Macmillan 4x4 UK Challenge

The event has run since 2002 over one weekend in March each year and consists of a series of on road treasure hunts interspersed with off-road challenges.

In 2007 60 teams started (The maximum number that the organisers felt the event could maintain), and raised £110,000 The 2008 event covered approximately 800 miles and covered 5 countries - England, Wales, Southern and Northern Ireland and Scotland, the final total raised was £109,000 The event has been supported by a number of celebrities including Charlie Dimmock,[1] Lynn Bowles, Sunita Shroff, Julia Bradbury, Charlie Webster, Jaye Griffiths and Marisa Wayne the daughter of John Wayne.

Publicity for the event received a boost in August 2008 when TV presenter Julia Bradbury[2] agreed to be the celebrity driver for the March 2009 run.

Due to the cost of fuel, the event format was lower mileage than previously, with the majority of challenges being set in the Aberystwyth area.

In May 2010 it was announced that the year's event had raised a record £123,000 At the end of March 2010 it was announced that Marisa Wayne,[4] youngest daughter of the Hollywood actor John Wayne[5] would be competing as the co-driver in 'Team Duke'[6] for the 2011 10th anniversary run of the event which also marked the 100th anniversary of Macmillan Cancer Support.

After the organising team discovered that the 2011 celebrity co-driver, Marisa Wayne had never been to Ireland and that her favourite movie was her father’s The Quiet Man[7] the event was engineered to give her and all the other competitors the opportunity to visit Cong in Ireland the village where it was filmed, and see the scenery of County Galway and County Mayo.