Lake District Challenge
Sign up to take on the Lake District Challenge with ActionAid! Take on this trek with 2,000 others.
Walk, jog or run this stunning course enjoying some of England's finest scenery.
Make your way from Kendal, and take in the sights as you trek your way along high passes and past the magnificent Lake Windermere, through the nature reserve and over 2,500m of the climb before returning to Kendal.
Whatever distance you choose it will be fun, highly rewarding and absolutely achievable with your resolve and determination!
Don't forget to secure your place. Visit the Lake District Challenge website to grab your place and select ActionAid as your chosen charity when registering.
This is a charity doing incredible work across the world to combat poverty, respond to emergencies and further education and human rights. You only need to glance at the news to realise how vital charities like ActionAid are.
Mirium, a senior nursing officer in Blantyre, Malawi, is using her leadership to strengthen public health services and advocate for young women nurses’ rights.
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How your sponsorship helps
Mirium is a senior nursing officer in Blantyre, Malawi, and a member of the Nurses Association of Malawi (NAM), an ActionAid partner. She works on the frontline in a cholera unit, where overstretched health centres, staff shortages and lack of equipment make responding to outbreaks increasingly difficult.
ActionAid Malawi works with NAM to amplify the voices of nurses and health workers campaigning against public sector wage freezes and chronic underfunding, policies driven by IMF advice that have left thousands of trained nurses unemployed.
Through ActionAid’s Young Urban Women (YUW) programme, Mirium is part of a growing movement of young women challenging these systems. YUW creates space for nurses to build confidence, develop leadership skills and advocate for decent work, strong public services and women’s rights.
I am a young woman, and I am a manager. I lead men,” Mirium says proudly.
Sponsorship of ActionAid events helps fund programmes like Young Urban Women, enabling leaders like Mirium to build skills, raise their voices and campaign for stronger public services and women’s rights.
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Page updated 4 February 2026