New faces and New activities

I’m just taking the time to pay some attention to this long neglected blog section of our website by shouting about all the great things we have going on at the moment.

When we first started we wanted to be like a travelling outdoor activity centre and I think we do a great job of that, but over covid we realised that maybe we should set our aspirations a little higher, after all, outdoor centres have been around for a long time and they have changed very little. I think we can innovate!

How is it that in 1 hour a whole class of 30 spend more time climbing with us than they do at a some centres with an hour an half and 12 pupils? It doesn’t make sense to us. Taking part is where the magic happens..not when listening to an extended, slow and boring safety brief. Sure, we need to talk about safety but if we’re talking for more than a few minutes who is listening anyway? Our focus has to always focus on the good stuff, the doing which is why I’m excited to introduce our two latest activities.

Circus skills

We were looking for an activity that met the following criteria:

• Something suitable for most primary children, including KS1

• Something that would keep everybody involved and doing at the same time with little or no waiting

Adding circus workshops has been on my mind for years. I personally grew up playing with all kinds of circus props and love it but I know there are so many small scale performers offering it and I just wasn’t sure how it would go down. However with a push from our fab instructors I decided we would do it. We have made a significant investment in equipment and have only chosen equipment that is up to the task and that performers we know would be happy using. Quality equipment isn’t cheap, but it is easier to use, learn with and hopefully will last (better for the environment).

Disc Golf

Disc golf is another activity we have been exploring for a while. It was the desire to have lots of active participants that pushed us to say yes. We’ve just collected this one and haven’t even unboxed it yet but have taken bookings for it. I think it’s going to be super fun and super popular. With many of our activities we have been perfecting the format for 9+years. With disc golf it’s completely new to us. I’m excited to see how it' will work best in practice. I’d really like to see some participant led course design in the session so we will see how it goes!

New Faces

I would also like to take the time to welcome Karen to the team. Karen is my mum and has had a long career in the NHS and care. She is joining to help out with admin, emails and booking forms. She is working for us part time alongside her other paid and voluntary role.

Karen

Many of our customers will have met Steve last year. Steve will be joining us on full time hours during June and July and will be at most events along side our regular flexible team, (Blind)John C, John T, John G and other not John’s including Matthew, Greg and Rob and Georgie.