Your company

Oxfam Trailwalker is an original opportunity to bring together work colleagues for a good cause.

By recruiting teams, you will mobilise your company in a group dynamic that strengthens internal cohesion. And your employees will be proud to take part in a sporting challenge to support the actions of Oxfam, one of the biggest international development organizations.

Teambuilding

You will be able to:

  • communicate the dynamism and commitment of your employees
  • develop team spirit, motivation and sense of cohesion
  • affirm your willingness to support a cause together
  • D-day rewards months of work towards a huge human adventure shared together!

For more information: contact us: evenements@oxfamfrance.org.

Volunteers

Volunteers at the Oxfam Trailwalker event are very important. Without them none of this would be possible. Getting involved as a volunteer is a wonderful commitment that contributes massively to the results of Oxfam’s work.

Volunteer registration

 

REGISTER TO BECOME A VOLUNTEER!

Volunteer’s Guide

For a better preparation and to have more information, you can download the Volunteer’s Guide! It will help you to understand what will be your missions during the event and how everything is organized.

Feel free to contact us for any questions by sending an email to benevoles-event@oxfamfrance.org or by calling au 01 85 34 17 63

Support Crew

Behind every great team is an even greater support crew. Support crew members are the unsung heroes of the event. You will provide your team with unconditional love, dedicated support and endless motivation throughout their journey. They could not complete the Oxfam Trailwalker without you!

Each team of walkers must have a support crew: ideally at least two to three people for each team.

Supporter’s Guide

To help you prepare the Oxfam Trailwalker as a support crew member, you can download the following guide (in French):

Support crew registration

Registration for support crew is mandatory! Please complete the form below (in French):

Supporters registration for the Oxfam Trailwalker 2024 is coming soon.

Feel free to contact us if you need any help. We can translate all the information above.
Oxfam Trailwalker Team
evenements@oxfamfrance.org / +33 (0)1 56 98 24 46

Team

Dieppe – SOLD OUT

Oxfam Trailwalker 5th edition in Normandy, starting from Dieppe, will be held on June 29 and 30 of 2024. So many breathtaking landscapes to discover : seasides, chalk cliffs, fields and forests.

Details

For your information, your team’s registration has to be done directly online by clicking on the button above. Payment is by credit card and must be done only once per team. You will immediately receive an email to create your team’s fundraising page and begin the Oxfam Trailwalker adventure.

As noted in the Oxfam Trailwalker official rules, your team will have to raise a minimum of 1 500€ before the event to be able to participate. Each team member will also have to send us a medical certificate and to count on a support crew (at least one person). These elements are mandatory to start the walk.

A question ? Contact us.

News

Order your T-Shirt

À l’occasion des 10 ans du Trailwalker Avallon, Oxfam France lance une gamme collector de t-shirts techniques. Il est disponible au prix de 25 euros, en deux couleurs…

The Morvan

In the exceptional landscape of the Morvan, we have endeavoured to select the very best walking paths. For the 11th year of the Oxfam France Trailwalker, on May 16th & 17th 2020 we invite you to discover – or rediscover – the sublime forests, rivers and hills that the Morvan offers.

The Morvan

The morvan (Parc naturel régional du Morvan) is a low mountainous wooded area of 2,990 km2, spanning four French départements – la Côte d’Or, la Nièvre, la Saône et Loire et l’Yonne, and Bourgogne. The highest altitude is 900 metres in the south and 600 metres in the north.

In the Morvan, above all you’ll see the trees! The forest is everywhere, covering 45% of the total surface of the Park, including. harrdwoods (oak and beech) and softwoods (fir and spruce).

Water also has an important presence in the Morvan. The impermeable granite soil has created numerous waterfalls and swirling rivers (the Yvonne, Cure, and Cousin). The Park also has a multitude of lakes, ponds, streams and marshy areas, with more than 2,000km of watercourses in total.

The natural heritage of the Morvan is exceptional, with many remarkable animal and plant species, such as otters, mountain arnica and cranberries. Certain natural habitats such as the peat bogs and the ravine forests are very rare.

When discovering these ecosystems, it is essential to protect them. The Oxfam Trailwalker is dedicated to minimize the impact on the Park.

Partners

Thank you to all our partners who support our vision of a fairer world. If you wish to become a partner of Oxfam Trailwalker, contact us directly by email or phone 01 56 98 24 46.

MAJORS PARTNERS

1.LOGO_AVALLON

In the heart of Bourgogne, and perched on a rocky outcrop that dominates the Cousin Valley, the town of Avallon will seduce you with its charm and curiosities. A real entry point to the Morvan, the town has great pleasure welcoming the Oxfam Trailwalker.

Official partners

The Natural Regional Park of the Morvan manages multiple aspects such as tourism, biodiversity, the forest, renewable energy and cultural activities. It is therefore natural that the Park has worked with Oxfam France to welcome the Trailwalker since the event began.
Known across the world for its vineyards and their wines,Bourgogne has numerous attractions. Gastronomy, architecture, tourism and sporting activities here are both authentic and modern. The Regional Council of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté has been a supporter of Oxfam Trailwalker since its first edition.

