Overseas Treks

Thanks for your advice - I have spoken to people who are saying the same seperately so have taken your thoughts onboard and just use an agency- if we are lucky to get people then that is money in the bank for us.

I'm with Gerry on this.

treks are resource heavy in terms of costs and staff so if you're a small charity you're probably best using one of the agencies to manage all this rather than try to resource it yourselves.

I also agree that if treks aren't yet a dead dog they're on their way out. It will be more and more questionable for people to ask for sponsorship to fly half way round the world to tramp up Kilmanjaro, through a rain forest or up to Macchu Picu. I fear you may be getting into a fundraising idea as it's tailing off - but if you're set on it -all the best!

John

I'll be interested to see others' replies to this. My own opinion would be that, if you are a small charity, you would do better to leave big treks etc to the people who are already in there. I'd be looking to come up with some kind of event, appropriate to my charity, that is different to what everyone else is doing.

I'd also be a bit concerned that Trek fundraising is being increasingly scrutinised by environmentalists, and the ecological impact of several current offerings may be questionable.

Cheers

Gerry