Street Rocks Journey To the Moonboard

A few months ago a few of our climbers were talking about how great it would be for us to have a Moonboard – a technical training board focusing on strength and technique mainly for outdoor climbing.  We’d done a sponsored 24 hour Climbathon before, when we were trying to raise funds for Street Rocks, so we thought we’d try again – lets try and raise £10k to buy a Moonboard for Street Rocks.

So on the Weekend of 25/26 October 2025 20 intrepid climbers set out to circumnavigate the moon (1km = 1m climbed) to raise the funds we needed.  We also needed to gather a ‘crowd’ of at least 50 and raise £5k from that ‘crowd’ to release £5k pledged by Sport England.  We’re delighted to say we did it – we smashed our climbing target…and our fundraising target 🙂

Exactly one month after completing our challenge we received delivery of our Moonboard – thanks to Moon Climbing for a great service.

Thanks so much to our climbing community, our ‘crowd’, all the sponsors who helped us out:

• Ashbrowns for our breakfast sandwiches;
• Wendy’s Bakehouse for furnishing us with cakes;
• Scarborough Building Plastics for lending us a forklift and helping hands to unload our Moonboard;
• Lesley Armour for post-climbathon massages and donating the money to our cause;
• Get Taped Up for the magnificent finger tape, and
• Gekco for the best chalk.
• Thanks to Scarborough round Table for their £1k donation on the day and to
• Sport England for believing in us and matching our £5k raised.

We love you all and couldn’t have done it without you.  This is the power of community. This is the power of climbing.

Here’s our Journey to The Moonboard: