Gift Your Gear Donation

Sarah & Luis from Gift Your Gear donate outdoor items to SEM

In early October, SEM’s Maxwell Ayamba travels to Manchester to meet Sarah and Luis from the charity  Gift Your Gear receives a much needed donation of outdoor walking gear.

Maxwell says; “I’ve been visiting Sarah at Gift Your Gear for a number of years now and its great visit, to share news and to receive such amazing support!”

This donation of coats, walking sticks, warm fleeces, backpacks and walking boots aids SEM’s core aim which is to enable a diverse range of community groups to access the countryside.

Gift Your Gear  supports community organisations, youth groups and charities working with young people in the outdoors. The outdoor gear you donate makes a real difference enabling life changing experiences in the great outdoors, regardless of circumstance.

Rohan Gift Your Gear

SEM gets a donation of walking clothes and gear from Rohan Outdoor Clothing Suppliers! Maxwell invited the Gift Your Gear Rohan team to spend a day with the Sheffield and District African Caribbean Community Association (SADACCA) in Sheffield to gain insight into some of the activities the group gets up to, and to find out how gear donated by Rohan customers is used for taking part in those activities.

You can find out more here

Gift Your Gear at any Rohan store between 29 August and 30 September to receive 15% off your next full price Rohan purchase. Find out more rohan.co.uk/giftyourgear.

Great Yorkshire Show 2019

SADACCA womens group attend the Great Yorkshire Show at

SEM’s Maxwell Ayamba took a groups of from Sheffield and District Afro-Caribbean Association to  had a great time learning how the agricultural industry manages the UKs rural spaces.

Having spent on average, over 50 years living in the UK, this was the first time that many of the group got a chance to connect with which reminded many of the rural spaces in the Caribbean.

The event was covered by both ITV & BBC News

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Maxwell Visits Parliment

Maxwell Ayamba With Minister and MP Michael Ellis

On 10th July 2019 Maxwell Ayamba from SEM went to the Houses of Parliament in London to attend an event organised by the Ramblers Association for “Britain’s Best Walking Neighbourhood Award”, which was won by Falkirk in Scotland. The key note speaker was Minister of State at the Department of Transport and MP for Northampton North Michael Ellis