Equip UK
As owners of the Rab and Lowe Alpine brands, Equip Outdoor Technologies UK pride themselves on designing exceptional products that meet the needs of their active customers. Their passion for the outdoors and adventurous spirit sets the foundation for what they do. And they encourage their teams to thrive and be part of their success.
Like Outward Bound, they share a passion for encouraging more young people to experience the power, freedom, mental and physical benefits of the great outdoors, so we're delighted to have them as partners. Together we take young people on a journey of learning and adventure in the wild to help them realise just what they are capable of achieving in life.
Introducing young people to the outdoors
Equip UK recently supported a course for 24 young people from a local school near their HQ in Derbyshire.
The young people raised their aspirations by taking on various outdoor challenges in The Ogwen Valley, Snowdonia, including gorge walking, climbing, and cooking their dinner in the wilderness. These activities taught them many new skills which will help them in school and later life, such as communication, resilience, self-belief and working with new people.
It was such a rewarding and eye-opening week which has left me inspired to do more to help and facilitate opportunities for young people; it’s so significant what just one week in the Ogwen valley can do! To see the transformational powers of the outdoors on a group of kids was amazing.”
Equip Ambassador, Anna Proffitt
Karen Jewell, Director of HR and Organisational Development at Equip UK comments: “We’re proud to celebrate five years of partnership with The Outward Bound Trust, through our shared passion we’re enabling more young people to experience the power, freedom, mental, and physical benefits of the great outdoors.
Our partnership makes a huge impact on the lives of these young people in our local community who may not usually have access to these unique learning opportunities, which are so important for their development.”
Martin Davidson, CEO at Outward Bound concludes: “We are hugely grateful for the support of Equip UK in our mission to inspire young people with resilience, teamwork, and problem-solving skills in the wild. This shared belief in the next generation and the power of learning through adventure strengthens what we do and enables us to reach even more young people. I cannot stress how much this means to us and the hundreds of participants who’ve benefited, especially in the context of a growing mental health crisis and rising absenteeism in schools across the UK.”
If you're an organisation who shares our passion and think you could support young people in the UK today, please get in touch.
"Our partnership makes a huge impact on the lives of these young people in our local community who may not usually have access to these unique learning opportunities, which are so important for their development.”
Karen Jewell, Equip UKFind out more about our partnership
Pre-pandemic, Amber and Philippa from Equip UK joined 59 Year 5 and Year 6 pupils from Harris Primary School in Preston, Lancashire for a week-long residential programme at Outward Bound Ullswater in the Lake District National Park.