In 2020 the UKs mass participation event industry came together with JustGiving to create The 2.6 Challenge, a nationwide fundraising campaign launched in response to COVID-19 to Save the UKs Charities.

This year The Mighty Creatives plan to host once again our very own 2.6 Mighty Challenge!

Ready to support us by taking on the 2.6 Mighty Challenge? Could you read 26 books in 26 days or game non-stop for 26 hours? In doing so you would be helping us to raise vital funds to support the most vulnerable children and young people across the Midlands.

So, on the weekend of the 25th April 2021, we would normally be celebrating the thousands of London Marathon runners making the 26.2 miles across London to raise vital funding for the UKs charities, just like The Mighty Creatives. But with the continued challenges of coronavirus epidemic it means yet again in early 2021 that so many fundraising events and activities, raising such important funds for children and young people, are at risk of not going ahead.

the 2.6 mighty challenge

Here at The Mighty Creatives we are taking the 2.6 Challenge to our own mighty level in 2021, using the campaign to help us awareness and raise vital funds to support some of our most vulnerable children and young people across the region.

Annually we support 1000s of children and young people living in poverty.We challenge the issues resulting from child poverty by providing access to, and progression through, arts, cultural and creative opportunities their lives would otherwise ill afford.

In short, we connect kids to culture so that they access vital resources and gain skills to find their creative voice and play their part in the world.

Our flagship Be Mighty Be Creative Campaign connects children to each other and to you, our supporters, so that their voices can be heard as part of the movement towards eradicating the inequalities brought about by child poverty.

This year our 2.6 Mighty Challenge will be raising funds in support of our Not Just a Box programme.

The Not Just a Box programme supplies Lets Create packs, boxes filled with creative resources tailored by age to support children to get creative in their homes. Each pack provides vital materials such as paper, pens, paints, craft kits and digital tools, resources which they would otherwise have limited access to outside of education.

Its Not just a Box

Importantly, its not just a box. Boxes delivered to the doorsteps of children in need provide that critical connection with the charity, where children and young people can access our support and the opportunities we can provide direct to their bedrooms.

A box provides the tools and resources and access to support from our skilled staff team and specialist Creative Practitioners, Mentors and Coaches via online and offline activities.

As a result, a Mighty Creative child in need accesses critical and timely support from The Mighty Creatives, developing their resilience and nurturing activity to sustain their wellbeing. In turn these children are supported to develop the confidence to come together with others to share their story and to take action in their lives and in the lives of others living in their shoes.

Ending Child Poverty

The Mighty Creatives proudly members of the End Child Poverty Coalition. The Campaign to End Child Poverty is a movement made up of organisations from civic society including childrens charities like ourselves, united in the vision of a UK free of child poverty.

To play our part, we give children creative voice to be heard using creativity as a means to express the inequalities living in poverty.

In turn though, we need your voice, your support, and your agreement that everyone should be able to access the essentials in life, to redress the poverty of access to arts and culture, experiences rich in opportunity and in helping to fulfil their life chances.

By taking on the 2.6 Mighty Challenge, together we can act together, we can build a future where no child goes without a creative childhood.

Together we can make a difference to young lives!