PROJECTS & EVENTS
Every other year we visit our friends in Uganda, supporting crucial empowerment efforts. In advance of this, we crowdfund!
SEE OUR PROJECTS AND EVENTS:
August 2026 UGANDA VISIT
What will be our biggest trip to date, a small group of Elgon Empowerment volunteers will work with our local partners across two communities to deliver our ‘sustainable supply’ programme.
This programme will see the provision of sewing machines and tutored training for women’s groups so they can learn to create their own reusable sanitary products. This will not only secure supplies of sanitary products in rural locations but spark small self sustaining business for local women, and empower them with new skills.
PREVIOUS PROJECTS & EVENTS:
SEPTEMBER 2025 FUNDRAISING:
MOUNT SNOWDON
To crowdfund Elgon’s ongoing projects, a group of awesome fundraisers tackled the tallest mountain in Wales, Mount Snowdon (Yr Wyddfa), raising thousands of pounds for women’s empowerment projects
80 KILOMETRES FOR ELGON
- Over the month of September volunteers took on our 80k for Elgon challenge. Walking, running, swimming and cycling 80kilometres in four short weeks, a distance equivalent to the circumference of Mount Elgon (the location of our first partner community).
2024 UGANDA VISIT
On our BIGGEST visit to date, a small group of Elgon Empowerment volunteers worked with our local partners to reach more people than ever, here’s a snapshot of our work:
Women's empowerment workshops for 500+ women and girls, teaching women's reproductive health
Our sanitary supply programme, offering 3500+ reusable sanitary products to those who need them
Men's workshops for 150 men & boys. Teaching men about female health and openly discussing mental health
Founding a standing men’s group and investing in them
MAY 2024 FUNDRAISING:
THE TALLEST MOUNTAIN IN ENGLAND
To crowdfund our 2024 empowerment projects, 14 brave fundraisers trudged through brutal conditions to summit Scafell Pike, the tallest mountain in England. The fundraising team, from different corners of the UK and walks of life came together in a phenomenal display of charity. Thanks to our fundraisers and the hundreds of people who supported them this group climb secured support for thousands in rural Uganda.
2022 UGANDA VISIT
In our largest project yet we: Facilitated the delivery of Women’s Empowerment workshops to over 200 women and girls in 2022. Distributed over 1000 reusable sanitary products to women and girls in Mutoto, Uganda. Provided essential school resources for the Golden Hill Academy - Mutoto, Uganda. Provided 1 terms worth of food, helping hundreds of children access at least 1 warm meal a day.
2022 FUNDRAISING
THREE PEAKS, 48 HOURS…
Four of the Elgon Empowerment fundraising team tackled the tallest mountains in England, Scotland and Wales in just over 48 hours. This was the first full fundraiser we’d conducted and it successfully funded projects that saw the delivery of considerable women’s empowerment resources during the 2022 Uganda visit.
2019, Where it all began…
Jake, our founder, visited Uganda for the first time in 2019.
“Welcomed with open arms, In 2019 I had the privilege to live amongst a small rural community on the lush hillsides of Mount Elgon, whilst supporting a local charity. It was a culture shock to say the least. I struggled to come to terms with how so many could live in such abject poverty, children would pass away from preventable illnesses and food, water, shelter, education, and more was simply not readily available. Hidden from the children who saw me as an exotic climbing frame, I’m not embarrassed to share that I would sneak away and shed a tear during those first days. Once it was time to leave, I promised myself I would be back. I knew I had the capacity to help, to use my privilege that’d kept me alien to the challenges of others, to do something good. And not by imposing solutions imported from the UK, but by lending my time and skills to support the inspiring work of community leaders already working to empower their communities.”