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 Great Gorillas
based: London, UK
website: www.greatgorillas.org
The Great Gorilla Adventure is a amazing wildlife safari in Uganda and Rwanda. This charity holiday includes a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to track wild mountain gorillas, helping The Gorilla Organization save the animals that you visit.
| charity expeditions/holidays | Worldwide |

 John Muir Trust
based: Hampshire, UK
website: www.jmt.org
The 'Activities Programme' offers adventurous activities and exploration in beautiful wild areas, canoeing and sea kayaking trips, conservation work, story telling, music, wilderness skills, medicinal plants. Also see their 'Conservation Work Parties' where you can volunteer to help carry out conservation work. The John Muir Trust is a registered Scottish charity with the aim of protecting and conserving wild places and increasing awareness and understanding of such places.
| charity expeditions/holidays | working/volunteer holidays | gap year | ethical/eco tourism | survival courses | canoeing/kayaking | sea canoeing/sea kayaking | herbalism | storytelling | UK |

 Jubilee Sailing Trust
based: Hampshire, UK
website: www.jst.org.uk
Adventure sailing holidays for able-bodied and disabled people. The JST is a UK based charity that aims to promote the integration of able bodied and disabled people through adventure sailing holidays. The JST welcomes people from all over the world onto its two specially designed tall ships, the Lord Nelson and Tenacious.
| for people with a disability | sailing (large boat /sail ship) | charity expeditions/holidays | working /volunteer holidays | UK | Ireland | USA | Europe | Canaries | Worldwide |

 Marie Curie Cancer Care
based: London, UK
website: www.mariecurie.org.uk/events/rise_to_the_challenge/
Marie Curie Cancer Care invites you to 'Rise to the challenge' and take part in one of their charity challenge events to raise money for cancer care. Expeditions and events: running, swimming , walking and trekking, overseas challenges, UK mountain challenges, hospice treks and tennis.
| charity expeditions/holidays | Worldwide |

 Mencap
based: London, UK
website: www.mencap.org.uk
Mencap supports people with a learning disability and their families and carers. Take part in one of their Challenge Adventures – you will have the chance to join cycling or treking trips to places as diverse as Amsterdam and Japan, in return for fundraising. Also runners trips to worldwide marathon and half-marathon events, including London and New York.

| charity expeditions/holidays | cycle touring | walk/trek/hike | running/athletics | Worldwide |

 Pattaya Orphanage Trust
based: London, UK
website: www.pattayaorphanage.co.uk
The Pattaya Orphanage in Pattaya, Thailand, provides a loving home, residential care and education for 180 orphans, up to 100 street children, 220 deaf or blind children and 200 disabled young people. Opportunities for gap year / working holidays teaching English and jungle trekking charity expeditions.

| charity expeditions/holidays | gap year | working/volunteer holidays | Thailand |

Raleigh
based: London, UK
website: raleighinternational.org
Raleigh is a charity with over 24 years experience of providing adventurous and challenging expeditions that develop skills and confidence in young people. Explore Borneo, Costa Rica, Nicaragua and India for 4 to 10 weeks where you can volunteer on sustainable community and environmental projects, plus enjoy an adventure challenge.
| gap year | expeditions | charity expeditions/holidays | multi-activity | expedition training | groups | working/volunteer holidays | walking/trekking/hiking | youth/teen | team building/management courses | tailor made | Worldwide |

 Responsibletravel.com Featured Site
based: East Sussex, UK
website: Responsibletravel.com
Ethical, responsible charity challenge holidays, either run by charities or contributing a significant proportion of the holiday cost to a cause. Challenge holidays include, trekking, mountain climbs, ultra racing, bike rides and community projects. Raise money for your favourite charity, or for well and lesser known charities, as detailed on each trip.
| charity expeditions/holidays | UK | Europe | Asia | North America | South America | Africa |

Seren Ventures
based: Conwy, Wales, UK
website: www.serenventures.com
Seren Ventures offers climbing, scrambling, navigation, winter skills and mountain walking courses, together with adventure activities and guided mountain walks, throughout the year. Their courses, breaks and activities are based in Snowdonia, North Wales but they also run activities in the Lake District and Scotland.
| walking/trekking/hiking | navigation/orienteering | climbing/scrambling | winter skills | abseiling | canyoning/gorge walking | team building/management courses | charity expeditions/holidays | Wales | UK |

