Craggan Outdoors News

invitation-to-charity-corporate-challenge-dayCraggan Outdoors has this year adopted ‘Water for Kids’ (http://waterforkids.org.uk/) as our corporate charity. Water for Kids is a small charity which provides safe water, sanitation and health education to children and communities in a number of developing countries.

Being fortunate to live in a country where we take the provision of safe water and sanitation for granted, at Craggan Outdoors we think it right to utilise the fact that we have a business that uses our abundance of water for leisure purposes, to highlight the developing world’s most basic need…the provision of safe water.

It is estimated that close to 1 billion of the world’s population - that’s 1 in 8 people - lack access to safe water. It is also estimated that each year around 3.6 million people - over half being children - die from water-related illness, 98% in the developing world. Lack of safe water claims more lives each year than war! Every 15 seconds a child dies from water-related disease.

Craggan Outdoors has already made a donation of £250 to start our link with WfK, & expect our year-end total from our donations of 50p from every water-based activity booking to take this figure to somewhere in the region of £700-£800.

On top of this though we want to give others the opportunity to support this critically important cause. For that reason Craggan Outdoors will host a corporate challenge day on Sunday 12th September, & YOU are invited to enter.

For an entry fee of £150 per team of six people - just £25 per person - you can bring a team of work colleagues, or just a group of friends or sports team-mates - it doesn’t have to be just corporate teams - for either a morning or afternoon of fantastic fun challenges on a range of our outdoor activities, whilst raising money for a great cause. The morning session will run from 10am to 1pm, & the afternoon session from 2pm to 5pm. A BBQ lunch will be provided for all participants between 1 & 2pm.

Interested?! Then don’t delay….get in contact with Keith Ballam at Craggan Outdoors on either 01479 873283 or info@cragganoutdoors.co.uk. We look forward to hearing from you.

Craggan Outdoors is pleased to announce a new link with a small charity called Water for Kids. The aim is to use the fact that we use water for leisure purposes, to raise awareness of the fact that more than 1 billion people lack access to safe water, & that an estimated 3.6 million people - more than half being children - die each year as a result.

But not just to raise awareness….also of course to raise money for this critical cause. Book any water-based activity such as gorge walking, kayaking, raft building, River Spey canoeing or white water rafting, & we donate to the charity. Click on the link at the bottom of any page on this site to find out more about what we are doing, & how you can help further.