Hike in Tanzania for the tax charities

This story recounts how deep the #KiliTax2022 team had to dig to achieve their goal – although probably no deeper than many tax charities’ clients have to dig every day.

In the beginning…

Have you ever become frustrated in a meeting and suggested something slightly off the wall to prod people into action? Well be careful!

In January 2019 I’d been invited to a fundraising meeting in aid of the tax charities TaxAid and Tax Help for Older People. I suggested we did ‘something more exciting’ to encourage more people to become involved. Little did I realise this was the start of a three-and-a-half-year project to climb Kilimanjaro the highest (and probably the coldest) point in Africa.

What on earth inspired me to put myself through such a challenge? It was the wonderful work the tax charities do with their highly vulnerable clients. I started...