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Our emphasis on safety means we are not the cheapest but we think we are one of the safest out there. The benefits of going with ATD are:
- 7 days to summit (+1 more than our competitors) meaning better acclimatisation. Benefit – participants will feel better with our ascent profile and have a much better chance of summiting.
- We are open and transparent. Benefit – no hidden costs and you know exactly what you get for your money ££££
- A leader experienced at managing groups at altitude, and managing risk in wilderness environments. Benefit – brings UK safety standards to the event, gives a higher chance of summiting and reduces the health risks of climbing Kilimanjaro
- An UK trained doctor with experience of working at altitude. Benefit – dramatically reduces the risk of serious injury or death due to altitude related illnesses
- Gammo bag and O2. Benefit – immediate treatment for life threatening Cerebral and Pulmonary Oedema, reducing the risk of death.
- Route is chosen for rapid decent. Benefit – means better casevac options and reduced risk of serious complications resulting from altitude related medical conditions
- Fully inclusive – need to list all of the inclusions and tally them up to give the potential hidden costs of other suppliers. Benefit - no hidden costs ££££.
- Flights into Kilimanjaro airport saving 7 hours of transfers. Benefit – Chance to recover from the long haul flight leading to a better chance of summiting.
- Porter protection. We ensure that local staff are paid a fair wage. Benefit – peace of mind, and ethical
- Local agent with 30 years experience – benefit – Peace of mind, slick and well run event.
- 100% safety record on the mountain, even with some incidences of serious illness. Saved lives of other groups that did not have the same high level of support. Benefit – the highest medical support offered should you fall ill.
- High levels of support, advice and knowledge given to participants. High focus on getting you prepared fully for your challenge. Benefit – better chance of summiting.
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June 27th, 2011 | Adventure Travel, Challenge, Charity Challenge, Charity Challenges, Charity Events, charity trek, Comic Relief, Comic relief Kilimanjaro trek, Corporate, Corporate Event Solutions, Corporate Experience, corporate experiences, Corporate in the community, Corporate Social Responsibilty, CSR, CSR Projects, Endurance, fund raising ideas, fundraising, Just Events, Just for Fun, kilimanjaro, open event, Raise funds for the charity of your choice, Social Enterprise, Team, Team Building, teambuilding, Trek, trek for charity | No Comments | 
Our trekker of the month is Tricia McGrath, who has now completed two treks with Across the Divide. We asked Tricia some questions about her treks, motivation plus much more.
1. What made you want to do a charity challenge?
I’d done one before to Patagonia for Dublin Simon but this time I wanted to do it for another charity, Barretstown
2. Why did you choose Peru?
Peru has been on the wish list for some time, mainly because of Machu Picchu and the history of the Inca people. Also of the choice of open charity hikes Peru was top of the list. Some of the people on the Patagonia hike had glowing reports of the Peru trip so that also made the decision easy.
3. Why did you choose ATD?
I’d been on a previous hike with ATD in Patagonia and really loved the way they plan and deliver the hike. It’s first class all the way, camping, food, knowledge, local guides etc etc. In addition I’ve always felt safe and looked after on their hikes.
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June 21st, 2011 | Adventure Travel, Challenge, Charity Challenge, Charity Challenges, Charity Events, charity trek, Comic Relief, Corporate, Corporate Event Solutions, Corporate Experience, corporate experiences, Corporate in the community, Corporate Social Responsibilty, CSR, CSR Projects, Endurance, fund raising ideas, fundraising, Just Events, Just for Fun, open event, Raise funds for the charity of your choice, Social Enterprise, Team, Team Building, teambuilding, Trek, trek for charity | No Comments |
Just Walk is a fantastic one day charity walking event around the glorious South Downs. This fundraising walk is open to anyone who is keen to get their walking boots on and hike for charity – you can choose either 10km, 20km, 40km or 60km routes – so something for everybody. You choose your distance, choose your charity and Just Walk.
This charity walk offers enthusiastic walkers the chance to experience a breathtaking charity walk over the picturesque South Downs in West Sussex and generate funds for their chosen charity. Now in it’s 6th year!
As we like this event so much we are offering 2 free places on the 20km route (worth £100), all you need to do to be in with a chance to WIN these places is to RT our tweet to enter! We will pick a name from all our Twitter entries, at random, on Friday 15th July 2011.
June 20th, 2011 | cancer run, Challenge, Charity Challenge, Charity Events, Chichester, Corporate, Corporate Event Solutions, Corporate Experience, corporate experiences, Corporate in the community, Corporate Social Responsibilty, CSR, CSR Projects, fund raising ideas, fundraising, fundraising marathon, Just Events, Just for Fun, Just Walk, open event, South Downs Way, Team, Team Building, teambuilding, West Sussex | No Comments |
We have just received some great feedback from our recent trip to Kilimanjaro with Oxfam Ireland, it was a fantastic trip with a great group and with 100% success rate. Whoo Hoo!
