by Bex | Adventure Specialties Trust | 27, Apr 2023 | About Adventure Specialties Trust, Adventure With Purpose, All, Blog, Inspirational Quotes, Stories from Programmes
“Never before in human history have our brains had to process as much information as they do today. We have a generation of people who I call ‘computer suckers’ because they are spending so much time in front of a computer screen or on their mobile phones. They are so...
by Bex | Adventure Specialties Trust | 14, Nov 2022 | About Adventure Specialties Trust, All, Blog, Staff Profiles
THE TRUST’S BEGINNINGS – by Glenda Simpkin, co-founder with her late husband, Lyndsay Skimpkin “Lyndsay and I met at Youth For Christ (YFC), where we had been working together. That’s where our story begins. He was the Campus Life director for Auckland at...
by Bex | Adventure Specialties Trust | 22, Jul 2022 | About Adventure Specialties Trust, All, Blog
“There are three ways of trying to influence the young: There is persuasion, there is compulsion, and there is attraction. You can preach at them: that is a hook without a worm. You can say ‘you must volunteer’: that is of the devil. And you can tell them, ‘You are...