We have six UK residential centres all located in areas of outstanding natural beauty.
Lake District
Snowdonia
The Highlands
It was a summer evening in 1986 when I arrived at Loch Eil after a very, very long, lonely train journey from Devon as a timid 18-year-old. I can still…
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WHILST ON FURLOUGH I HAVE BEEN VOLUNTEERING FOR THE MAUDSLEY CHARITY
I attended the Outward Bound Sea School in Aberdovey in October 1953, course no 133, prior to joining Alfred Holt as a Midshipman. I served with Blue Funnel…
Having been born in 1941, I am the same vintage as the Outward Bound Sea School at Aberdovey, which I attended in 1961. At 20, I was one of the older people on…
Making a meaningful difference to the lives of young people.
As I start to write today (19.55. 25.03.2017) I look back to my OBSS Aberdovey Log, exactly 60 years ago. “We had a huge Supper at 20.00 hrs. I then turned in…
Aged eighteen, in October 1957, I spent a month on an Outward Bound course at Eskdale Green which proved to be one of the most influential and enabling…
This was all part of working at ICI Dulux Paints in Slough. Two of us selected to go to the YMCA camp on the western shore of Lake Windermere that summer. The…
I went to Moray in 1972 as part of my management development at IBM in Croydon, Surrey. It was an exciting and daunting experience. Scotland in the middle of…
Former course participants return to their centre
Why come to Outward Bound? Young people are faced with lots of choice nowadays. Getting them to put aside their nerves, feel excited and commit to a…
