We have six UK residential centres all located in areas of outstanding natural beauty.
Lake District
Snowdonia
The Highlands
I am just sitting with my I pad browsing through OB alumni web pages when I came across a story posted by Ray Timms in April 2017 where he talks about the…
A most memorable moment...I attended an Outward Bound course at the tender age of 17 in Aberdovey in March 1957 and although many parts of the course were…
Abetdovey March 1973 and yes I still remember “plod and plunge” first thing in the morning My month in Wales has remained with me all my life and even now I…
My Outward Bound adventure began well before getting off the train at Aberdovey! Actually, it began during my last year at a secondary modern school in…
Course 167.(Click on the link below to see more photos from John's time on the…
My name is John Barker and the photograph above is of myself and a group of lads that attended the Outward Bound School in Eskdale in the summer of 1951. We…
The month long course at outward bound Ullswater was and still is the most memorable time of my life. Our Warden was Squadron Leader Davies and our instructor…
I've been twice in O.B. Aberdovey, in 1976 and 1978.Great souvenirs, a land mark in life. I was a little savage, solitary.I learnt at this time to share…
I remember having to jump into the lake each morning off the jetty in November!!! If the lake was frozen we had to use the showers which were even colder. I…
Visit Ullswater from 4 March until 30 March 1963.I can see from my Outward Bound Personal Log Book, collected by the school bus, from Penrith train station, at…
I remember travelling from Nottingham to Devon and was in awe of the surrounding countryside. It was a bad winter and the moors were snowed in; in some places…
Caving capersAs a young apprentice, I left Paddington station, bound for Newton Abbott on the morning of 20th January 1970. Collected by coaches, we were told…
