We have six UK residential centres all located in areas of outstanding natural beauty.
Lake District
Snowdonia
The Highlands
I did an Outward Bound course in 1959 in Devon, and many experiences of that period are still vivid in my memory. As a smoker, I found myself having to stop…
I remember being delighted to hear my father had secured funds from the Variety Club (a bursary) so I could attend the three week course at Aberdovey as soon…
I went with Beacon Hill School Ipswich.It was the first holiday with out my parents and family.School was amazed how different I was with challenges and my…
I attended the O.B.S.S. at Aberdovey in1953, sponsored by my employer, R&W Hawthorn Leslie, shipbuilders. I achieved the Honours award, which the Co. took from…
As a prospective Midshipman in Blue Funnel Line, I attended Outward Bound Moray Sea School in September1957. This was course 72 and I was in Rodney watch.…
I have passed the gates many times since I was at Ullswater in 1967, and I always wanted to enter but never did. Now thanks to the hospitality of Annette and…
MALLORY PATROL, ESKDALE OUTWARD BOUND MOUNTAIN SCHOOL, COURSE E197, NOV TO DEC '69.Woken each day at 6.30 am. Run down side of tarn to old stables in shorts…
I was at Aberdovey OB School either in '64 or '65 (sorry cannot remember exactly which)! I joined Blue Funnel as Midshipman in spring of '65. I remember I was…
whilst serving my apprenticeship with Bruce Peebles Engineers Edinburgh I was selected to attend the senior course at BurgheadI think it started or November in…
I was employed by the Port of London Authority and it was its policy to send some male staff off to OB just prior to their National Service in order to…
The below photos are from my Kenyan Outward Bound adventure as a schoolboy in Nairobi in the fifties. It certainly gave me the bug as I went on to climb Mount…