Read some of the latest news from Aurora Adventures
Join us as we take on Kokoda over ANZAC Day in 2024 to honour both current and past Australians who have served in the Australian Defence Forces. Aurora Adventures is partnering with military charity Bravery Trust providing a unique way to show your support for those who serve our country. Walk in the steps of the diggers and ‘stand in …
2020 has been a crazy year! Through bushfires followed by a global pandemic, international and state border closures, home schooling and lots of uncertainty for many women and their families, we are certainly due for some well deserved ‘girl-time’ in the great outdoors to help us unwind and reset while getting ‘moving’ again. Welcome to Aurora’s ‘Wild Women Adventures’ series …
We are excited to announce a new campaign to get Australians out in nature again to support local communities. We are looking for charities and individuals to join our ‘Inter-Missions’. Our ‘Inter-Missions’ are all about taking community-minded people to places throughout Australia, to experience the extreme beauty of this country and to make a difference while they are there by …
Aurora have been proud to support the Alastair Rushworth PhD Scholarship Fund and the Queensland Brain Institute since 2018 on various fundraising activities to assist their vital work in Dementia Research. Here, founder of the research scholarship Janice Rushworth tells her story about the power of charity adventures to raise both awareness and funds to change the world.
Organ donation awareness charity Save Lives Donate Organs have worked with Aurora for the past 2 years on numerous charity adventure and fundraising events. SLDO committee member Taryn Lovegrove talks here about working in this space and the benefits to her organisation of working with Aurora to assist with building awareness of the SLDO mission and to increase fundraising to …
‘I went with a group of colleagues to Kokoda with Aurora Adventures, fundraising for our charity partner and I must say that I cannot imagine doing the trek with any other tour company. The leaders made me feel valued and confident, and they go the extra mile with lots of extra little special things on the trek to make the …
Aurora Women will soon be hitting the trails of Tasmania as part of a new charity trek to raise money for the Centre for Women and Co. The 3 Capes Tasmania Trek is the first all-women charity adventure challenge, run under the ‘Aurora Women – #WomenWhoRoar’ community. Participants will fly south at the end of October and make their …
A new training experience has launched, to give ultimate adventurers a motivating way to keep fit or prepare for their next expedition. Aurora Adventures is challenging past and new explorers to ‘train like an adventurer,’ through the new Team Aurora Adventure Training sessions. A 12-week adventure training program will be available through an app, to ensure participants have instant access …
It’s the most wonderful time of the year. Come join us on December 1st at the Triffid in Newstead for the annual Team Aurora pre-Christmas Trekker catchup! Always a great event, this is an great opportunity to get your trek mates together to relive some great memories and tell some tall trekking tales. Friends and family are most welcome so we …
A big shout out to all the 777 National Runners who have already registered to take on the Bravehearts’ 777 Marathon 2021! This 7-day fundraising challenge, now moving into its 5th year, will see some extraordinary efforts of courage and endurance by the National runner team as they tackle 7 consecutive marathons, across 7 states, in 7 days. Runners can …
The ancient Kumano Kodo Trail in Japan has long been a place of pilgrimage. From the 11th century successive emperors and their families made the long and sometimes difficult pilgrimage to Kumano from Kyoto and several trails were established, among them the Nakahechi-do, Kohechi-do and Chechi-do, collectively known as the Kumano Kodo meaning ‘Old Road of Kumano’. Today the this well-maintained …
Join us for our next Aussie fundraising adventure as we take on the Larapinta Trail with our friends from Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia from 3-8 May 2019. The Larapinta Trail is one of Australia’s most spectacular bushwalking and trekking experiences. It is quickly emerging as one of the most popular trails in Australia and was voted by National Geographic …