Grace O’Neill from Oxfam Ireland who was on the Kilimanjaro Trek, 26th-9 March 2011 – “ALL SUMMITED”. Re Paul Collins the Expedition Leader – “motivational, inspiring and commanded confidence”. “Paul was great – took the time to know everyone in the group and was excellent at encouraging us to work together as a team. The group all acknowledged post-summit, that is was great they all made it up together, which is something very different to other groups experiences we had heard of. He inspired confidence in the team’s ability. He also was good fun in the evenings and kept people’s spirits up when they were tired.
I think he genuinely bonded with quite of few of the pax – it didn’t seem to be just another trek to him, he took time chatting to individuals.”
Tim Farrelly - “Summiting Kilimanjaro was a lifetime achievement which was only made possibly by ATD’s excellent itinerary and expert leadership.”
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June 14th, 2011 | Adventure Travel, Challenge, Charity Challenge, Charity Challenges, Charity Events, charity trek, Comic Relief, Comic relief Kilimanjaro trek, Corporate, Corporate Event Solutions, Corporate Experience, corporate experiences, Corporate in the community, Corporate Social Responsibilty, CSR, CSR Projects, fund raising ideas, fundraising, Just Events, Just for Fun, kilimanjaro, open event, Raise funds for the charity of your choice, Social Enterprise, Team, Team Building, teambuilding, Trek, trek for charity | No Comments |
Our Operations Manager recently headed up to Kilimanjaro and has written up a fantastic account of the trek.
One of the expedition leaders has been ripping the innards from the leader files, and we suspect it may be a certain Ceri Williams. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to accompany Mr Williams to Tanzania and to find out whether he is indeed the Leader-file-Ripper. And so it was that I found myself on the Cancer Research UK Kilimanjaro trek with Ceri, Sonya and Julia: my first overseas trip with Across the Divide.
The 7-hour bus journey from Nairobi to Moshi gave us a sense of the scale of the East African plains, and several opportunities to buy some small carved wooden animals. I had imagined that we would see Kilimanjaro looming on the horizon as we crossed the border into Tanzania, but it was not until the following day when we stopped at Mshuwa shop for Coca Cola that I got my first glimpse of Kilimanjaro poking its head out of the clouds.
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June 13th, 2011 | Adventure Travel, Challenge, Charity Challenge, Charity Challenges, Charity Events, charity trek, Comic Relief, Comic relief Kilimanjaro trek, Corporate, Corporate Event Solutions, Corporate Experience, corporate experiences, Corporate in the community, Corporate Social Responsibilty, CSR, CSR Projects, fund raising ideas, fundraising, Just Events, Just for Fun, kilimanjaro, open event, Raise funds for the charity of your choice, Social Enterprise, Team, Team Building, Trek | No Comments |
Fancy setting yourself a challenge this year? Take part in UNICEF’s trek for the Children of Namibia, which takes place in the stunning landscape of the Namib Desert, the oldest desert in the world; in southern Africa.
What is more, taking part in this trek is a unique opportunity for you to get to know more about UNICEF first hand. The visit to one of the UNICEF projects is a chance to see how much difference your support makes to the children of Namibia and just one of the many highlights of the trip.
For more information, please visit their website: http://www.unicef.org.uk/Fundraise/Get-active/Trekking/Namibia-trek/
Alternatively, contact them on 0844 801 2414 or email challenge@unicef.org.uk
Date – 30 August – 9 September 2011
June 6th, 2011 | Adventure Travel, Challenge, Charity Challenge, Charity Challenges, Charity Events, charity trek, Comic Relief, Comic relief desert trek, Comic relief Kilimanjaro trek, Corporate, Corporate Event Solutions, Corporate Experience, corporate experiences, Corporate in the community, Corporate Social Responsibilty, CSR, CSR Projects, desert trek, Endurance, fund raising ideas, fundraising, Just Events, Just for Fun, open event, Raise funds for the charity of your choice, Social Enterprise, Team, Team Building, teambuilding, Trek, trek for charity | No Comments |
FREE Triathlon Taster Session
We love working on new events with our charity clients. As you know we are helping Leonard Cheshire Disability with their new TRI Together event this September at Crystal Palace. Swim | Run | Bike – makes this the ultimate challenge event. Well our lovely friends at LCD are holding a FREE taster session this month – how nice are they? See below for more details – we’ll see you there!
New to triathlon or thinking about taking part in the Tri Together triathlon? Tri Together will be holding a FREE taster session on Saturday June 11th at Crystal Palace to give individuals the chance to try out the cycle and run course.
Triathlon coaches and experienced sports professionals from Pure Sports Medicine and St. Mary’s Tri Club, Bexhill will be on hand to give one-to-one advice for those taking part in a triathlon for the first time.
Thanks to Cycling Projects and Wheels for Well Being there will also be opportunities to try out sports wheelchairs and alternative cycles such as recumbent trikes, hand cycles & tandem bicycles.