 SportsAid – The Charity For Sport
based: London, UK
website: www.sportsaid.org.uk
Charity cycling expeditions in aid of SportsAid – where the aim is to further educate young people through the medium of sport, and to encourage those with social or physical disadvantages to improve their lives through sport.

| charity expeditions/holidays | cycle touring | USA |

 Starfish Ventures
based: Essex, UK
website: www.starfishventures.co.uk
Starfish Ventures specialises in volunteer placements in Thailand. They have a wide cross section of projects, from teaching English through to helping conserve Thailand's turtle population. Whatever you choose these are real grass roots projects that improve people's lives and/or help Thailand sustain its environment.
| charity expeditions/holidays | ethical/ecotourism | gap year | working/volunteer holidays | Thailand |

 Tailor Made Trekking
based: Suffolk, UK
website: www.tailormadetrekking.co.uk
Tailor made walking holidays and trekking expeditions for small groups. Organising guided or unguided trekking trips to your specifications, in destinations such as Andalucía, Dominica, France, Italy, the Lake District, the Peak District, Peru, Morocco, Nepal, Scotland, Sicily, Switzerland, Tanzania, Wales and on the Great Wall of China.
| tailor made | walking/trekking/hiking | unguided walking | mountain guides | mountaineering | expeditions | charity holidays | seniors/silver surfers | Western Europe | Africa | UK | Asia |

 VentureCo Worldwide Limited
based: Warwickshire, UK
website: www.ventureco-worldwide.com
VentureCo's multi-phase travel programmes incorporate development projects, expeditions and adventure travel in Asia, Africa, South America and Central America. If you're taking a gap year, considering a career break, running a school expedition, organising a charity trek or just fancy a working holiday with a difference VentureCo can help you.
| working/volunteer holidays | gap year | school tours | charity expeditions/holidays | overlanding | backpacking | walking/trekking/hiking | walking/trekking safaris | white water rafting | South America | Africa | Asia |

 Will4Adventure
based: South Yorkshire, UK
website: www.will4adventure.com
Ideal for the novice or the budding mountaineer, Will4Adventure offer weekend courses in scrambling, rock climbing, mountaineering and navigation plus a top selection of UK and overseas adventure holidays, from treks in Nepal and Morocco to climbing in Peru.
| climbing/scrambling | mountaineering | winter skills | walking/trekking/hiking | navigation/orienteering | winter walking | via ferrata | charity expeditions/holidays | mountain guides | UK | Nepal | Peru |

Bear Mountaineering
based: British Columbia, Canada
website: www.bearmountaineering.ca
Wilderness adventures in northern British Columbia with experienced mountain guide.
| mountaineering | ice climbing | ski mountaineering/touring | expeditions | mountain guides | Canada |

 Blue Ventures Conservation
based: London, UK
website: www.blueventures.org
Dynamic marine volunteering positions available in Madagascar, researching threatened coral reefs ecosystems.
| working/volunteer holidays | charity expeditions/holidays | gap year | diving/snorkelling | Madagascar |

Fighting Blindness
based: Dublin, Ireland
website: www.fightingblindness.ie
Worldwide challenges to raise funds for research into cures and treatments for blindness, including jungle adventures, Everest Base Camp treks and cycling challenges.
| charity expeditions/holidays | Ireland | Worldwide |

 Leading Edge Expeditions
based: Dorset, UK
website: www.leadingedge.org.uk
Leading Edge Expeditions offer adventures for young people aged 16-25 years.
| charity expeditions/holidays | gap year | expeditions | expedition training | mountain leaders courses | Worldwide |

 Volunteer 4 Africa
based: Dorset, UK
website: www.volunteer4africa.org
Providing information on adventure travel and volunteer work opportunities in Africa.
| working/volunteer holidays | gap year | charity expeditions/holidays | animals/safari | Africa | England |

 VSO
based: London, UK
website: www.vso.org.uk/news/treks_landing.asp
Trek with VSO to India, Everest or Kilimanjaro or cycle across Kenya.
| cycle touring | charity expeditions/holidays | walking/trekking/hiking | Africa | Asia |

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