Oxfam Trailtrekker – 100km team charity challenge
Oxfam Trailtrekker is the 100km charity challenge across the Yorkshire Dales national park, starting and finishing in Skipton.
More about Trailtrekker
Teams of four trek through the night to complete the course in under 30 hours. It’s an amazing experience that combines endurance, navigation, determination, and teamwork, into a truly memorable achievement.
Trailtrekker will test you and your team physically as you take on this charity challenge and creatively as you work on hitting your fundraising target.
Check out the interactive trail guide. You can visit various points around the course and experience what makes this an incredible charity challenge.
Four stages to sign up for Trailtrekker
Do you think you are ready to take on Trailtrekker? This charity challenge will bring your team closer together and take you further than you can imagine.
Registering for Trailtrekker is easy – just click on the button below and good luck!
If you’d like to support Trailtrekker 2010 as a volunteer, click here to register your interest – thanks!
What you're signing up to
- To take on the UK’s toughest team charity challenge.
- To walk a very, very long way!
- To change peoples lives with the money your team raises.
What you need to sign up
- The details of the three people to complete your team of four. Share with friends.
- Someone to lead your support crew.
- To sign up to hitting the minimum fundraising pledge of £2,000. With £1,000 paid to Oxfam by 5 May 2010.
How do we raise £2,000? - A credit or debit card to pay the £200 registration fee (£100 if you register before 30 November, £150 if you register before 31 January).
- To agree to our terms and conditions.
How we’ll support you
- Regular email and facebook updates to help with your training and fundraising challenges.
- Detailed fundraising resource on this website with downloads, links and tips.
- Pre-walk face-to-face preparation meetings with updates on all aspects of the challenge.
- Team leader conference calls to discuss final preparations.
- Food, massages and cheering to help you around the course!
What happens after sign up?
- We’ll send out a welcome pack to all team members.
- All the team will start to get emails from us to prepare you for your walking and fundraising challenges.
- We’ll send you a Trailtrekker tee-shirt and Training and Event guide in early March.
Related links
- Frequently asked questions
- Something flatter? Trailwalker charity challenge
- Something shorter? London Marathon 2010
- Support Trailtrekker and Oxfam, volunteer with us.
- For all general enquiries or to give us feedback, email us.
Why walk in 2010?
We think Trailtrekker is great, and that you will come out the other side with an incredible achievement, closer friends and having raised vital money for Oxfam. But don’t take our word for it – here’s what last year’s Trailtrekkers had to say!
2009 Trailtrekkers – what they said
"I helped organise Trailwalker in 2001, I walked Trailwalker in 2008 and now I want to complete TrailTrekker in 2010. It is an awesome experience, no other way to describe it."
Why are you taking part in Trailtrekker?
If you have signed up – share your motivations for walking with others who are still thinking about it. Convince them here!
Volunteer at Trailtrekker
An essential part of the Trailtrekker charity challenge are the fantastic volunteers, who play a key role in making the event a success.
For 2010 we need over 300 of them, so let us know if you're interested and we will get back to you. You’ll be making a real contribution to Oxfam’s work, while having a memorable and worthwhile weekend.
Online community
Keep informed with the latest updates, get a team together and check out the photo's from 2009.
Facebook - Almost 200 members. Find a team, organise a walk and keep informed.
Flickr - All the photos from 2009.
Where the money goes
Fundraising is at the heart of this challenge and we know that you care where your money goes and that we are using it well.
By supporting Oxfam through your efforts in the Trailtrekker charity challenge we can further our work of supporting people working their way out of poverty around the world.
Your help really makes a vital difference. Together 100km events around the world have raised over £45m.
Live feed
On the day of the event we host a live blog that lets your supporters around the world track your progress. They can see which checkpoints you have reached and send messages of encouragement. The blog was a great success in 2009 and is an ideal way for your supporters to get an experience of the challenge your going through.
Related links
- Frequently asked questions
- Something flatter? Trailwalker charity challenge
- Something shorter? London Marathon 2010
- Support Trailtrekker and Oxfam, volunteer with us.
