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NEWS: Mend Our Mountains Launches Biggest Fundraising Drive Yet

Today sees the start of a huge fundraising drive as the Mend Our Mountains: Make One Million campaign seeks to raise £150,000 through crowdfunding.

A campaign partnership between the British Mountaineering Council (BMC) and the UK's fifteen National Parks, Mend our Mountains is raising money to fund trail repairs on popular hills seriously affected by path erosion.


With support from celebrities like Sir Chris Bonington, Julia Bradbury and Steve Backshall, this is a follow-up to the BMC's original Mend Our Mountains campaign, which raised over £100,000 from public donations back in 2016.

Dave Turnbull, British Mountaineering Council CEO, said:

"Mend Our Mountains is the BMC's flagship initiative, our way of giving back to the mountains we love and use."

"More people out in the hills can only be a good thing – in fact, those regularly taking part in walking, climbing and mountaineering now outnumber those doing golf, tennis and rugby combined – but we do have a duty of care to these landscapes. That's why I'm extremely proud that we're supporting National Parks from Scotland to Sussex as they try to overcome the challenges they all face."

Having now set the target an ambitious ten times higher, the BMC and partners have been raising revenue through various means. Headline Sponsorship is provided by big outdoor retailers Cotswold Outdoor and Snow+Rock, and a number of outdoor organisations, businesses, charities and user groups have lined up to offer support. Around £375,000 of the £1,000,000 target has so far been achieved, but this latest crowdfunding drive is the largest single effort of the campaign, aiming to add another £150,000 to the total.