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An Evening of Endurance
On the evening of 2 February 2012, a collection of adventurers will assemble, at the Royal Geographic Society to take part in “An Evening of Endurance”. Each adventurer will entertain the audience for 15-20 minutes with their individual tales from epic journeys undertaken over mountains, oceans, deserts, ice caps and the world’s longest rivers. The [...]
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Motivational Speaker needed in the North West this Thursday (27th October)
A last minute call for anyone interested in giving a talk for a charity event in Manchester this week...
Night of Adventure Bristol
Thank you to everyone who came and supported Night of Adventure Bristol which was proudly sponsored by the Bristol office of national law firm Beachcroft LLP. A fantastic £12,000 was raised on the night for Hope and Homes for Children! A special thanks goes to all our amazing speakers – Benedict Allen, Dave Cornthwaite, Ann [...]
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Night of Adventure Bristol
A few more tickets have been made available for the Night of Adventure in Bristol on October 17th. Please do come along if you live nearby. Or if you know anyone in Bristol please forward this link to them. I really want to get yet another full house. It will be a great night. Look who is [...]
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Running Round the World in 400 seconds
A short talk from Rosie Swale-Pope.
Scottish Night of Adventure
The fourth Night of Adventure speaking event in support of Hope and Homes for Children will be held in Edinburgh on June 13th. There’s some great Scottish speakers involved already, including: Mark Beaumont Andrew Murray Pete Rhodes Simon Varwell Don Lennox (if he gets back from running across the USA in time) George Bullard Jamie [...]
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Night of Adventure 3 – Thank You
Thank you so much to all the people who helped make last night’s Night of Adventure event in London a great success. A special thank you to all the speakers who generously agreed to speak, free of charge, and who made the event so special: Oli Broom Bonita Norris Tristan Gooley Sam Dickinson Rosie Swale [...]
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Recycle Your Old Bikes
A great charity project that is sending old, renovated bicycles to poor regions of Africa.
Explorers and Adventurers Lecture Night, a “Night of Adventure 3″
On the evening of March 15th, 2011 a special event is being held at the Vue cinema in London's famous Leicester Square. A Night of Adventure 3...
Fundraising Advice
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The Epic Triathlon
One of my hesitations when deciding to spend 2011 pursuing microadventures around the UK was that perhaps I might feel starved of really tough challenges. How wrong I was. As an example of how a bit of imagination and madness can ignite mighty challenges, I want to showcase The Epic Triathlon project. The Bob Graham [...]
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Expedition for Bicycles for Humanity
It all began in 2003 with the dream of living and working on all seven continents of the world before the age of 30. Now that Hap Cameron has ticked off six of the seven, Africa is his final continent. He wanted to mark the completion of his goal by creating a project entirely different [...]
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Hope and Homes for Children
I’m really delighted to announce that the charity Hope and Homes for Children has invited me to be a patron. Hope and Homes for Children‘s mission is to give hope to the poorest children in the world – those who are orphaned, abandoned or vulnerable – by enabling them to grow up within the love [...]
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Fundraising night for Pakistan
On Tuesday night several people in the expedition world will be giving short talks about their adventures to help raise money for the Pakistan Flood Appeal. We’re using the same format of 20 slides that each scroll after 20 seconds as we did at this year’s Nights of Adventure for Hope and Homes for Children. [...]
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PK Friday 13th: Rowing Round the World
Enjoy Olly Hicks describing his various adventures, including running the Marathon des Sables carrying a shovel, his record-breaking slowest ever crossing of the Atlantic, and his audacious recent attempt to row round the world. DON’T MISS A THING – FREE MONTHLY UPDATE BY EMAIL: Have you read Alastair’s books? Also available for Kindle, iPad and [...]
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Photographers for Charity
I recently chatted with Rebecca Marsham of Photographers for Charity which enables photographers to offer a little of their time to attend ‘events’ and for charities to find and book them. Here she tells us more about the project. It’s a great idea and I would encourage all photographers to have a look at their [...]
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Night of Adventure 2 – thanks to the speakers
Last night was the second Night of Adventure, a fundraising event for Hope and Homes for Children. Fifteen speakers kindly gave up their time to present to an audience of 400 people at the Vue cinema in Leicester Square, London. Over the next weeks I will be sharing their talks on this site (like this). [...]
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BBC Inside Sport on Phil Packer
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Launching the Bicycle Travel Network
For a while now I have been trying to work out a way to start giving something back to this lifestyle I have taken so much from in recent years. I have had so many good experiences on my bike, though the learning curve was steep. On one of my first mini-trips, riding back to [...]
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