- For all general enquiries or to give us feedback, email us.
Team Area
Here you will find all the resources you need to get your team together and your fundraising started. Trailtrekker is the ultimate team charity challenge and takes place around the world.
Who is Trailtrekker for?
Trailtrekker is a team charity challenge for everyone. Well almost everyone.
You need to be over 18 on the day of the event and need to be reasonably fit. The Trailtrekker charity challenge is not just for the super fit (although plenty of super-fit people do take part).
Every year we have teams from all backgrounds and all shapes and sizes. And to help as many people finish as possible we provide lots of training advice, including training guides for all levels of walker.
What makes up a team?
One team leader. To organise and prepare the team, to act as the main point of contact with Oxfam, to lift team spirits during training and the challenge. An all-round good egg.
Three fellow walkers. To complete your walking team. Make sure everyone brings a quality to the team, whether it’s energy, enthusiasm, organisational skills, fundraising ideas, map-reading skills, or an endless stream of amusing chat.
One support crew. You need a crack team of friends and family to be your support crew. You can’t complete Trailtrekker without one – and not just because we won’t let you! Your support crew will supply you with food, extra water, minor medical supplies, seats, shade, and encouragement. You’ll need them to pack your tent at the start, ferry your waterproofs around in the middle, cheer you over the finishing line, and carry you home when you can’t walk any more. We can’t emphasise enough how important these people are.
What’s in it for you?
You mean apart from the massive sense of achievement, and profound feeling of making a difference in the world?
Well, we’ll look after you and your teammates on every step of your Trailtrekker journey with heaps of advice, support and facilities.
During the challenge we’ll look after you at checkpoints and water stops. We’ll keep you watered, fed, first-aided and motivated. We’ll even give you a fantastic Trailtrekker tee shirt to wear during the challenge.
And once you finished the sense of achievement stays with you.
There’s also a special Trailtrekker celebration evening, where we give out a great range of prizes and awards.
How do we raise £2,000?
Visit our webpage packed full of hints and tips from previous team leaders. All answering the question 'How do we raise £2,000?'
Trailtrekker likes…
If your experience of walking is from your office to the bus stop, or you have completed Trailtrekker in the past, these walking videos will have plenty you haven’t heard of yet. And if you need some new boots or gear in general check out these forums.
These promotional codes may save you a few quid as well (why not donate the savings to your fundraising?). Once you have all your kit, you might start thinking about using it and getting out on some training walks. Endomondo has just launched but there are plenty of alternatives. The Long Distance Walking Association (LDWA) also has a good forum.
Don’t forget to check out the coverage of Trailtrekker at the Yorkshire Post.
Related links
- Frequently asked questions
- Something flatter? Trailwalker charity challenge
- Something shorter? London Marathon 2010
- Support Trailtrekker and Oxfam, volunteer with us.
- For all general enquiries or to give us feedback, email us.
The Trailtrekker trail
The Trailtrekker charity challenge route takes in 100km of beautiful scenery across the Yorkshire Dales national park. Starting and finishing in Skipton you head out over Malham Cove and Pen-y-ghent before looping round past Buckden and Conistone on your return. If you’re after a charity challenge that takes in some of the most breathtaking landscapes in the UK then look no further!
See the map below for a guide to the 2010 Trailtrekker route. Clicking on the checkpoints and waterstops will bring up detailed information.
View Trailtrekker in a larger map
Trailtrekker 2009 in pictures
History of the event
Trailtrekker is only in its second year but its family history goes back over 25 years with Oxfam’s international 100km event - Trailwalker.
Please click here to read more about the Trailwalker history.
Related links
- Frequently asked questions
- Something flatter? Trailwalker charity challenge
- Something shorter? London Marathon 2010
- Support Trailtrekker and Oxfam, volunteer with us.
- For all general enquiries or to give us feedback, email us.
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Volunteer with us
"Looking forward to next year already, and still haven’t stopped smiling.”
Ken Syrett, Trailtrekker 2009 Volunteer.
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