Help us create the next generation of climate leaders, thinkers and doers.

Employees and friends of The Climate Group are undertaking the Ultra Challenge Series' Jurassic Coast Challenge on Saturday 16th and Sunday 17th May to raise money for its Climate Interns Program. The Jurassic Coast Challenge is one of the toughest events in the Ultra Challenge Series - with 2,600m of climb across the 100km.

As an organization dedicated to addressing the worlds greatest challenge, The Climate Group recognizes the importance of creating a diverse and inclusive workforce in our sector. To solve climate change we need as many perspectives, ideas andthe best talent andsolutionsas possible. Increasing diversity is a key way of enabling this. So, in 2019, The Climate Group launched a new paid Climate Interns Program in partnership with Creative Access, a non-profit organization that specializes in placing individuals from BAME and other under-represented communities into sectors where we know diversity could be better.

To raise money for the Program, employees of The Climate Group took on the UKs greatest mountaineering challenge in 2019; the Three Peaks Challenge. Funds raised from the challenge helped recruit the first cohort of interns in 2019. Given the mountains that young professionals often have to climb early in their career, the Three Peaks felt like an appropriate challenge, and even more so when you consider the impact that climate change will have on this important environment.

This year, The Climate Group takes on a new challenge the Ultra Challenge Series Jurassic Coast Challenge, with the aim of raising money to continue to support the Program and welcome more interns in 2020.

Not only is supporting young professionals in this way the right thing to do; its right because getting ahead shouldnt be determined by where you come from or who you know.

We hope that you can support us with our challenge and enable us in turn to grow the next generation of climate leaders, thinkers and doers, who will ultimately determine if we solve this century's greatest challenge.