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Head Counselor

Posted Monday, 18 November 2013

Head Counselor ISSOS St Andrews and Cambridge ISSOS offers high school students (aged 13-18) from all over the world the unique opportunity to combine learning, creative enrichment and action-packed adventure in the historic and picturesque university towns of St Andrews and Cambridge. Every summer we welcome students from over 60...

Natural England Camping Exemption Certificate for DofE

Posted Wednesday, 6 November 2013

The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award has recently been granted a 5 year Camping Exemption Certificate for England by Natural England. The Camping Exemption Certificate (due to expire on the 16th October 2018) allows recreational organisation to camp on land without a site licence or the need to apply for planning...

The Law: Using Third Parties to Deliver Outdoor Adventure Education in your School

Posted Wednesday, 6 November 2013

With responsibility for developing all sports and with funding linked to achieving higher levels of participation, your school may have considered using a third party to help deliver outdoor programmes within your school. As more and more sports engage such Partners this article will look at (1) why such arrangements...

How To Pack A Rucksack

Posted Wednesday, 6 November 2013

This may be old hat to most, but it is good to have someone else's point of view. Criticisms and suggested improvements on these ideas are welcomed. It's amazing how many people seem to just stuff their kit randomly into a pack, but correct packing can make your day both...

Trackers: Big Brother or Big Country?

Posted Wednesday, 6 November 2013

Over the last few years I have experimented and researched the use of trackers for training and supervising young people on D of E expeditions. I started off with SMS trackers which rely on a mobile phone signal and moved on to satellite trackers using the sat phone network. Do...

I Ran Faster Because of My "Sports Gene"

Posted Wednesday, 6 November 2013

Back when Eero Mäntyranta was the greatest endurance athlete in the world, there was nothing remarkable about his physical appearance. Sure, in pictures I had collected of him from the 1960s, his slightly tan skin seemed more like something born of the Mediterranean coast than Arctic Finland's pine forest, but...