Cambridge Oxfam Walk 2012

Getting to Chilford Hall

Chilford Hall is about 13 miles south of Cambridge. Stagecoach is providing a free bus service from central Cambridge via Cambridge rail station to the venue and back. Alternatively, ample free parking is available.

Bring the family

Children are welcome – we hope to have a story-teller and a face-painter at the finish to entertain children. The four-mile route covers some rough ground, but should be negotiable by large-wheeled buggies.

Team entries

Why not get together with your workmates or friends and walk as a team, or enter a team from your club or voluntary organisation? A team must consist of at least four adult walkers, with no upper limit.

Individual entries

Don’t forget that the individual collecting the most in sponsorship, paid in by 31 July 2012, will win a four-night walking holiday for two in the Lake District, kindly donated by Ramblers Countrywide Holidays (terms and conditions apply).

Our sponsors

Thank you to the following organisations who support the Cambridge Oxfam Walk:

Cotswold Outdoor, for donating the prize for the top fundraising team.

Marshall Motor Group, for providing vehicles.

Ramblers Countrywide Holidays, who have donated the prize for the individual raising the most sponsorship.

Stagecoach, who are providing a free bus service between Drummer Street, Cambridge, and Chilford Hall.

* Terms and conditions for winning the walking holiday

The walking holiday offered is 'Hassness – The Best of the Lake District', code: 70004 (5 day holiday). The holiday can be taken at any time subject to availability and is for two persons sharing a twin room. Travel to and from Hassness House is not included. Insurance is not included.

Where your money goes

By taking part in the 2012 Oxfam Walk you'll help people all over the world – from Chad to Pakistan, the Middle East to Sri Lanka.

Your sponsorship money will support Oxfam's Emergencies Fund, a life saving tool in helping people recover from natural disaster and conflict. Oxfam works in more than 30 countries to provide clean water and sanitation, health and hygiene care and security for some of the 30 million people affected by conflict or natural disaster every year. Funding such work is essential to reduce death and disease, and to help communities recover from floods, famine, persecution and conflict.

Oxfam makes a real difference to people's lives worldwide but we can't do it without you. £50 pledged by you could pay for a hygienic toilet, vital for preventing the spread of disease in an emergency.

Fundraising made easy

Walkers are asked to raise at least £50 in sponsorship - if every walker achieves this we'll raise over £30,000!

Here are three tips to get you started without breaking a sweat:

• Set up an online fundraising page
  Quick and easy to use. Just enter your details, how much you hope to raise, and send the link to your family and friends and add it to the bottom of all your emails. You can even add a photo to brighten up your page.

• Sponsorship form
  If you prefer the old fashioned method you can download our sponsorship forms to pass to your friends and family.
• Matched Giving
  Ask the company you work for if they have a matched giving scheme. If they do, ask if they'd be prepared to match the money you raise pound for pound and you could double your sponsorship! If they don’t, ask them if they’d be interested in setting one up.

More great fundraising tips

Over 40 years of the Cambridge Oxfam Walk

On Saturday 22 April 1967, 900 walkers set off on a 27-mile, A130–A11 marathon to Bishop’s Stortford to raise money for Oxfam. A year later they repeated the exercise and in 1969 undertook a hike to Bedford – 30 miles along roads with traffic hurtling by!

Since then, the Oxfam Walks around Cambridge have become an annual institution, now less arduous than in those early days, with more choice of routes and mainly along footpaths rather than roads, but each year raising money and making a significant contribution to Oxfam.