Minchin, best known for presenting BBC Breakfast for two decades, will be at the Burn How Hotel in Bowness-on-Windermere on Saturday, May 3.
A patron of Move Against Cancer, visitors will be asked to donate £10 to the charity as an entry fee.
Event organiser Vicky Robinson said: “We have been long-time supporters of the Move charity.
“So we are delighted to have the opportunity to raise money for them with a celebrity edition of our ‘Meet the Author’ sessions.”
‘Meet the Author’ events are regularly held at the Burn How Hotel (Image: Yana Audas)
The event will see Minchin discuss her life and career from TV reality shows to ultra-distance endurance events.
Move Against Cancer is a community-based initiative to encourage those living with and beyond cancer, their families and friends, and those working in cancer services to walk, jog, run, cheer or volunteer at designated parkrun events on the last Saturday of every month.
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The first ‘5k Your Way’ in south Cumbria will take place at Fell Foot parkrun the previous Saturday on April 26.
Minchin has served as a news anchor on the BBC News Channel and the BBC’s One O’clock News, having also presented The One Show, Five Live Drive, Real Rescues and Missing Live.
She has also written several books – her first, ‘Dare to Tri’, charted her journey from the BBC Breakfast sofa to representing the Great Britain Triathlon team in her age-group at World and European Championships.
Her second book, ‘Fearless: Adventures with Extraordinary Women’, reflects her passion for celebrating women’s success in sport and endeavour.
Meanwhile, her debut thriller Isolation Island is set in a gruelling reality television show on a remote Scottish island.
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At the Burn How Hotel, she will be in conversation with Jo Moseley, who has written two books about paddleboarding and has featured in the ‘Meet the Author’ events previously.
The hotel stages regular editions of these special events, usually on the last Wednesday in the month, with wild swimming novelist Ellie Wood appearing on April 30.
There is no need to book in advance for any of the ‘Meet the Author’ sessions, but more information can be found here.
