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:
UPCOMING
SEPTEMBER 2025 FUNDRAISING:
MOUNT SNOWDON
To crowdfund Elgon’s ongoing projects, a group of awesome fundraisers will be tackling the tallest mountain in Wales, Mount Snowdon (Yr Wyddfa). Kicking off at 8am on Saturday 26h September.
80 KILOMETRES FOR ELGON
- Want to push your fundraising throughout the month of September, or if mountains aren’t really your thing then take on our 80k for Elgon challenge. Walk, run, swim or cycle 80kilometres throughout the month of September.
If you want to help us reach our £10k fundraising target, pack your walking boots and join this years fundraising… we’d love to have you. Visit our 2025 fundraising page to sign up and find out more information.
2026 UGANDA VISIT
What will be our biggest planned trip to date, a small group of Elgon Empowerment volunteers will work with our local partners to reach more people than ever. If all goes to plan we’ll be supporting the inspiring work of an additional community. In early talks we hope to provide communities with sewing machines and training so they can 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.
PREVIOUS PROJECTS & EVENTS:
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, I stayed with a small community in Mutoto for around a month. In what was a culture shock beyond comprehension I remember struggling to understand how communities could live in such poverty. Children would pass away from preventable and treatable illnesses; food, water, shelter, education, electricity 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.”