Who are we?
Set up by wounded veterans for other wounded, injured and sick veterans and service personnel, Climb2Recovery is a charity that offers climbing courses to help with both physical and mental recovery. We aim to make the sport more accessible to both beginners and experienced climbers, whatever their current abilities.
Much more than that though, through climbing we want to build all-important support networks. Many of the veterans that climb with us have stayed on as part of our community, taking part in multiple courses, and the hope is that the friendships and contacts they make will lead to them finding lifelong climbing partners as well as peer mentoring and training opportunities.
Why are we crowdfunding?
C2R provides an exciting year-round programme of climbing and mountaineering that enables a variety of opportunities to get outdoors, make friends, learn skills, gain qualifications and paid work experience. Our impact is broad and far reaching, greatly improving the fitness, well-being, social functioning, self-confidence and life outlook of our members, leaving them more likely to try and learn new things, encouraging them to test themselves in challenging and new situations, and greatly improving empathy and life at home.
How you can play your part
There are four simple ways to help us reach our target, and make this project a reality.
1. Make a pledge. Don’t delay if you’re going to support us because momentum is key to our success!
2. Spread the word. Share our project on your social media pages and tell the world to get behind us! The more people we reach, the more support we will get.
3. Offer rewards. Get involved if you are a local business by donating things we can offer to our supporters. We will give you a shout out!
4. If you want to run your own fundraiser to support us, maybe a sponsored activity or similar, use the 'contact project' button at the top of our page to let us know. Setting up your own page only takes a few minutes and you won’t need any bank details. Just a fun idea!
How we’ll spend the money raised
The C2R Regional programme is a list of local events throughout the UK, it exists to support the main programme of events throughout the year.
This could be an evening at a climbing wall or a day on Stanage, of course, it is weather dependant as usual.
This allows members to meet and socialise on the local level.
Community impact
Through climbing we want to build all-important support networks. Many of the veterans that climb with us have stayed on as part of our community, taking part in multiple courses, and the hope is that the friendships and contacts they make will lead to them finding lifelong climbing partners as well as peer mentoring and training opportunities.