Sport and territory are two important pillars for Yonne’s Conseil Déparmental, which corresponds well to Oxfam Trailwalker.

Quarré-les-Tombes is a typical Morvan village located in the Morvan between the valleys of the Cure and Trinquelin. Quarré-les-Tombes hosts Checkpoint No. 4 Trailwalker 2017 with many events and a great pasta party.

School Partners

The Trailwalker

At Oxfam, we strongly believe that individuals coming together is the key to build a fairer world for all. Since our creation, we try to offer our volunteers innovative and exciting ways of taking action with Oxfam. Our aim is for every citizen to be able to take part in solidarity actions to relieve the less fortunate.

Our events

As a team of 4, you will trek 100km, within 30 hours, without relay, across the Morvan Regional Natural Park or in Normandy around Dieppe. The challenge is also to raise money from family and friends to support Oxfam’s actions. You will live an extraordinary human adventure !

Trailwalker Oxfam France is the ultimate team endurance event and a unique opportunity to actively help end poverty with every step you take. With our support you will push yourself and find the strength you never knew you had.

Some figures from the 2021 edition in Dieppe:

  • € 554 000 raised
  • 1224 walkers
  • 125 volunteers

An international event

Since the first event in 1981, thousands of walkers around the world have taken part in the challenge and walked collectively the equivalent of more than 100 world tours. Since the beginning, these Oxfam ambassadors have raised over 40 million euros.

Oxfam Trailwalker is fast becoming a global phenomenon: no less than 16 events are now held in 10 countries.

TRAILWALKER OXFAM around the world

Australia: BrisbaneMelbourneSydney
Belgium: Saint-Hubert
Spain: GironaMadridEuskadi
France: Trailwalker Morvan  Trailwalker Dieppe
Great-Britain: Park National de la rein Elizabeth
China: Hong Kong
India: MumbaiBengaluru
South Korea: Jeollanam-do
Japan: Tohoku
New-Zealand: Whakatāne

How we fight poverty

The injustice of poverty demands a powerful and practical response in order to address both its roots and its impact on people’s lives.

Using a seven-sided strategy to weave together the complex web of our efforts and participation with others, we seek to overcome poverty.

    • When people have the power to claim their basic human rights, they can escape poverty – permanently. This core belief underpins our development programmes in more than 90 countries. With our partners, allies and with local communities, we help people to claim rights for themselves.
    • Human development is often driven by empowered women. But women and girls are still massively under-represented and often oppressed. We work to help them speak out and demand justice, and to assert their leadership. The right to gender justice underpins all of our work.
    • When disaster strikes, we are there. We help people caught up in natural disasters and conflict. We typically provide clean water, food and sanitation in disaster zones. As far as we can, we strive to ensure that both the military and civilians are protected. We also seek to reduce the risk to poor people of future disasters by continuing to work with them long after the immediate crisis is over.
    • Natural resources are vital for prosperity, and poor people are often not getting their fair share. This situation is worsened by the impact of climate change which the international community is failing to address properly. We lobby governments, international organizations and corporations for fairer land policies, and take action on climate change.
    • To stop people going hungry, we work to secure global food supplies so that people always have enough to eat.
    • Right now, almost a billion of us go to bed hungry every night. Not because there isn’t enough. But because of the deep injustice in the way the food system works. We can grow in a better way– one that contributes much more to human wellbeing.
    • Being able to access basic services such as health and education is essential to people’s wellbeing and to human development. We push to secure adequate financial flows to sustain basic services for poor people.

OXFAM

Oxfam France is a member of the Oxfam Confederation, an international development organization that mobilizes citizen power against poverty.

    • 19 Oxfam affiliates
    • More than 90 countries of intervention
    • More than 1 billion euros of budget
    • 10,000 Oxfam employees around the world
    • 25 million direct beneficiaries of program
    • Acting since 1942 all over the world

 

Where do your donations go?

Oxfam France is a member of the Charter Committee.

The donations you collect are directly donated to Oxfam France to finance its programmes in favour of a fairer world.

Every action, campaign, research or tie-in with local partners is only possible through individual donations, which guarantee our independence and freedom of speech.

The Route

Official route for 2020

Checkpoints

    • Start: Avallon
    • Checkpoint 1: Saint-Germain-des-Champs
    • Checkpoint 2: Chastellux-sur-Cure
    • Checkpoint 3: Auxon (St-Brancher)
    • Checkpoint 4: Quarré-les-Tombes
    • Checkpoint 5: Saint-Léger-Vauban
    • Checkpoint 6: Sainte-Magnance
    • Checkpoint 7: Cussy-les-Forges
    • Checkpoint 8: Magny
    • Finish: Avallon