We have six UK residential centres all located in areas of outstanding natural beauty.
Lake District
Snowdonia
The Highlands
It's Sunday morning in early March 1964 looking up the steps of the Warspite Block. On either side are our accommodation huts and up the top is one of the…
As an 18 year old I had won a bursary from my grammer school to go for a month to the Sea Schoool at Aberdovy and I also had a place at Manchester University…
I was an Air Training Corps cadet, with an offer of a University Cadetship and a commission in the RAF. I was sent by the RAF to the Moray Sea School for a…
I was 17 years old and had been with my employer for less than a year when the selection process was announced to send two young employees on an Outward Bound…
Hello,I write on behalf of my Father Bernard Sifflett of Runcorn. who is unfortunately suffering from dementia.He attended Outward Bound before joining Blue…
To the best of my memory and calculations I joined the Aberdovey School in 1965 with the guys in the photo, some of whom I met on the train as they were…
In 1964, I was nearly eighteen and working as a British Rail clerk in a Central Accounting office in Stevenage New town, (as it was called then) when, in June,…
This weekend my wife and I were travelling thro the lake and saw a road sign for Eskdale Green. Memories came flooding back of what I can only describe as one…
As a sixteen year old Police cadet in the Midlands I attended the one month course in the north of Scotland in January and yes, it was cold. My group was a…
RETURN TO ABERDOVEYNow in my 81st year, I made a very nostalgic return visit to Aberdovey on 1 Oct 2013. Almost 65 years had passed since I attended the 81st…
I grew up with the Outward Bound in my blood, or that is how it felt at the time, fascinated by my father's stories and the impact it had upon his life. My…
I lived in High Wycombe during most of WWII and in July 1944 I joined the local Sea Cadets at the age of 13, together with two friends. All three of us…
