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...
by Bex | Adventure Specialties Trust | 16, Feb 2023 | All, Blog, Staff Profiles
Kyle has been an Auckland-based instructor for the last 3-and-a-half years, and is leaving to work at another wonderful youth organisation, Youth Town. Tim, our CEO, says, “Thanks, Kyle, for being a great team member. I’ve enjoyed seeing you develop your skills...
by Bex | Adventure Specialties Trust | 12, Feb 2023 | All, Blog, Staff Profiles
April, one of the instructors in Christchurch, shared this: “Grace has been an awesome colleague and friend to the AST instructor team. She enjoys a phat chat in the office and chewing over some of the challenging topics in life. She is well-known for her home...
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 | 8, Feb 2023 | Adventure With Purpose, All, Blog, Open Enrolment Programmes, Stories from Programmes
Why take young people caving? It’s a great way to challenge them, to ask them to step outside of their comfort zone (in a safe environment), to teach about teamwork and leadership, and a great way to give them the satisfaction of achieving something that they...
by Bex | Adventure Specialties Trust | 4, Feb 2023 | About Adventure Specialties Trust, All, Blog, Staff Profiles
The Adventure Specialties Trust whānau At our annual Staff Retreat, Pāhāōā marae, January 2023 😍 Back Row (left to right) (kinda) Tanya Laybourn (trustee), Papa Wii (marae host), Amy Horn and baby Lillian, Andy Balcar, Reuben Biggelaar, Oli George, Nathalie Nasrallah,...
by Bex | Adventure Specialties Trust | 1, Feb 2023 | About Adventure Specialties Trust, All, Blog, Learning about te ao Māori, Staff Profiles
Our annual staff retreat was held at the stunning Pāhāōa marae in Te Kaha, Bay of Plenty. We were hosted by the lovely Andrea (one of the Trust’s previous trustees) and her whānau and hapū (community). Some of the staff had stayed at the marae on a previous...
by Bex | Adventure Specialties Trust | 30, Jan 2023 | About Adventure Specialties Trust, All, Blog, Job Vacancies
JOB VACANCY: AUCKLAND OUTDOOR INSTRUCTOR We’re looking for a full-time instructor for our Auckland office! If you refer a friend for the job and they get the job, then you both receive a $300 gift voucher to the outdoor supplier of your choice! Here are the job...
by Bex | Adventure Specialties Trust | 16, Jan 2023 | Adventure With Purpose, All, Blog, Partnership Programmes, Stories from Programmes
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 | 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 | 9, Jan 2023 | About Adventure Specialties Trust, Adventure Therapy, Adventure With Purpose, All, Blog, Stories from Programmes
DESIGN YOUR OWN PROGRAMME Did you know that we run a variety of different programmes? All our programmes are fully customisable, depending on what your needs are: DURATION: Single day or multi-day (our youth camps are 5 days/4 nights, whereas our Inspire programmes...
