Latest news and event updates

Congratulations Oxfam Trailwalker!

Oxfam Trailwalker has been awarded the Special Events Charity Fundraising Award (the fancy way of saying best fundraising event!) at the Fundraising Institute of NZ (FINZ) Fundraising Excellence Awards, held at parliament mid-May. FINZ is the professional body for all those involved with fundraising, sponsorship and events in the not-for-profit sector so it's awesome to be recognised with this accolade from our fundraising peers.

Oxfam Trailwalker has also won the most sustainable event award from NZ Association of Events Professionals (NZAEP) three years running. You can read more about this award and Oxfam Trailwalker's committment to sustainability.

Event alerts

Essential event info is emailed to all team members on a monthly basis. It is also posted here.

  • Event Alert 17 April - Upgrade! Win our premier prize by entering our fundraising upgrade competition.
  • Event Alert 10 April - Congratulations! The physical challenge may be over, but the fundraising challenge continues. Check out our tips, view th latest fundraising leaderboards and see how your money helps farmers in East Timor.
  • Event Alert 20 March  – Important! All the critical event info including registration requirements, safety and emergency procedures, sustainability tips, parking at the checkpoints and how the daylight saving time change will effect the event timings.
  • Event Alert 14 March  – Competition winners! Find out if you have won a free Maui, free team t-shirts or a dedicated portaloo. Plus some helpful fundraising tips and how your support helps turn a light on in East Timor.
  • Event Alert 15 February  – See how you can: choose your team start time (either 6am or 7am); enter the Icon team logo competition to win t-shirts for your team; and make the most of lessons learned at training weekends.
  • Event Alert 10 January – Why you want to be at training weekend and find out how to register. Plus, how to win a private portaloo for your team, what to do when you just got to go, and a great gear tip from Bivouac Outdoor.
  • Event Alert 13 December – Find out how to order Trade Aid chocolate for fundraising and how to score a great deal on the perfect pair of shoes at Shoe Clinic. Plus some great news about your preparation packs.
  • Event Alert 15 November – Details on FREE Christmas cards to sell to boost your fundraising, telling everyone how awesome you are on Facebook, getting geared up for the challenge and training weekend dates announced.
  • Event Alert 18 October – See why spending time on facebook is actually productive, where to find training schedules for your team, and read the first of our tips to harness your sustainability superpowers.
  • Event Alert 20 September – In the first event alert for Oxfam Trailwalker 2012 find out how to login and spruce up your team page, your number one fundraising resource.

Support crew event alerts

Support crew assigned to team pages get their very own Event Alerts too! You can also read them here.


Fundraising target

2012 Total: $741,954.22 (74%)

   

Target total: 1.0 million
Fundraising deadline: 20-Jun-12

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Congratulations

Huge congratulations to all teams who took on the challenge of walking 100km in 36 hours at Oxfam Trailwalker 2012. Whilst the physical challenge may be over the fundraising challenge continues toward raising $1 million before the fundraising deadline of June 20, 2012. With your help we can get there!

Oxfam Trailwalker raised $850,000 to fund our programme work