Our Partner

The total estimated amount of this support is £30,000 per year. Three of the trustees in the UK work for Adventure Alternative and provide their time for the charity freely.

As a registered tour operator Adventure Alternative is our provider for the ground handling of any fundraising trips or volunteers or school groups. AA organises the transport, staffing and various other activities outside the remit of the charity as well as offering the necessary financial protection for any money that donors or volunteers pay in the UK to the company.

Also Adventure Alternative generates tourism revenue in areas where Moving Mountains works and therefore operates much like a social enterprise. It promotes jobs and business. For example in Nepal the villages we work have become popular places for tourists to visit. This joint approach of capital investment from the charity plus employment and revenue from the company has been very successful over many years and has led to complete regeneration in some places.

A main tenet of Moving Mountains is our belief in the power of investment in social capital and social enterprise to provide long-term incomes and self-esteem. Adventure Alternative is the perfect partner to the charity and the two organisations have worked together from the beginning. The model has won awards and plaudits for its straightforward approach to business and development.

It is however important to say that none of the trustees of Moving Mountains benefit financially from the link with Adventure Alternative, even though three of the trustees are employed by the travel company. The company has been set up in part to act as beneficial partner to Moving Mountains and we can confirm that there is no conflict of interest in the relationship.

Any organisation that provides transport, accommodation, flights or activities must comply with the rules that are there to protect the consumer. That includes having liability insurance and insolvency bonding. Therefore Moving Mountains contracts Adventure Alternative to provide these ground services and ensures that any money given to the charity for those services is protected under the package travel regulations.