We have six UK residential centres all located in areas of outstanding natural beauty.
Lake District
Snowdonia
The Highlands
I am a former Outward Bound student who at the age of 18 was selected by my employer Total Broadhurst Lee Co Ltd of Manchester to attend the school at Eskdale…
I Doff my hat and tilt my glass to the many instructors who do this character building work. Keep it up, Bravo! Outward Bound has been able to identify many…
The decision to write My Story came about during a brief visit to The Outward Bound Trust in Eskdale a couple of weeks ago during a short holiday in the…
My course name was U87J and I was in Watcons patrol. I was the only Irish boy there at the time from Belfast. My most shocking memory is my first cold shower…
Outward Bound Generations Course U118 – 10th April to 6th May 1967. I am now 67 years of age, and was born in Merseyside. I commenced work aged 15 years as an…
A month on Dartmoor for January was an awakening. I was used to camping and walking with boots which gave me an advantage when I saw some of the blisters other…
I was born in Liverpool in 1940, and in 1955 my father was a Warehouse Superintendent for the then Blue Funnel Line, he wanted me to follow him him into the…
The six weeks I spent at the Moray Sea School in Burghead Scotland was a wonderful experience some of the disciplines taught have stayed with me and helped…
At the time I was a Police Cadet in the Lancashire Constabulary, based at their police headquarters at Hutton, near Preston. I was very lucky to be selected to…
I was a pupil at Gordonstoun in about 1942 when it was relocated to Wales, at a village called Llandinham Not sure of the spelling. The Outward bound school…
Arrived on the 10th January 1971, freezing cold. Was with a great group of guys. Why we were there there was a national post strike so no letters or phone…
Mr Broadfield kindly sent us his Outward Bound course log book, of which below are extracts of his entries, which we have posted to the website with his…
