{"id":53322,"date":"2025-10-02T06:34:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T05:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bodyshopmag.com\/?p=53322"},"modified":"2025-10-01T14:07:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T13:07:50","slug":"ben-unveils-race-across-britain-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bodyshopmag.com\/2025\/news\/ben-unveils-race-across-britain-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben unveils Race Across Britain 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Automotive charity <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bodyshopmag.com\/?s=Ben\">Ben<\/a> has revealed details of its second <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ben.org.uk\/RAB26\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Race Across Britain<\/a> challenge.<\/p>\n<p>Inspired by the Race Across the World television series, Race Across Britain will see industry colleagues race to checkpoints across the country with a limited budget and without the use of planes and smartphones.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, teams of two will have to rely on public transport, walking and cycling to reach their destinations at quickly as possible.<\/p>\n<p>The challenge will take place next February, building on the success of last year\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bodyshopmag.com\/2023\/news\/ben-unveils-race-across-britain-challenge\/\">Race Across Britain<\/a>, which raised \u00a3100,000 for the charity.<\/p>\n<h2>Race Across Britain<\/h2>\n<p>Matt Wigginton, director of growth and development at Ben, said: \u201cWe can\u2019t wait to race again next year. As <em>Race Across Britain<\/em> revs up for 2026, our automotive family is called once more to test their mettle, support their colleagues and champion the charity that\u2019s there when they need it most.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201c<em>Race Across Britain<\/em> is full of fun, frenetic and wildly rewarding and it\u2019s a celebration of our community\u2019s creativity and competitive spirit. Every mile clocked up, every checkpoint reached and every pound raised matters.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Automotive charity Ben has revealed details of its second Race Across Britain challenge. Inspired by the Race Across the World television series, Race Across Britain will see industry colleagues race [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":53306,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[148,4913],"class_list":["post-53322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-ben","tag-race-across-britain"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyshopmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyshopmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyshopmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyshopmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyshopmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyshopmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyshopmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyshopmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyshopmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyshopmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}