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  • 6 October 2025
  • Ideas and issues

Why AI can’t do the hard stuff

For apprentices and graduates entering the workforce, there’s a hard truth emerging; AI might help you do the job, but it can’t be the job.
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A group of young people gathered outdoors, listening to an older man while examining a map under a bright sun with sunlight creating lens flare.
  • 1 October 2025
  • Life at Outward Bound

Starting the year in the gorge

Why September might be the best month for a residential
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Girl gorge scrambling in blue helmet with boy in the background
  • 17 September 2025
  • Life at Outward Bound

“They just needed a chance"

In the depths of winter, 24 teenagers from Clydebank boarded a train bound for Loch Eil. Most had never been this far from home, some had never left Clydebank at all. This is their story...
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Group of hikers with backpacks walking along a coastal trail through brown grass and rugged hills under a clear sky.
  • 16 September 2025
  • Ideas and issues

An Open Letter to the Prime Minister

Every young person deserves residential stays in nature
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A boy and a girl looking out onto an epix landscape
  • 12 September 2025
  • Ideas and issues

Why belonging matters in schools

According to the National Children’s Bureau (NCB), only 60% of pupils in England feel a genuine sense of belonging at school.
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Three children in outdoor gear and backpacks sit on rocks with a stone structure behind, smiling and chatting in a mountainous landscape.
  • 9 September 2025
  • Ideas and issues

What if this was the turning point?

One MSP, a camera crew, and a group of young Scots with a message that matters.
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Participant Evie, talking to BBC Scotland's cameraman and journalist at Loch Eil
  • 1 September 2025
  • Ideas and issues

The early careers crossroads

How do you retain and develop the young talent we’ve worked so hard to attract?
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Two people in orange wetsuits and yellow helmets reach out to each other across a small river in a lush, green forest.
  • 20 August 2025
  • Ideas and issues

You are more than your grades

Whether you’re buzzing with relief or feeling like things didn’t go to plan, Preet has a message for you.
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Preet speaking about her GCSE grades into a mic
  • 13 August 2025
  • Young people’s voices

19 Days off-grid. Today, the results roll in.

While young people across England and Wales counted down to their A-level results day, Isla has been counting mountain summits.
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Isla stood in the grounds of our Ullswater Centre smiling
  • 6 August 2025
  • Our supporters

When Polar Preet came to Outward Bound

It’s not every day a polar explorer shows up at Outward Bound. Then again, not every explorer is Preet Chandi.
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Preet stood next to a participant, smiling in their wetsuits
  • 4 August 2025
  • Life at Outward Bound

A summer adventure with Amber Keegan

“You realise you’re stronger than you think”: A summer adventure with GB swimmer Amber Keegan
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A whol group photo of everyone laughing and smiling in Ullswater
  • 31 July 2025
  • Young people’s voices

Harvey wins the Outward Bound Award

A moment worth celebrating: Harvey’s story and the first ever Outward Bound Award
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harvey sat in his assembly hall surrounded by his classmates