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 | 15, Jul 2023 | About Adventure Specialties Trust, Adventure Therapy, All, Blog, Open Enrolment Programmes, Stories from Programmes
by Bex | Adventure Specialties Trust | 17, Jun 2023 | Adventure With Purpose, All, Blog, Partnership Programmes, Stories from Programmes
Some stunning photos by Instructor April from a 3-day sea kayak trip with Rangiora College, Canterbury. April says, “We left from Cass Bay, stayed on Ōtamahua (Quail Island) for two nights, then paddled to Ripapa Island. Ripapa Island is tapu so you can’t...
by Bex | Adventure Specialties Trust | 15, Jun 2023 | Adventure With Purpose, All, Blog, Open Enrolment Programmes, Partnership Programmes, Stories from Programmes
Seven-day Girls Journey Here is a reflection, written by the young women who went on the recent 7-day Journey through Marlborough Sounds with our Christchurch instructors, Grace and April. “We really enjoyed spending a week in the outdoors as a group and had an...
by Bex | Adventure Specialties Trust | 29, May 2023 | Adventure With Purpose, All, Blog, Partnership Programmes, Stories from Programmes
Sea kayak adventure with Cashmere High School, Christchurch.
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 | 2, May 2023 | Adventure Therapy, All, Blog, Open Enrolment Programmes, Upcoming Programmes
Our IGNITE Adventure Therapy Youth Camp last week was a rip-roaring success! Next one coming up on the Term 2 school hols (3rd-7th July) so sign up now! What is the IGNITE camp? It’s five days, four nights of outdoor adventure activities (kayaking, zip line,...
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 | 20, Jul 2022 | Adventure With Purpose, All, Blog, Stories from Programmes
Check out these stunning photos, taken by Instructor April, on a 6-day journey across the West coast of the South Island with Titirangi Rudolf Steiner school. Read more info about the journey below the photos … The Journey Long before the Waimakariri River was a...
by Bex | Adventure Specialties Trust | 27, Jun 2022 | All, Blog, Upcoming Programmes
BREAKAWAY APPLICATIONS OPEN NOW! This is our eternally popular FREE school holiday programme for teenagers in West Auckland. WHO: There are different programmes for juniors (11-13 years old) and seniors (14-17 years old). Strict eligibility criteria apply so please...
