Browsing entries tagged with Charity
28 Nov 2021
A Picture Organics onesie ski suit, four tickets to Snowboxx festival, a welcome hamper for a chalet in Morzine, a two-day lift pass at Glencoe and 60-minute personalised mix by former resident Dicks Tea…
26 Nov 2019
Have you got any old down jackets hanging around not being used? Mountain sports retailer Ellis Brigham is again collecting winter clothing in London, Manchester and Glasgow to donate to homeless charities.…
12 Nov 2019
A charity ski event will be taking place across the 3 Valleys and Paradiski next January, in memory of talented skier and tennis player Sadie Bristow, who died in August 2018, aged only nine years old.…
5 Nov 2018
Disability Snowsport UK (DSUK) will be opening a new adaptive snowsport school at
15 May 2017
Entries have opened for a cycle event in Hampshire held in memory of Nelson Pratt, a pro snowboarder and keen cyclist who died in 2012. Nelson’s Tour de Test Valley is a charity cycling sportive…
17 Nov 2016
Fancy winning a long weekend skiing in the French Alps for you and eight friends and helping raise money Children In Need at the same time? Ski Weekends has teamed up with Children In Need to offer a four-night…
9 Feb 2016
Art-loving skiers can bid for a piece of history this week — a one-off ski helmet painted by one of 15 different artists. The helmets, commissioned by clothing brand Trespass, feature everything from…
16 Jan 2015
A challenge to rack up a collective 238,855 miles on skis — the distance from the earth to the moon — has been launched by youth charity Snow-Camp. A special app, developed by the makers of Ski Tracks,…
20 Mar 2014
With “no make-up selfies” for Cancer Research taking social media by storm in the UK, next week a skiing challenge takes place in La Tania for the charity Ski 4 Cancer. Run for the first time in 2013,…
27 Feb 2014
A 19-year-old from South Lanarkshire has become the first young Scottish person to qualify as a ski instructor through the charity Snow-Camp Glasgow. Michael Conner from Blantyre says his life has “changed…
13 Nov 2013
Confident on a red run and fit enough to ski all day, every day in all conditions? Fancy skiing the vertical equivalent of Mount Everest three days in a row to raise money for charity? The Monster Ski…
4 Feb 2013
Skiers are being challenged to ski the vertical equivalent of Mont Blanc or Everest in March to raise money for a new cancer charity. The Ski 4 Cancer challenge, for individuals or teams of skiers, will…
14 Dec 2012
A new charity that aims to take a group of wounded ex-soldiers for a week of adaptive skiing in Klosters every year has been inundated with volunteers since its launch on 13 November. Skiing With Heroes…
29 Oct 2012
A Christmas ski holiday in Serre Chevalier is being auctioned in aid of charity. Chez Serre Chevalier is offering a week’s self-catered stay (from 22 to 26 December) for up to eight people in the chalet…
2 Apr 2012
The first Ski the World endurance challenge has taken place in Courmayeur, Italy, organised by Ski Solutions and the charity Make-a-Wish Foundation. The challenge was to ski the combined vertical height…
10 Aug 2010
The Monster Ski Challenge is back in 2011 – and they are looking for adventurous skiers and boarders to help raise money for the Multiple Sclerosis Trust by taking part in the event. Monster Ski…
19 Apr 2010
Reckon you could ski down the equivalent of Mont Blanc, on a Scottish mountain? Skiers and boarders are being invited to do just that at Glencoe Ski Centre on Saturday 25 April – and raise money for…
10 Nov 2009
Who’s up for a quick blast to the Alps next April? If the idea of putting your car through its paces around Brands Hatch, followed by a rally to the French Alps and two action-packed days on the piste…
28 Aug 2009
How do you fancy skiing or boarding 57,000 vertical feet (18,000m) in two days - yes, about double the height of Mount Everest? But in the Austrian Alps, not the Himalayas ... Snow Camp’s Everest…
17 Jul 2009
Fancy skiing Whistler-Blackcomb? And raise money for a worthy cause at the same time? The National multiple sclerosis charity the MS Trust is looking for skiers and snowboarders to sign up for…
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