Please note non-disabled participants will need to bring their own bicycles for the taster session.
To register for this free taster session, please email tritogether@lcdisability.org or call 02032420294.
To find out more about Tri Together, a unique triathlon for disabled and non-disabled people to swim, bike and run together or to secure your place in this exciting new triathlon visit www.lcdisability.org/tritogether
June 1st, 2011 | Adventure Travel, Challenge, Charity Challenge, Charity Challenges, Charity Events, charity run, charity trek, Corporate, Corporate Event Solutions, Corporate Experience, corporate experiences, Corporate in the community, fund raising ideas, fundraising, Just Events, open event, Raise funds for the charity of your choice, Social Enterprise, Team, Team Building, teambuilding, Trek, trek for charity | No Comments |
Our fantastic photographer at Just Walk, Richersea not only took great photos but kindly put together a great video. Hope you enjoy it!
Just Walk is now in it’s 6th year. It’s open to everyone wanting to fundraise for their charity of their choice and at the same take take on a walking challenge. There are four distances to choose from 10km, 20km, 40km and 60km so something for everyone. Sign up to Just Walk 2012!
Just Walk 2011 video
May 24th, 2011 | Adventure Travel, cancer run, Challenge, Charity Challenge, Charity Challenges, charity dog sledding, Charity Events, charity run, charity trek, Chichester, Corporate, Corporate Event Solutions, Corporate Experience, corporate experiences, Corporate in the community, Corporate Social Responsibilty, CSR, CSR Projects, fund raising ideas, fundraising, fundraising marathon, Just Events, Just for Fun, Just Walk, open event, Raise funds for the charity of your choice, Social Enterprise, South Downs Way, Team, Team Building, teambuilding, Trek, trek for charity, West Sussex | No Comments |
Just Walk number 5 – was a huge success! On 7th May, 700 walkers took part in our annual UK charity walk, raising funds for the charity of their choice. We had a huge number of charities represented from Parkinson’s UK to WellChild to Cats Protection to Pancreatic Cancer Research Fund.
The day started with thundery showers and finished with showers but that didn’t damper anyones spirit.
For the first time we also had 10km runners take part and the first two ladies across the line were knabbed by Spirit FM to do an interview – once they’d caught their breath.
We’ve already had our first sign-ups for Just Walk 2012 so why not join us on this wonderful event.
I just wanted to pass my thanks onto your for such an amazing day on Saturday. I travelled to Goodwood to complete the 60k walk, having never done this kind of distance before I was quite nervous about the day, and after 16 hours of hard, wet and sore trekking my friend and I finally crossed the finish line. But I can say with hand on heart we would have found it 100 times more difficult without the amazing support of your crew and volunteers, they were fantastic, the encouragement and support they offered throughout the walk (especially at night time when they were as tired as us!) was monumental. They always had huge smiles on their faces and did everything in their power to get us over the finish line. Thank you, thank you, thank you what a FAB day! If possible please pass on my thanks to all the crew and volunteers who helped out on the day. Thanks again your all amazing! Cassandra – 2011 Just Walker
May 23rd, 2011 | Adventure Travel, cancer run, Challenge, Charity Challenge, Charity Challenges, Charity Events, charity run, charity trek, Chichester, Corporate, Corporate Event Solutions, Corporate Experience, corporate experiences, Corporate in the community, Corporate Social Responsibilty, CSR, CSR Projects, Endurance, fund raising ideas, fundraising, fundraising marathon, Just Events, Just for Fun, Just Walk, open event, Raise funds for the charity of your choice, Runner, Running, Social Enterprise, South Downs Way, Team, Team Building, teambuilding, Trek, trek for charity, West Sussex | No Comments |
KIT 
Remember what to wear:
- Comfortable walking boots or shoes
- Suntan lotion
- Thin tops (several if required)
- Walking poles (not essential)
- Warm top
- Sunglasses
- Quality walking socks
- Water bottle
Also be prepared, it might rain and for night walking you may need some extra layers.
Remember to carry:
- Water 2 litres
- Waterproofs
- Sun hat
- Snacks
- Small first aid kit
- Spare warm top
- Camera
- Mobile phone
- Spare money
- Head torch (if 40km and 60km routes)
- Plastic bags for rubbish
May 4th, 2011 | Adventure Travel, Challenge, Charity Challenge, Charity Challenges, Charity Events, charity trek, Chichester, Corporate, Corporate Event Solutions, Corporate Experience, corporate experiences, Corporate in the community, Corporate Social Responsibilty, CSR, CSR Projects, Endurance, fund raising ideas, fundraising, Just Events, Just for Fun, Just Walk, open event, Raise funds for the charity of your choice, Running, Social Enterprise, South Downs Way, Team, Team Building, teambuilding, Trek, trek for charity, West Sussex | No Comments |
