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 | 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 | 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 | 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...
by Bex | Adventure Specialties Trust | 11, Feb 2023 | All, Blog, Feedback from Participants and Clients, Partnership Programmes
Thank you to Patricia from Mahitahi Trust who left some lovely feedback about one of our Adventure Therapy programmes with Mahitahi, working with adults going through drug and alcohol rehab last year. “The outcomes seen within our rōpū [group] are: Stronger...
by Bex | Adventure Specialties Trust | 16, Jan 2023 | Adventure With Purpose, All, Blog, Partnership Programmes, Stories from Programmes
by Bex | Adventure Specialties Trust | 13, Jan 2023 | Adventure Therapy, All, Blog, Open Enrolment Programmes, Partnership Programmes, Stories from Programmes
(Apologies to instructors Rani and Oli who *might* have filmed this video just for laughs and not for sharing on social media) Family Camp caving adventure! This is from a recent family camp, going through the glow worm caves in Waipu, Northland. We run a couple of...
by Bex | Adventure Specialties Trust | 6, Jan 2023 | Adventure Therapy, All, Blog, Learning about te ao Māori, Open Enrolment Programmes, Partnership Programmes, Stories from Programmes
Our final Te Māhuri programme of 2022, in partnership with Purapura Whetu Trust, journeying through the stunning Canterbury hills with a group of Māori rangatahi (youth). Te Māhuri is a free kaupapa Māori programme for rangatahi in Ōtautahi Christchurch. It is an...
by Bex | Adventure Specialties Trust | 30, Dec 2022 | Adventure With Purpose, All, Blog, Featured Hike, Partnership Programmes, Stories from Programmes
Where are you going exploring this summer? This is St Kentigern College students on their ‘Field Centre’ expedition last month, in Tongariro National Park.
by Bex | Adventure Specialties Trust | 28, Dec 2022 | Adventure Therapy, All, Blog, Partnership Programmes, Stories from Programmes
Feedback from some of the participants on a recent Family Camp with instructors Dave and Rani 😎
by Bex | Adventure Specialties Trust | 16, Dec 2022 | Adventure With Purpose, All, Blog, Partnership Programmes, Stories from Programmes
Cave Stream Earlier this month, we met a group of students from Breens Intermediate School at Cave Stream Scenic Reserve in Canterbury. If you haven’t heard of Cave Stream before, it is a stunning limestone cave that twists and turns over a distance of 594m with a...
by Bex | Adventure Specialties Trust | 7, Dec 2022 | Adventure With Purpose, All, Blog, Featured Hike, Partnership Programmes, Stories from Programmes
Aorere College prefects, soaking up the stunning view at the trig point of Ōmanawanui Track, one of the walks in the Waitākere Ranges.