We have six UK residential centres all located in areas of outstanding natural beauty.
Lake District
Snowdonia
The Highlands
At the age of 49 I 'won' a course in a Soroptimist raffle and, somewhat concerned, found myself with 8 considerably younger participants. However, from the…
OBB277 - Ah, in those days the course was run by the British Army and myself and ~20 or so Canadian Army Cadets were given the great experience of attending…
I was a Conway boy attending my first year at Gordonstoun, which due to war hostilities, had been evacuated from Scotland to Llandinum. The war ended (1945)…
MEMORIES FROM 1962, ULLSWATER, COURSE U74FROM 19TH NOVEMBER TO 15TH DECEMBER 1962The rain was coming down in buckets at Carnforth Railway Station. It was pitch…
During the summer of 1970, as 'technical apprentice of the year', I was given the opportunity to undergo a month's training at the Outward Bound Mountain…
I was selected as apprentice of the year by the Western Region of British Railways during 1963 and my prize, was if I remember correctly twenty one days at…
HiI'm Norwegian (now living in Denmark).Back in 1977, at my 16.th birthday, I was given a 4 week Rovercourse (R15) that same month (from june 26 - july 20) at…
My name is Graham Cooke and I attended an Outward Bound course in 1980. I believe it was at the Rhowniar Centre though I understand it was known generally as…
I attended Outward Bound Sea School at Burghead Morayshire, Scotland in 1959.My company sent me there at the age of 17. I had already been in employment for…
Somewhere I have some photographs that have the course date etc, however one thing that stood out was when Drake Watch were to do their spell on the Prince…
I attended Burghead on CourseM152 from 20th September to 16th October of 1965 at the behest of my would be employer Alfred Holt and co (who operated the Blue…
Memorable experiences at Eskdale were immediate,maybe even on the first day when we walked locally and stopped on a bridge over a rapid mountain stream far…
