We have six UK residential centres all located in areas of outstanding natural beauty.
Lake District
Snowdonia
The Highlands
I was at Aberdovey Outward Bound in August 1957 - Beresford watch. Others in the group were Jeff Wilkinson, Fos Hedley, Pat Simmons, Ron Price etc. Our leader…
I attended the first course of the year in particularly bad winter conditions. I met up with a couple of other Police Cadets. I enjoyed meeting up with others…
OUTWARD BOUND IN JUNEAround 1985, when I was in my mid-forties (I can't remember the exact year), I signed up for a long weekend with Outward Bound Wales at…
I found this recently in some old papers. Hope it is readable! It is a programme of a concert put on by the staff at Aberdovey in June1954, about the time the…
As a young Police Cadet in Northampton I was sent on course E206 at Outward Bound Mountain School Eskdale from 12 October 1970 to 6 November 1970. I know this…
In April 1950 I was in my first job after leaving school in the Laboratory of Blochairn Steel Works in Glasgow which was part of Colvilles Steel Works, when I…
My favourite moment was in 1963 being offered a job as a temporary instructor at the Ullswater Outward Bound . School. My toughest challenge was becoming…
I left boarding school in winter 1959 and my father gave me the choice of the Outward Bound mountain or sea school. As I had some knowledge of the Lake…
Memories of an Outward Bound CourseIn 1973 I was a Cadet in Surrey Police Force, who sent me on a course at Rhowniar. On my return I wrote a description of the…
Here are some old Photos of Shackleton Watch and Full School for that year 1972 (ish) Sept / Oct I…
I´ll never forget the summer of ´99 in Loch Eil.Even 10 years after, I still feed upon those memories and the great experience it was to be out there in the…
I read Geoff Morris's story of his memories of the Moray Sea school. I realised that I was one of the school boys that was on that particular April course in…
