40 participants across 10 teams visited the centre near Wareham to battle it out across various activities including fly fishing, clay pigeon flushes, automatic air rifle shooting, archery, slingshot and welly wanging. Each player was received a Joker card to play at any time in order to double their score on a given activity.

Graham Brown, managing director at Purbeck Shooting School, said: “We are proud to host the Country Challenge and help to raise money for such a great cause. The team at Diverse Abilities are great fun to work with and we look forward to working together more in the future.”

Karen Hay, events manager at Diverse Abilities, added: “Everyone had a fantastic time getting competitive in the great outdoors and we are all so chuffed to be able to raise this much after such a difficult year in 2020. We’d like to give a huge thanks to Purbeck Shooting School for hosting the day, as well as to Hall & Woodhouse and Purbeck Ice Cream for their support and donations.”

Graham added: “If you’re looking to host a corporate shooting day, outdoor team building, or gain shooting experience, then our team at Purbeck Shooting School is more than happy to help, visit purbeckshootingschool.com to find out more.”

After a full day of countryside pursuits, ‘Jedi Force’ took away the trophy for winning team and one lucky winner also won a raffle on the day for eight cases of Hall & Woodhouse Badger Beer, winning a collection of Tropical Ferret and Forum Lager. 

Lucinda Gray, community relationship manager from Hall & Woodhouse, commented: “It’s great to see fundraising events gaining momentum once again, as well as supporting this event, we’re looking forward to hosting a pub quiz in aid of Diverse Abilities at our St. Peters Finger pub in Lytchett Minster later this month on Wednesday, July 14.”

Visit diverseabilities.org.uk/events for more details about upcoming fundraising events including art exhibitions, a pub quiz, the annual Rugby Lunch at Hoburne Park and more.