SGB Outdoor News

Buff raises funds for UNICEF

The High UV Protection Buff created to support Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman’s 2007 Long Way Down motorcycle ride from John O’Groat’s in Scotland to Cape Town continues to raise valuable funds for UNICEF. Buffera’s most recent donation covering the period from 21st April to the 31st December 2009 amounts to £2,482.66. A spokesperson for Buffera said “We’re really pleased that this design continues to appeal to consumers, especially with the recent events in Haiti. We know UNICEF

have been involved in the relief efforts there and we hope this contribution will help in some way. We’ll continue to sell Long Way Down Buff so long as there’s a demand and continue to pass the profits from its sale to UNICEF.”

GoLite creates

product take-back program

GoLite’s innovative Product Take-Back Program is, they say, a first of its kind in the outdoor industry. GoLite will take back and reuse, repurpose, recycle, and/or store for future recycling any GoLite apparel or equipment, regardless of its condition, that the company manufactured since its founding in 1998, excepting footwear which is made by a different company.

The intent of the program is to enable consumers to avoid ever sending their used or unwanted GoLite products to landfill. By visiting www.golite.com, customers can learn more about how to repair or repurpose their product locally, and if they decide to send it back to GoLite, the company will repair, donate, repurpose, recycle, and/or store for future recycling everything they get back, lock, stock and zipper pull. GoLite also recently released a sustainability report, a 156-page document which is apparently a comprehensive account of the company’s environmental and social practices and footprint. You can view the report at www.golite.com/meaning-of- lite/transparency.aspx

Cram unveils Kielder marathon plan

Former Olympic athlete Steve Cram has unveiled plans for a new international sports event – the Kielder Marathon. Scheduled to take place on October 17, the marathon will follow an almost entirely off-road course around northern Europe’s largest man-made lake, Kielder Water, in Northumberland, North East

England. Cram, who came up with the idea for the event, has called it ‘Britain’s most beautiful marathon’.

The marathon will follow the newly completed Lakeside Way, a trail that stretches right around the shoreline of Kielder Water. For the inaugural event, Cram and his

team of organisers are limiting the number of entrants to around 1,000. Runners who are interested in registering an interest for a place on the Kielder Marathon should visit www.kieldermarathon.com.

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Vango supports Help

For Heroes expedition

Vanog has been named principal kit sponsor of a fundraising expedition to Mount Kilimanjaro in aid of Help for Heroes.

Vango has kitted out former member of the British Armed Forces, Neil Chamberlain, in preparation for his 5,895-metre climb up Africa’s highest mountain. The brand has donated top of the range equipment from its 2010 collection including the Pumori 60+10l mountain rucsac, Deluxe Cork Walking Poles and the award winning Supernova 5000 sleeping bag. Neil hopes to raise around £15,000 for Help for Heroes. In addition to climbing Mount Kilimanjaro he has organised several fundraising dinners around Liverpool.

For more information on Vango and Neil visit www.vango.co.uk and www.justgiving.com/Grolsch1985

Outdoor industry conservation charity

joins IUCN

Following a lengthy and detailed application process, the EOG Association for Conservation has been admitted into membership of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

Founded in 1948, the IUCN brings together States, government agencies and a diverse range of non-governmental organisations in a unique world partnership which seeks to safeguard natural resources at local, regional and global levels.

Keswick promises

five days of fun

The 2010 Keswick Mountain Festival will see the very best selection of outdoor activities, sporting competitions and great speakers available in the UK this summer.

The festival will bring together inspirational figures from the outdoor world such as Sir Ranulph Fiennes and BASE Jumper, climber and local lad Leo Houlding in the Theatre By the Lake. Throughout the week the venue will play host to mountain heroes galore including Andy Cave, Andy Kirkpatrick, Joss Naylor, Kenny Stuart, Dave Birkett and Doug Scott CBE. On the shore of Derwentwater, beneath the classic summits of Skiddaw and Catbells, will be the Adventure Base complete with new themed areas BIKE, CLIMB, HIKE, KIDS, PADDLE AND TRIATHLON.

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