Category Archives: Charity

08
Dec
2011

An Evening of Endurance

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Posted in Charity, Speaking
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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24
Oct
2011

Motivational Speaker needed in the North West this Thursday (27th October)

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A last minute call for anyone interested in giving a talk for a charity event in Manchester this week...
19
Oct
2011

Night of Adventure Bristol

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Posted in Charity, Pecha Kucha
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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07
Oct
2011

Night of Adventure Bristol

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Posted in Charity, Pecha Kucha
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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20
May
2011

Packrafting Iceland Pecha Kucha

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Posted in Best Bits, Charity, Iceland, Motivation, Packraft, slideshows, Speaking, Travel
20 slides and 400 seconds to explain my expedition across Iceland. You don't necessarily need skill, money or talent...
13
May
2011

Running Round the World in 400 seconds

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Posted in Charity, Expeditions, Health and Fitness, Photo Friday, Running
A short talk from Rosie Swale-Pope.
28
Mar
2011

Scottish Night of Adventure

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Posted in Charity, Pecha Kucha, Speaking
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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16
Mar
2011

Night of Adventure 3 – Thank You

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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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27
Feb
2011

Recycle Your Old Bikes

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Posted in Charity, Cycling
A great charity project that is sending old, renovated bicycles to poor regions of Africa.
10
Feb
2011

Explorers and Adventurers Lecture Night, a “Night of Adventure 3″

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Posted in Charity, Pecha Kucha
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...
04
Feb
2011

Fundraising Advice

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Posted in Charity
If you're planning to do an event for charity, here are a few tips.
06
Jan
2011

The Epic Triathlon

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Posted in Charity, Marathons
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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12
Dec
2010

Expedition for Bicycles for Humanity

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Posted in Charity, Cycling
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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06
Nov
2010

Hope and Homes for Children

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Posted in Charity
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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05
Sep
2010

Fundraising night for Pakistan

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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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13
Aug
2010

PK Friday 13th: Rowing Round the World

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Posted in Charity, Expeditions, Pecha Kucha
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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23
May
2010

Photographers for Charity

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Posted in Charity, Photography, Travel
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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18
May
2010

Night of Adventure 2 – thanks to the speakers

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Posted in Charity, Expeditions, Pecha Kucha, Speaking
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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09
May
2010

BBC Inside Sport on Phil Packer

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Posted in Channel Rowing, Charity, Expeditions
DON’T MISS A THING – FREE MONTHLY UPDATE BY EMAIL: Have you read Alastair’s books? Also available for Kindle, iPad and children.
21
Mar
2010

Launching the Bicycle Travel Network

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Posted in Charity, Cycling, RoundTheWorldByBike
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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