.

There is also the option of one united University of Cambridge team taking part with students and staff from every college and Boat Club adding their miles to a University of Cambridge 2,022 mile BRIT Challenge target. Colleges at the University of Oxford are taking part and it would be tremendous if you would encourage participation.

I have attached a BRIT Challenge How To Take Part PDF and would be very happy to join a Teams Call once you have a BRIT Challenge Coordination Group in place; I can share some successful ways other universities and colleges have taken on previous BRIT Challenges and hopefully enthuse and inspire your students and staff to take part.

With my very best wishes,

Phil

Phil Packer MBE (mil)
Founder and Non-Paid CEO
The British Inspiration Trust (BRIT)
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The British Inspiration Trust (BRIT) exists to support young adult mental health and fitness throughout the UK. As the mental health challenges faced by young adults and students continues to increase, which have been compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic, improving young adult mental health and fitness is vitally important.

BRIT continues to deliver our annual feelgood February fundraiser, the next being an inclusive team 2,022 mile challenge, with three aims;


  *   Support student mental health, fitness & wellbeing and reduce feelings of isolation and loneliness
  *   Deliver inspiration to young adults, and destigmatise mental health, with the support of BRIT Ambassadors
  *   Raise vital funds for local, regional and national charities

Registration is now open for the BRIT Challenge<https://www.thebritchallenge.org.uk/>, taking place between 1st February and 3rd March 2022 (University Mental Health Day). Every UK university, college, specialist college and Students’ Union are urged to embrace the Challenge, enter teams and invite their students and staff to participate.

Many charities have felt the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.  As a collaborative charity, BRIT are inviting every university and college team taking part in the BRIT Challenge to choose a second charity to raise funds for, alongside BRIT, to support local, regional and national charities. Over the past two years, almost 180 university and college teams have taken on BRIT Challenges.

Olympians, Paralympians, Sports Personalities, Adventurers and Explorers continue to join the BRIT Ambassador family and over 150 have joined BRIT this year to support young adult mental health. BRIT Ambassadors promote the BRIT Challenge at a university and/or college of their choice, encourage student participation, share their lived experience to destigmatise mental health and champion equality, diversity and inclusion.

Thank you to all our BRIT Ambassadors and the sport and education governing bodies and charities who we have built partnerships and special relationships with.

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