by Bex | Adventure Specialties Trust | 7, Oct 2024 | About Adventure Specialties Trust, All, Blog, Staff Profiles
Congratulations to Mark Johnston for being awarded the Tall Tōtara award at last week’s NZOIA Excellence Awards 2024! Awarded to a current instructor or guide who personifies ‘excellence in outdoor leadership’. A highly respected role model, someone...
by Bex | Adventure Specialties Trust | 5, Oct 2024 | About Adventure Specialties Trust, All, Blog, Staff Profiles
Congratulations to our CEO, Tim Wills, for being recognised as an Honorary Life Member at the NZOIA Excellence Awards last week! This award is awarded to a member who personifies the very best combination of an excellent instructor/guide, a high achieving personal...
by Bex | Adventure Specialties Trust | 19, Dec 2023 | About Adventure Specialties Trust, All, Blog, Newsletter, Staff Profiles
[This message is copied from our Christmas newsletter. Read the rest of the newsletter here.] Meri Kirihimete! I hope this year has been a fulfilling one and now you have some time to relax and enjoy a slower pace. Our staff are looking forward to a well-deserved...
by Bex | Adventure Specialties Trust | 31, Jul 2023 | About Adventure Specialties Trust, All, Blog, Staff Profiles
Our Christchurch team got together a few weeks ago for a 2-day staff training event (which happens once each term). Instructor Peter described it like this: “April ran a session up at Sign of the Bellbird on pūrākau [Māori myths and legends], looking at the...
by Bex | Adventure Specialties Trust | 27, Jul 2023 | All, Blog, Staff Profiles
FAREWELL DAVE! The man, the myth, the legend … After an adventure-filled 10 years, we are sadly saying farewell to Dave, one of our most experienced outdoor instructors and Adventure Therapy facilitators. Dave and his wife, Sophia, and their little ones are...
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 | 10, Jun 2023 | About Adventure Specialties Trust, All, Blog, Staff Profiles
Five Fun Facts about Andy Balcar, our beloved Christchurch manager! 1. I used to play the Trombone2. I brew my own beer and recently attempted to make my own beer from all my own home-grown ingredients – I failed😊3. I have won 3 x Giant Pumpkin Contests4. I love...
by Bex | Adventure Specialties Trust | 22, May 2023 | About Adventure Specialties Trust, All, Blog, Staff Profiles
by Bex | Adventure Specialties Trust | 6, May 2023 | About Adventure Specialties Trust, All, Blog, Staff Profiles
A whole bunch of Adventure Specialties Trust staff (including instructors, adventure therapy clinicians, contractors, interns and our Safety and Training manager) went on a 5-day “Kayak Block Course” where they got a chance to practice a wide range of...
by Bex | Adventure Specialties Trust | 20, Apr 2023 | About Adventure Specialties Trust, Adventure Therapy, All, Blog, Media, Staff Profiles
Our CEO is famous! Tim Wills stars in a recent Stuff.co.nz article titled ‘How outdoor adventure is a key tool for tackling our mental health crisis’.Read the article on the Stuff.co.nz website, or keep reading for the copy-and-paste version below: How...
by Bex | Adventure Specialties Trust | 1, Apr 2023 | About Adventure Specialties Trust, All, Blog, Staff Profiles
New uniform for Adventure Specialties Trust staff?!?
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...
