The Barretstown Dublin Mountains Challenge is back for Summer 2020 and this year, we've a brand new and improved challenge for you! Join us for an incredibly unique fundraiser as the DMC embraces technology with our brand new self-guided Dublin Mountains Way App!
We've worked hard to bring you our new app-based challenge that will guide you along the Dublin Mountains Way route, safely and in your own time. Take part and help us raise vital funds for Barretstown.
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This is a safe, fun and interactive way to experience the Dublin Mountains challenge. Choose a time that suits you or your group, with the event now taking place over the course of September and October. The DMC has evolved for this year and we are asking you to evolve with us and sign up!
Those who support us this year will be a part of a very special group of supporters who are there to support us no matter the challenge.
Be part of a very special DMC event this year! ...
The Dublin Mountains Challenge is an annual fundraising hike for Barretstown. The route follows the picturesque and way-marked Dublin Mountains Way. The event starts in Sean Walsh Park in Tallaght and this year, you can choose to hike a 30km challenge, which finishes at Johnnie Fox's pub in Glencullen. Or choose a 42km challenge which finishes at Brady's in Shankill. Instead of a mass-gathering event on one day, our 2020 event offers a self-guided challenge along the route, using our brand new DMC app!
Enter the challenge as an individual or as a small group to form a team. Each person in the team can register to receive their own personal coded access to the app so you get to personalise your experience! By taking part in the Dublin Mountains Challenge, you will help to support Barretstown and Press Play on childhood for so many families that need our help now more than ever.
Once you have registered, you will be posted out your participant pack and emailed your own personal access code for the app, which will only be useable for one person and will be linked to the email address you gave when registering.
Start your training, set a date to take on the challenge and simply open the app at the starting line and the app will explain the rest!
If you are already registered for the annual DMC event:
Your access to the app and the administration fee is all completely free of charge to you this year as it will be covered by your pre-registration fee. However, we would love to invite you to fundraise in addition of this if you wish.
Entry fee for all new sign-ups for the 2020 DMC challenge:
A €35 registration for all, no matter what distance you are doing. In addition to the registration fee, all participants are being asked to raise a minimum of €100 whether you're participating as an individual or as part of a team in the 30km or the 42km route. The money you raise will go directly to fund our life - changing programmes of Therapeutic Recreation.
Sincere thanks from Barrestown for your vital support this year, more than ever
The COVID-19 crisis means that children with a serious illness like those who come to Barretstown, who are immune-compromised, are currently even more isolated. It also means they need Barretstown’s therapeutic programmes now more than ever before.
We are determined to keep the magic of Barretstown alive for these campers and so we have developed our new Barretstown Live programmes. This programme allows us to reach families from all over Ireland as we broadcast full days of camp, fun and engaging activities directly in to the safety of their homes.
Barretstown Live includes all aspects of our therapeutic programmes that make Barretstown so unique and allows us to support children suffering the effects of isolation due to their serious illness which the current situation is only making worse.
Childhood stops for seriously ill children, but by taking part in the Dublin Mountain Challenge 2020 you are helping us to Press Play on their childhood again.
Check out some participant stories below. ...
Meet Ruth. She took on the Dublin Mountains Challenge for Barretstown in 2017 and is looking ...
101 staff from Essentra Packaging took part in the 24k route of the Dublin Mountains Challenge for ...
Florence Cusack and her team have taken on the 24K route of the Dublin Mountains Challenge for the ...
Here are some links to some of the amazing organisations we've worked with to put together this amazing app! ...
Coillte is the state-owned organisation that manages Ireland’s national forests in a sustainable and environmentally sensitive manner, thus delivering benefits to local communities and the wider society.
Their motto is to Grow-Transform-Sustain. This year, the Dublin Mountains forest uplands that are under Coillte’s care are undergoing a regeneration to make a more diverse, resilient, multi-generational and sustainable amenity for nature and the public and this is known as The Dublin Mountains makeover.
Information on the Dublin Mountains Makeover is available on Coillte's website: https://www.coillte.ie/coillte-nature/ourprojects
The Dublin Mountains Partnership or DMP was set up in May 2008 with the ultimate aim of improving the recreational experience for users of the Dublin Mountains, whilst recognising the objectives and constraints of the various landowners.
The partner organisations involved are Coillte, South Dublin Co. Co., Dun Laoghaire Rathdown Co. Co., Dublin City Council, National Parks and Wildlife Service and the Dublin Mountains Initiative, an umbrella group representing the recreation users of the Dublin Mountains, since 2018 Fáilte Ireland has sat on the DMP Board. “
For more info on the DMP activities:
People looking for the Dublin Mountains Way completion badges from the Dublin Mountains Partnership can simply drop an email with their postal address to info@dublinmountains.ie and the DMP will post them out badges.
Also relevant to this challenge are the Leave No Trace organisation and the enviromental principles they uphold:
Plan ahead and prepare.
Be considerate of others.
Respect farm animals and wildlife.
Stay on designated trails.
Don't cause damage.
Bring your rubbish home with you.
