We have six UK residential centres all located in areas of outstanding natural beauty.
Lake District
Snowdonia
The Highlands
In 1956 I was a 3rd year apprentice at Leyland Motors Ltd. in Lancashire, when our Apprentices Superintendent offered me the opportunity to be the very first…
I wrote this story recently, when I realised the wonderful effect that my 4-weeks at Eskdale had had on my subsequent life. I, along with colleague Tony Hart,…
I attended course September 1974 I was in Raleigh house I was sent on course as part of a punishment from magistrate court how wrong could they be it was…
I was sent to Eskdale E323 by my employer as a precursor to possible management training. I was quite impressed as they agreed to pay my salary of £50 per…
On a recent UK holiday I was driving around the Ullswater shoreline when my wife suddenly said, "Was that the Outward Bound School you said you were at years…
OUTWARD BOUND SEA SCHOOLABERDOVEY, Course No. 88OCTOBER 1949Dear Sir,As you have probably noticed I am resident in Australia and have been now for forty-two…
The Outward Bound classic course, I have to say was probably the best 3 weeks of my life. I met the greatest people, had the greatest time and had the hardest…
I was a member of Mallory Patrol on Course U76 during the winter of 1963. Traditionally the day started with a quick dip in Lake Ullswater - this winter the…
A chance encounter in 1957 with Peter West who had just returned from the one month course then run by the Outward Bound School, Ullswater led to me sitting in…
As I was too young at the time to attend Warsash School of Navigation, they asked me to do a month at an Outward Bound School.I arrived at Aberdovey school on…
I was sent on the Outward Bound course by the City of London Police at which time I was a Police Cadet. Upon reaching eighteen years of age, it was the “usual…
To day I consider my time on an Army Outward Bound School as one if not the most challenging of my life and for toughness I consider the course was as hard as…