by Bex | Adventure Specialties Trust | 7, Dec 2023 | Adventure With Purpose, All, Blog, Bush Skills, Feedback from Participants and Clients, Newsletter, Partnership Programmes, Stories from Programmes
KidsCan is a New Zealand charity on a mission to help kiwi children who are living in poverty and going without essentials like food, warm clothing and shoes. KidsCan believes that “Education is a pathway out of poverty [but] children can’t learn if they are cold and...
by Bex | Adventure Specialties Trust | 24, Jul 2023 | All, Blog, Bush Skills, Staff Profiles
CONGRATS to our instructors (Isaac, Nat, Oli and Anna S) who have just passed the 3-day NZOIA Bush 1 qualification last week! Contrary to the name, “Bush 1” is not an easy or entry-level qualification. It is very a challenging assessment that includes...
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 | 14, Jan 2023 | Adventure Therapy, Adventure With Purpose, All, Blog, Bush Skills, Stories from Programmes
Do you enjoy camping in a tent? There are fun parts and not-so-fun parts about camping! Our programmes often include camping in tents, with all the of fun and challenges that camping entails …
by Bex | Adventure Specialties Trust | 7, Nov 2022 | Adventure With Purpose, All, Blog, Bush Skills, Stories from Programmes
A short 5-second video showing the the stunning Southern Alps and students from Rangiora High School in Canterbury on their survival camp with Instructor April.
by Bex | Adventure Specialties Trust | 5, Aug 2022 | Adventure With Purpose, All, Blog, Bush Skills, Stories from Programmes
Our instructors Peter, Joe and Oli took five students from Rutherford High School on a ten-day Journey. Here is a short slideshow of their photos, including hiking, camping and bush skills, river crossings, mountain biking, team building activities, cooking together,...
by Bex | Adventure Specialties Trust | 1, Aug 2022 | All, Blog, Bush Skills
Just for fun! A short 30-second video created by Instructor Anna during the first lockdown in 2020.