Step Up for OUSET – 3rd to 31st January 2025

Step into 2025, but joining us for the 2nd Step Up for OUSET Challenge!

The challenge will run over 4 weeks in January. Helping to promote physical and mental wellness during this difficult month.

If you missed the previous challenge, this is a virtual distance challenge – in which anyone can participate. Whether it’s walking, running, swimming, rolling, climbing, or chasing your toddler about the garden – if you can track your distance, you can take part.

All we ask to participate is you make a £2 donation to OUSET, via our participation form.

There will also be a JustGiving page, you can share within your circles, to help us reach our fundraising goal of £300.

Each Sunday, you can post your distances on the OU Fit Facebook Page, or send them directly to the OU Fit Club Lead Billy via email. These will then be tallied and updated on our event page, and the OU Fit Facebook Page.

This year we will be running the distance measure, as a relay across the four nations OU Offices. Counting how many times we can make it around the relay circuit together!

The circuit totals 1311 KM total, a circuit covering the following OU Offices:

• Milton Keynes OU Office
• Scotland OU Office
• Northern Ireland OU Office
• Southern Ireland OU Office
• Wales OU Office
• Milton Keynes OU Office

If you’d like to join the thriving OU Fit student community, you can find their page here - OU Fit | Facebook

If you’d like to get involved, or would like further information - please visit our event page.

EVENT PAGE LAUNCHING 22/11/2024

OUSET 3 Yorkshire Peaks Challenge – Friday 20th to Sunday 21st June 2025

After the success of the 2024 Challenge, we are running this Challenge again, over the weekend of 20th to 22nd June 2025!

The challenge day itself being held on 21st June 2025.

The aim of this challenge is to raise funds to support The Open University Students Educational Trust (OUSET). Which helps OU Students experiencing financial hardship, to continue their studies through its grant giving activities.

This year we hope to raise £3636, enough to fund a further OU module for an OU Student in need.

The challenge itself is to complete 24 miles of moderate walking/hiking, within 12 hours, covering the following 3 major peaks in Yorkshire:

• Ingleborough - 724m
• Pen-Y-Ghent - 694m
• Whernside - 736m

Over 1600m of ascent & descent.

We have 15 limited places available, for participants to purchase at £85.00 each to take part in our challenge. Each challenger will aim to raise £245.00 through sponsorship, to achieve our goal.

For more information or to purchase your place, please click the event page button.

Event page

OUSET 3 Yorkshire Peaks Challenge – Saturday 31st August 2024

This was a sponsored trek, in which participants raised funds to support OUSET’s work helping OU Students experiencing financial hardship.

The challenge was to walk 24 miles, within 12 hours across 3 of Yorkshires most beautiful peaks – Ingleborough, Pen-Y-Ghent and Whernside.

In total the 9 participants who took park, were able to raise an amazing £2,899.72 🙌!

We’d like to thank everyone who took part and contributed to this event, including the 114 supporters who donated to the cause.

You can read a personal account of the 2024 OUSET 3 Yorkshire Peaks Challenge here:

News article

Step Up for OUSET October - December 2023

This was a collaborative campaign working with the fantastic community within the OU Fit Club. Together we worked to raise awareness of, and funds for OUSET. Over 160 people participated in this campaign, sharing our just giving page with friends, family and their communities. We covered a whopping 18,076km, and raised £305.00, enough to purchase a laptop for an OU student in need! We plan to run another Step Up for OUSET challenge in the second half on 2024. Watch this space for more info!