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Wild Challenge – How to register, submit evidence and request certificates

Wild Challenge is a way to get young people out into nature, experiencing and helping wildlife. By completing a set of activities, you can work with your children (families and schools are welcome) toward achieving certificates for your work with and in nature

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How to take part

  1. Register with us so we can set you up with an account and understand a bit more about who’s taking part.    
  2. Look at Wild Challenge activities on the website for inspiration and get out into nature to start completing schools’ activities or family activities – our team can advise which counts towards each award scheme. 
  3. Submit evidence for the activities you’ve completed so we can see how you’re getting on. 
  4. Once you’ve done three Helping activities and three Experience activities, you can request a certificate. There are Bronze, Silver and Gold certificates to achieve. 

Please note

At the moment, our website is getting a refresh. While we wait for our new Wild Challenge system to be developed, we’re temporarily using email. Read on to find out how you can register for Wild Challenge, submit evidence that you’ve completed an activity and request certificates via email. 

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Register for Wild Challenge

To register for Wild Challenge, you must be 18yrs+ and you’ll need to email us some information so we can get you set up in our system. Please send the following in an email to: wildchallenge@rspb.org.uk 

  • Your first and last names 
  • The email address you would like on the account 
  • Whether you’re taking part as a school or family 
  • The name of the group taking part 
  • Your family’s postcode (for family registrations)
  • For school registrations only, please also provide:
    • The name of your school
    • The school’s address and postcode
    • Whether you’d like to receive our education newsletter.  

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Submitting evidence for activities

You can submit evidence that you’ve completed an activity (or activities) by emailing wildchallenge@rspb.org.uk. A member of our team will review your submissions and get in touch if there are any issues.

To submit evidence for your completed activity (or activities) please include: 

  • The email address on your account 
  • The name of the group taking part 
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You can submit evidence for multiple activities at once. For each activity you’re submitting evidence for, we ask that you include: 

  • The name of the activity (you can find this on the website) 
  • The number of children who took part in the activity 
  • A short description (50 words) of what you did 
  • An image attached to the email as your evidence 
  • Whether you’re happy for your image to be used by us for future marketing 

Please note, each activity will be moderated by our team, if there are any problems with the activities submitted, a member of the team will contact you. 

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Requesting a certificate

If you have already completed six activities (three Helping and three Experiencing) and would like to request a certificate, please send us an email including these details: 

  • The email address on your account 
  • The name of the group taking part 
  • The name of the child you would like on each certificate 

A member of our team will check the status of your activities and get back to you. 

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Why do wild challenge?
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