Tales of a Travel Agent podcasters plan cliff-camping charity challenge

The co-hosts of the Tales of A Travel Agent podcast aim to raise hundreds of pounds for two charities by camping on a coastal cliff-face overnight.

 

Jake Cullum-Hollins, chief executive of The Good Travel Agent, and Club Voyages consultant Becky Walker have teamed up for the “ridiculous challenge” in July to support Good Hope Moshi in Tanzania and Adoption Focus in the UK.

 

They will be suspended over the sea in Pembrokeshire, trying to sleep in a ‘portaledge’ – a hanging tent generally used by climbers on a big wall climb.

 

Listeners to the podcast will know that Becky is an adrenaline junkie and “constantly on the lookout for the next activity that could kill her” – as well helping numerous charitable and volunteering projects.

 

In March, she raised more than £1,800 for Reuben’s Retreat and her local hospital in a charity boxing match.

 

She has been involved with Good Hope since 2020, helping the charity to lift children out of poverty with tutoring and finding sponsors for secondary school education.

 

The charity also helps provide meals for the children, who may otherwise only have one meal a day, as well as reusable sanitary pads made from fabric.

 

Meanwhile, Adoption Focus is an adoption charity based in Birmingham which helps children find loving, permanent homes and supports adoptive families.

 

Jake and his husband Oli turned to Adoption Focus in 2018 to help complete their family.

 

“From the very first conversation to the moment they welcomed their child home, they were struck by just how seamless, supportive and human the whole journey felt,” said Becky.

 

“In what can often be an overwhelming and emotionally complex process, Adoption Focus had a remarkable ability to make everything feel manageable and –more than that – truly joyful.”

 

Becky and Jake have also recently celebrated the one-year anniversary of their podcast, describing it as “an amazing passion project” for them both.

 

“This has always been about doing something fun and light-hearted that our listeners can relate to and the response has been fantastic,” Jake said, noting how it gives agents the sense of ‘it isn’t just me’.

 

“We have a great loyal base of listeners who love to get involved with the discussions that we have by emailing in and new listeners tuning in all the time.

 

“We promise to bring real talk that’s always unfiltered and often totally chaotic. When we meet listeners out and about, we are consistently told that it is so nice to listen to people who ‘get it’ – it’s not a podcast that is confined by who is sponsoring it. We would record the same content whether we had one listener (Becky’s mom) or one million.”

 

For more details of their cliff-camping challenge with Rise & Summit, and to donate to the ‘Becky & Jake are on the edge!’ fundraiser, click here.

 

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