Sponsored events with Team Amnesty

Take part in a sponsored event to raise money for human rights work with Team Amnesty.

The benefits of joining Team Amnesty:

  • A Team Amnesty running vest or t-shirt
  • A fundraising pack full of ideas and helpful tips
  • A dedicated fundraising team for support and advice
  • Your chance to help Amnesty protect people wherever justice, fairness, freedom and truth are denied.

Together we are powerful!

Get involved in a marathon, a parachute jump or any sponsored event and stand up as an individual for other individuals at risk around the world.

Get involved with Team Amnesty

Click on the pictures below to find out about different events

Run

Jump

Cycle

Trek

Triathlon

Your own

A Team Amnesty runner at the London Marathon 2009

Wendy Collyer taking a sponsored parachute jump in support of Amnesty

London to Paris cycle

Trek as part of Team Amnesty

Columbia University Men Swimming and Diving Team competes in the Butterfly event, courtesy of Angela Radulescu

A Team Amnesty member organises their own event 

Virgin Active London Triathlon - 27/28 July 2013

Registration fee: £30
Sponsorship target: £600

Roxanne runs her leg of the 2012 London Triathlon for AmnestyFind out more and register for your place

The London Triathlon attracts over 13,000 people each year to swim, bike and run in the world's largest triathlon.

Beginners and professional triathletes come from all over the world to compete in distances to suit all abilities at this spectacular event at London's Royal Victoria Dock.

For those wanting to share the load, there are relay race options so you can sign up with some mates or colleagues. More about the 2013 London Triathlon

Your own Team Amnesty

Setting yourself a challenge is a great way to raise funds for Amnesty. We're constantly impressed by the creativity and dedication of people who choose to do their own thing.

If you want to get fit, try something sporty like a running event. The Leeds Amnesty members reach the end of their Lands End to John O'Groats cycle ride standard distances are: 5k (approx. 30 mins), 10k (1 hour), half marathon (2 hours) and marathon (4 hours). If you don't fancy any of the runs we promote, search more running events.

Alternatively, why not complete a cycle ride such as Land's End to John o' Groats, as members of the Amnesty Leeds Group did; or a long distance walk such as the Offa's Dyke Path?

You could also get sponsored to achieve a personal goal such as quitting smoking or losing weight, or for a quirky challenge such as trying to get famous. You could even relate your challenge to an Amnesty International campaign; for instance, by doing a sponsored cage sit. Just use your imagination!

 Once you have decided on, and registered for, your chosen sponsored event:

  • Let us know and we will send you a fundraising pack full of tips and advice
  • If you are doing something sporty, we encourage you to follow a training plan
  • Consider the health and safety implications. Everything you choose to do is at your own risk and Amnesty cannot be held liable. Find out more
  • Set up a Justgiving page to collect sponsorship online

How to get sponsorship

Amnesty International UK has teamed up with justgiving.com so that all our runners and events participants can raise money quickly and easily online with their own personalised webpage.

Friends and family will be able to donate online with a credit or debit card - so no more running around with paper sponsorship forms or chasing cheques and cash after your event.

Jump Team Amnesty

Wendy Collyer (bottom)
Fancy taking the plunge to help human rights around the world?
 
How about making an exhilarating 10,000 feet freefall parachute jump? You need no experience and if you raise the minimum amount of sponsorship (between £395 - £535 depending on the type of jump you choose) you get to jump for free.
 

There are three types of jump available - whether you want to jump from 10,000 feet harnessed to a professional instructor, or would prefer a 2,000 or 3,000 feet solo jump. You can go from 28 locations around Britain most weekends - but book in advance.

The jump is open to anyone over the age of 16, but if you are aged between 16 and 18 you must obtain parental consent to take part.

Wendy Collyer (pictured) took the plunge and raised £1,000 for Amnesty.

Watch the video below of an Amnesty fundraiser doing a skydive.