Moreton Hall is a local independent girls boarding school. Although they are situated close by, I haven’t done much work with them in the past, so today was a fantastic opportunity. Obviously, we are in the middle of the school holidays, but have a number of things going on including language schools. I got to [...]

Today I had the great pleasure in spending the day with two great young people, looking at navigation and map work around the Long Mynd area of the Shropshire Hills. They actually live in London, but are up in Shropshire for a couple of weeks during the Summer holiday. While up this way, they’ve signed [...]

This morning I had the pleasure in putting on a kayaking birthday party for a group of 7 girls looking to have a go at something a bit different. After a few games on dry land, we got on the water and started to paddle without paddles (if that’s possible!) The idea was to get [...]

This morning I had the pleasure of spending some time with the staff from the Birmingham branch of the Pegasus Planning Group, based in Sutton Coldfield. Today was their chance to get out of the office and let their hair down with an ‘jolly’. When they originally contacted me, the plan was to spend the [...]

This evening I had a group from the Whittington and Oswestry Young Farmers Club for a couple of hours of archery. They’re usual routine is to meet up for a bit of an activity of one sort or another, before heading down to the pub for the rest of the evening. I certainly wouldn’t fancy [...]

Following on from Tuesday, when I took the Adventure + group canoeing on The Mere, we decided to go for a canoe journey on the canal. Last week’s group had gone on the River Severn, but the wind during this Tuesday’s session meant that we weren’t able to cover as much, so the canal seemed [...]

Ellesmere College is fortunate enough to have a wide variety of facilities, and one addition to this over recent years has been to indoor archery range. By fitting specially designed netting behind the targets and over any windows, they have been able to create a range inside an old sports hall. This morning, we decided to [...]

This morning I met the kid’s from the Adventure + programme at The Mere in Ellesmere, ready to go canoeing. Having got there early, I was able to get all the canoes and kit ready before they arrived so that we could crack straight on with things. After a few silly warm up games, designed [...]

This is the second week of Ellesmere College’s Adventure + holiday club, and with a different group of children signed up, this week’s programme looks rather similar to last week’s. The morning was spent playing various games with the aim of helping the kids to get to know each other. After a slightly early lunch, we [...]

I’ve spent most of this week working on Ellesmere College’s Adventure + holiday activities club. On Tuesday, we had a blast in the canoes on The Mere in Ellesmere itself to have some fun and learn some basic skills. Today we decided to put some of those skills to the test by spending the day [...]