Next year, a team of students from the University of Westminster will be setting off to Tanzania to climb the tallest free-standing mountain in the world, Kilimanjaro.

We aim to raise money enough to aid in the work of the charity Dig Deep, that through their work since 2007 have provided 25,000 people with access to clean water, and the schools of five communities with renewable cooking gas supplies in Kenya.

At an incredible 8,985 metres above sea level, climbing Kilimanjaro is no easy feat, but then neither is raising £30,000 that we intend as a group to raise for Dig Deep.

I've always felt charity work and an ethical lifestyle is my way of putting something back into the world, to help those who need it most, whose position we could so easily have been born into ourselves. As a result, when I was fifteen I cycled hundreds of miles in under a day raising sums for WaterAid and later volunteering with local Air Cadets raising money for cancer charities and special homes for the terminally ill.

Every penny, every pound, is one step closer to our goal, so please dig deep for Dig Deep.

James.