Location: Belfast
Responsible to: Community Events Manager
Allowance: Local transport costs and lunch
Starting date of internship: January 2012 – September 2012
Hours of work: 10-5pm, 3 days per week
Closing date: 15th February 2012

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Oxfam Ireland TRAILTREKKER 2011 100km Winners, team "Dromintee 4". Photo credit: Robert Doherty from Uberdog

The third annual Oxfam Ireland TRAILTREKKER event attracted more than 400 participants to set off from Donard Park in Newcastle early on Saturday 10^th September at the start of one of the most gruelling charity endurance challenges. Each team had a single goal – to complete the epic 100km or alternative 50km route and reach the finishing line at Carlingford Sailing Club inside 36 or 20 hours.

Battling the weather to walk by day and by night through the Mournes, the Ring of Gullion and the Cooley Peninsula, a team called the Dromintee 4 were the 100km winners in a record time of 15 hours and 39 minutes. Consisting of local men Ciaran McMullan, Jude Hayes, Dermot Winters and Kevin Murray, the Dromintee 4 completed the trek to arrive in Carlingford just shy of Saturday midnight after setting out from Newcastle at 8.00am that morning.

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Don’t want to walk 100km but interested in helping out at the event?

Could you spare four hours or more over the weekend of 10-11th September to help make Oxfam Ireland’s largest fundraising event a success? TRAILTREKKER 2011 is fast approaching and we need hundreds of volunteers to help out over event weekend.

There are lots of opportunities for groups and individuals to get involved, for more information download our Trailtrekker flyer

If you are interested email sarah.wilson@oxfamireland.org or call 02890 895978 to register your interest.

During the launch of TRAILTREKKER 2011 earlier this week, we asked RTE’s Dr. Mark Hamilton and TG4 presenter Sinéad Ní Loideáin to tell us why we should all dust off our hiking boots and start training for TRAILTREKKER 2011.

RTE’s Mark Hamilton:

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RTE’s daily show reporter, Róisín Ní Thomáin, RTE’s Dr. Mark Hamilton and TG4 presenter, Sinéad Ní Loideáin at the launch of Oxfam Ireland’s TRAILTREKKER

Oxfam Ireland today launched TRAILTREKKER 2011, one of the world’s most ambitious team challenges involving a non-stop 100km or 50km trek through the Mourne Mountains to Carlingford. This walk is tough but whether you choose the 100km or the 50km trek the experience will be exhilarating. A unique feature of this year’s TRAILTREKKER is the introduction of the 50km trek. Choose your challenge and help change lives in developing countries.

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Early Bird Registration Fee for Oxfam Ireland TRAILTREKKER 2011 will expire this Friday, 25 February.

Don’t miss out on your 50% discount – sign up your team for €/£100.

Visit www.oxfamireland.org/trailtrekker to register your team or chat to a member of the team on (01) 635 0406 or (028) 9089 5974.

Grace O’Neill, Community Events Manager for Oxfam Ireland was profiled in yesterday’s Sunday Business Post.

I joined Oxfam in September 2008, when the Community Events Team was first established.

In 1998 Oxfam Ireland became an independent member of Oxfam International, a confederation of 14 affiliated members.

Oxfam Ireland has approximately 50 staff working in offices in Belfast and Dublin and 85 retail staff in our 49 shops all around Ireland, including four Fair Trade shops in Dublin, Cork, Belfast and Galway. We also have a field office in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania with ten staff. We have a network of over 1,000 volunteers who help run our shops and support our office staff.

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Trailtrekkers and potential Trailtrekkers! Our new site for the 2011 event is now ready to view – see www.oxfamireland.org/trailtrekker.

We’ve added a 50km option alongside the 100km route. Both events will be held on Sept. 10 & 11, involve teams of four, begin in Donard Park, Newcastle and end in Carlingford, Co. Louth.

Take advantage of a reduced team registration fee of €/£100 until Friday 25 February!