by Bex | Adventure Specialties Trust | 25, Mar 2023 | Adventure With Purpose, All, Blog, Partnership Programmes, Stories from Programmes
Raft building gives our participants a chance to try something new (like tying knots), a chance to work together as a team or give leadership a go, a chance to be outdoors in the beautiful sunshine and fresh air, and a chance to create happy memories with friends,...
by Bex | Adventure Specialties Trust | 23, Mar 2023 | Adventure With Purpose, All, Blog, Partnership Programmes, Stories from Programmes
Nothing beats a coasteering trip when the sun is shining and the water is warm!
by Bex | Adventure Specialties Trust | 22, Mar 2023 | Adventure Therapy, All, Blog, Open Enrolment Programmes, Upcoming Programmes
UPCOMING PROGRAMME: Inspire (Auckland) Are you an adult (18+) in Auckland who wants to improve your health, wellbeing, confidence and connection to others? Come join us on an adventure! Once a week Our “Inspire” programme is one day a week for 8 weeks...
by Bex | Adventure Specialties Trust | 20, Mar 2023 | Adventure With Purpose, All, Blog, Partnership Programmes, Stories from Programmes
Raft building + a race! Such a fun week with Diocesan Girls School. This was their start-of-the-year classroom group bonding activity, and it was a roaring success 🤩
by Bex | Adventure Specialties Trust | 6, Mar 2023 | Adventure Therapy, All, Blog, Open Enrolment Programmes, Upcoming Programmes
IGNITE (North Island) An adventure therapy camp for young people (15-18 years old). If you (or a young person you know) are looking for ways increase your sense of health and wellbeing, find better ways to cope with stress and anxiety, and discover hope for your...
by Bex | Adventure Specialties Trust | 4, Mar 2023 | About Adventure Specialties Trust, All, Blog, Media, Open Enrolment Programmes, Stories from Programmes
We are super stoked to share that Adventure Specialties Trust has been awarded the Te Tohu Whakaaweawe Kaupapa (Outstanding Event or Programme Award), presented by Recreation Aotearoa.The Recreation Aotearoa Outdoor Awards celebrate individuals and organisations that...
by Bex | Adventure Specialties Trust | 2, Mar 2023 | Adventure With Purpose, All, Blog, Open Enrolment Programmes, Stories from Programmes
by Bex | Adventure Specialties Trust | 27, Feb 2023 | Adventure With Purpose, All, Blog, Bush Skills, Feedback from Participants and Clients, Partnership Programmes, Stories from Programmes
One of our regular programmes is a 21-day camp with Year 10 students from Kings College in Auckland. The students spend the first nine days at a camp in Northland, learning bushcraft skills and doing team-building activities, like building huts together. The next five...
by Bex | Adventure Specialties Trust | 25, Feb 2023 | About Adventure Specialties Trust, All, Blog, Staff Profiles
The Christchurch team went on a “work” kayaking trip. Do you think they can call it work when they look that happy?!?? The actual purpose of the trip was so that our new instructor Rebecca could get deployed for white water #kayaking (she needed some...
by Bex | Adventure Specialties Trust | 23, Feb 2023 | All, Blog, Stories from Programmes
“It was a teambuilding exercise,” says Peter the instructor. “The brief was that each team had to make a rigid raft using both kayaks and come up with a team plan, before racing to the Avon River, paddling downstream, getting out on the far side,...
by Bex | Adventure Specialties Trust | 20, Feb 2023 | Adventure Therapy, Adventure With Purpose, All, Blog, Staff Profiles, Stories from Programmes
by Bex | Adventure Specialties Trust | 18, Feb 2023 | About Adventure Specialties Trust, Adventure With Purpose, All, Blog, Open Enrolment Programmes, Partnership Programmes, Stories from Programmes
Our vision is “Lives Inspired by Adventure.” But that doesn’t mean hurtling yourself down a ski slope at top speed, or throwing yourself off a 10m ledge into the water below. It simply means that each person – each participant on our programmes...