Profits to charity
Every penny of profit goes to Chance for Childhood. Your ticket covers food + a petrol contribution to your driver. We take £0.
★ £25 flat · covers food + petrol pool · join the WhatsApp community · this trip's profits → Chance for Childhood
The outdoor community for apprentices, students and young professionals. One mountain, one Saturday - and for this trip, every penny of profit goes to Chance for Childhood.
The southernmost peak of the Black Mountains in Wales. On a clear day the view runs from Pen y Fan to the Bristol Channel.
Every penny of profit goes to Chance for Childhood. Your ticket covers food + a petrol contribution to your driver. We take £0.
596m up Sugar Loaf in Wales, as a group. Well-marked path, real summit feeling, no scrambling required.
Halal beef smash burgers and veggie option, grilled fresh at the base when you come down. Earned by the climb.
36 apprentices and young professionals from Birmingham, Coventry, and across the West Midlands. Networking that doesn't feel like networking.
Drive or ride. Walk, eat, get home. Kit list emailed when you book. If you need a lift we match you with a driver based on your postcode.
Sugar Loaf is one of the easiest "real" peaks in the UK. If you can do a long walk in your city, you can do this. No prior experience needed.
£25 flat · drivers get £9 back per passenger · this trip's profits go to Chance for Childhood.
Same price whether you drive or ride. Drivers get £9 back per passenger from the petrol pool. For this trip, all profits go to Chance for Childhood.
£25 covers food + the petrol pool. Everyone joins the WhatsApp community before booking.
Questions about car-share? Drop a message in the WhatsApp community.
Trip 01 filled up. Gutted? Same. Drop your email and you'll be first in the door when Trip 02 opens. Or chuck a few quid at the charity anyway, since you scrolled this far.
One email when the next trip opens. No spam, no newsletter creep.
100% goes to Chance for Childhood. We take £0. No ticket, no admin fee, no Sprout cut.
Where we run comms for the hike, post photos after, swap kit, and warm up the next trip. Open to anyone, you don't have to book a spot to be in the room.
Join the WhatsApp communityIf yours isn't here, ping theapprenticehike@gmail.com. We reply within a day.
Yes. Sugar Loaf is genuinely beginner-friendly. We picked it specifically because it's one of the most accessible "real" peaks in the UK. The route is well-marked and the gradient is steady. On the day we split into pace groups by ability, each led by someone from the team, so you walk with people at your speed and nobody gets dropped. If you can do a long walk in your city, you can do this.
Walking shoes or boots (no Air Force 1s, this isn't that kind of walk), a waterproof jacket, layers, water bottle, breakfast and snacks for the day. See the full kit list →
Default yes. We cook halal beef smash burgers fresh at the base on a portable BBQ when you come down. Veggie option available. Anything else (vegan, gluten-free, allergies) just put it in the booking form and we'll sort it.
It's Wales. It might. We hike unless conditions are genuinely unsafe (high winds, lightning), in which case we move to a lower-level walk and you still get the burgers and the day out. If we have to cancel entirely, full refund.
Yes - full refund if you cancel up to 2 weeks before the hike. After that point we've already committed food and petrol per head, so we can't refund. If we cancel the hike entirely (e.g. unsafe conditions), you get a full refund regardless. Email theapprenticehike@gmail.com with your booking name to cancel.
Yes. They just book their own spot. The point of the day is meeting people you wouldn't otherwise, but pairs and small groups are welcome.
The team. We split into pace groups by ability - steady, mid, quick - and each group has someone from us leading it on the day. Sugar Loaf is a well-marked path with no scrambling or off-trail navigation, so the leads are there to keep the group together, pick the breaks, and call the weather. Bring sensible kit and follow your lead, you're sound. You're still responsible for your own safety on the mountain, same as any walk you'd do with mates.
Same £25 ticket whether you drive or ride. At booking you tell us "I'm driving" or "I need a car share" plus your postcode. Drivers can opt in to taking extra passengers we match them with - £9 back per passenger, refunded after the day, so a full car can mean meaningful petrol money. People who need a lift get matched with a driver in their area. We coordinate the final pickups in the WhatsApp group the week before. Questions? Drop a message in the WhatsApp community.
100% of profits from this hike go to Chance for Childhood — we'll publish the total raised after the day. Your ticket covers food and a petrol contribution to your driver; everything left over goes straight to the charity. Sprout takes nothing. (Future trips might pick a different cause or model — we'll always tell you up front. The Apprentice Hike isn't a charity itself; it's a community arm of Sprout.)