For businesses in Lancashire and Cumbria
Sponsorship
Nick Samworth walks 325 miles over 214 summits in 10 days, out of Keswick and back, to raise money for Rossendale and Pendle Mountain Rescue Team. If your business wants its name on that, this page is for you.
There are no printed packages and no price list. What a business gives, and what it gets back, is worked out in one conversation.
Where the money and the kit go
What Your Sponsorship Does
Sponsorship pays for two separate things. Getting one man round 214 fells in one piece, and the kit and training the rescue team relies on the rest of the year.
Kit and footwear
Ten days of wet rock, bog and scree destroys boots. Footwear, socks, waterproofs and spares that hold up on day nine, not just day one.
Nutrition and hydration
Roughly 33 miles a day burns far more than one person can carry. Food, drink and electrolytes handed over at road crossings, day and night.
Safety and tracking
A tracker so the support team knows where he is, plus lights, communications and what he carries for himself. Alone on a fell in the dark only works if somebody can find you.
Training and life-saving kit
Money raised goes to the team. Stretchers, casualty bags, radios, ropes and the training hours behind every one of them.
Maximising funds for the team
Every cost a business covers is a cost that never comes out of public donations. Sponsorship in kind does the same job as cash and often lands sooner.
The case, in plain terms
Why Sponsor This
Charity asks land on your desk every week. This one is worth reading to the end for four reasons.
It has an ending. One man, 214 summits, 325 miles, 10 days, no rest day. He either walks back into Keswick or he does not. People follow that in a way they never follow a raffle.
The money goes to a real rescue team. Rossendale and Pendle Mountain Rescue Team is run by unpaid volunteers who are on call every day of the year and who buy their own kit through fundraising like this. Nick is one of them.
The ground is local at both ends. The team is based in Lancashire, in Rossendale and Pendle. The route runs through the Lake District, in Cumbria. Your staff and your customers already know both places.
It runs for months, not a weekend. Planning and training now, ten days from 19 August 2026, then the total counted and the thank yous after that. A sponsor is attached to all of it.
What a sponsor is actually buying
- Association. Your name next to something hard, specific and finished in public, in front of people who live where you trade.
- Money that lands with a mountain rescue team and gets spent on kit, training and callouts.
That is the whole offer. No mailing list, no customer data, no impression counts nobody can stand behind.
Cash, kit, hours or a bed for the night
Ways To Get Involved
Nothing here carries a price. These are the shapes support can take, and most businesses end up somewhere between two of them.
Headline campaign partner
Kit and equipment in kind
Back a single day of the ten
Staff fundraising or matched giving
Host a collection
A checkpoint or a bed
Modest, and honest about it
What Sponsors Can Expect
This is a fundraising campaign run by volunteers around full time jobs and callouts. Here is what can be offered without overstating it.
Name and logo
On the campaign where it makes sense, which usually means this site and printed material. Where and how big is agreed before anything goes to print.
Mentions in updates
Named in campaign updates and social posts through the build-up and across the ten days. The number of posts is not fixed, and nobody is going to pretend otherwise.
A thank you after
A public thank you once he is off the fells and the total is counted, naming the businesses that made the ten days possible.
All of it is agreed case by case. Every detail is settled with you before anything is printed or posted. If something is not possible, you will be told that instead of being promised it. There are no reach figures or audience numbers on this page because none of them could be backed up.
Four steps, no forms
How It Works
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Get in touch
One email to support@rpmrt.org.uk. Tell us what your business does and roughly what you have in mind. A single line is enough to start.
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Agree what fits
A short conversation, on the phone or in person. Cash, kit, staff time, a collection or a bed near the route. We work out what suits you and what actually helps.
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Confirm before the start
Everything needs to be settled before 19 August 2026, when he leaves Keswick. Print and kit have lead times, so earlier is better than closer.
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Then it runs
Ten days, 19 Aug to 28 Aug 2026. Updates while he is out there, then the total confirmed and the thank yous once he is home.
One email, straight to the team
Get In Touch
Send one email. Say what your business does and what you could put in, whether that is money, kit, staff time or a room. You will get a straight answer about what is possible.
support@rpmrt.org.ukThat address goes to Rossendale and Pendle MRT. They are volunteers with jobs and callouts, so it may not come back the same day, but it will be answered.
Before you decide
What he is taking on
The full breakdown of the 10 days.
Before you decide
The route on a map
Every mile measured from the GPX file.
Before you decide
Who the money is for
The team behind the whole thing.
Not a business? Giving as an individual takes about a minute on the donate page.
Every pound goes to the team
Your name on it. Their kit paid for.
Rossendale and Pendle Mountain Rescue Team is run entirely by unpaid volunteers and funded almost entirely by donations. Sponsoring Nick puts money straight into kit, training and callouts.