Join us on the Great African Journey!

An exciting event for schools and youth groups combining sport, education and fundraising.

What is the Great African Journey?

This year your class or youth group could join forces with others from around the country as they take part in sponsored events with the aim of traveling the equivalent of the 7,868 km journey from Tunisia to South Africa - without even leaving the UK!

The beauty of The Great African Journey is that you can tailor the event to suit the age of the participants.

You decide on how you want to tackle your challenge — running, cycling, swimming, or even by pogo stick. For this challenge, anything goes!

So will it be 10 lengths of the swimming pool, 100 bounces on the trampoline or a 5km 3-legged, fancy dress race? You decide!

Make it even more exciting by choosing a distance the same length as something famous from the journey – it could be the width of the Nile or the height of Victoria Falls. We can provide you with lots of helpful suggestions of distances and tell you more about the landmarks.

Help children in Africa get the education they deserve.

Each participant then raises sponsorship to take part, whether per skip, per lap or per mile. If your aim is to skip up the Great Pyramids in Egypt (around 146 metres), that's around 292 skips! Sponsorship of 1p per skip is £2.92 for skipping an entire pyramid.

And your school/group can keep 20% of sponsorship raised for their own fundraising

Be part of something BIG!

Add your distance to our interactive map and see how you and other groups across the UK are helping us to complete the Great African Journey!