Southern 50 Last Day Registration
HOW TO ENTER*
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Entry Fee is £125 + £7.50 booking fee per team
Registration opens on 25th October 2024
Registration closes midnight on 31st January 2025
Entries are subject to event capacity, we strongly suggest not leaving it too late to avoid disappointment.
The entry fee for this year’s event is £125 + £7.50 booking fee per team, regardless of whether there are three, four or five participants, and includes the following:
Indoor accommodation on Friday and Saturday night.
Cooked meals for Saturday breakfast and evening meal, and Sunday breakfast.
Drinks and snacks at most checkpoints.
Transport (where necessary).
Communications and Administration.
Certificates and Individual Trophies for the winners.
ELIGIBILITY
Each team must comprise of between 3 – 5 participants, all of whom must be members of The Scout Association or Girlguiding UK.
Each participant must be at least fourteen years old on the day of the event for the 50mile and 50km events.
Participants for the 30km event must be thirteen and a half years or over but have not reached their eighteenth birthday on the day of the event.
CONDITIONS OF ENTRY
The Team Manager must be over 18 years old
Entries are made via a 3rd party online entry system – Results Base. Results Base Ltd. will hold the personal information provided by participants for the purposes of maintaining registration information for Southern 50 Challenge only.
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Payment will be taken by credit/debit card via the Results Base on line entry system.
Any participants 18 years or over on the day of the event must supply their Scout Association membership number. This will be checked against Compass. Changes to adult team participants and the team name cannot be made later than 14 days before the event.
For a team withdrawing before the closing date a full refund will be given (excluding the booking fee).
The Southern 50 Challenge*
The annual Southern 50 is a prestigious challenge hike, one of the longest running events of its type in Scouting.
A navigation event in the Chiltern Hills every year since 1980, through the counties of Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Oxfordshire, organised by Greater London North Scout County.
There are three routes, 50mile and 50km open to all and a 30km route exclusively for Explorer Scouts.
The event is a test of good orienteering skills as well as physical ability and teamwork and unlike other well-known hikes the routes are different each year and so local knowledge will not be of help as the route will not be disclosed until the day of the event. All teams therefore start with exactly the same chance of winning a trophy.
Like any other long-distance challenge, the effort required to last the full course and receive a finishing certificate is an achievement.
Many like to return to have another crack at the trophy or just to improve on their time. Whatever the reason, you will enjoy our challenge and, we are sure, find the event very rewarding.