Join the Adventure
The Adventure Pioneers is an organization, that first started in 2017 when a group of friends who all had experience working with young people in Scouting, the Princes Trust, the Duke of Edenborough Award, and experience based learning, etc. got together and talked about starting a youth group and in 2018 The Adventure Pioneers a none profit youth organization became a realization.
25th January 2019
Two of the Adventure Pioneers team have just returned from the Institute for Outdoor Learning annual conference held at YMCA Lakeside Cumbria. We were asked if we could provide a workshop for some of the members attending the conference under the heading How to make a comfortable camp (dens, fire, furniture and gadgets. with this in mined our base camp Playing with sticks in the woods.....help facilitate play and adventure and things we used to call childhood "playing out" as we used to call it. We had a brilliant time explaining the different aspects of simple camping from the very basics up-to something more comfortable but all working around playing out, including methods of camp cooking, improvised shelters, gadgets and how to make them.
The Adventure Pioneers have just been on Radio Lancashire for over an hour talking to Sally about our youth organization the Adventure Pioneers, and all the things we can do for schools, youth organizations and groups, including individuals and others. we had a great time remembering about the things Sally did at guides, and what a difference getting involved with out door active's makes in helping young people in later life, and what a good thing we were doing to help young people to achieve a better understanding of outdoor living, and how the importance of getting out and doing things is in the development of young people, and preparing them for later life,
We have just completed 4 bushcraft and survival days at St Johns school Poulton-le-Fylde teaching the importance of team work lessen one, two, building shelters etc. three, the importance of finding water and filtration and four, food, shelter and fire. all involved had a great time and they all had nothing but praise for what we had done. we are always available to introduce young people of all ages to outdoor learning, and the importance of team work and working together, all we want to do is make outside learning fun, or should we say playing out.
July
We have just completed two days instructing over 160 young people from St Marys Catholic Academy in an introduction to fire lighting and simple cooking on an open fire at Waddecar Scout camp site. Everyone had a great time and we received nothing but praise for what we had done.
July 2oth
We have finally started our new youth organization its called the Adventure Pioneers, all we need now is some funding to enable us to get things going. we have been busy the last few weeks organizing things to get us started a Facebook page Adventure Pioneers, this website, Leaflets etc. and a stand at Myerscough open day displaying some of the things we do and explaining to visitors what we can do for young people and other groups and schools.
On the 31st of August 2019 the Adventure Pioneers did a number of workshops including improvised shelter building, whistle and spoon making, camp cooking, pioneering, making and setting camp fires, for the group Love Her Wild.
Love Her Wiled are a group of ladies who do a number of different outdoor things each year, We had a great time with them and everyone enjoyed the day despite the weather. Love Her Wild have also booked us for next year.
Unfortunately At the start of the COVID outbreak We had to cancel all our planed activities and put everything on hold but this gave us the opportunity to rectify some thing we did wrong when registering Adventure Pioneers with Company House. We are now registered with them as a a Community Interest Company or CIC.
Adventure Pioneers (Northwest) CIC
A community interest company (CIC) is a type of company introduced by the United Kingdom government in 2005 under the Companies (Audit, Investigations and Community Enterprise) Act 2004, designed for social enterprises that want to use their profits and assets for the public good. A community interest company is a business with primarily social objectives whose surpluses are principally reinvested for that purpose in the business or the community, rather than being driven by the need to maximize profit for shareholders and owners. CICs tackle a wide range of social and environmental issues and operate in all parts of the economy. By using business solutions to achieve public good, it is believed that CICs have a distinct and valuable role to play in helping create a strong, sustainable and socially inclusive economy. Taken from Wikipedia.
Adventure Pioneers Northwest have recently considered adding archery to what we offer after Archery GB contacted Alan one of our founders asking would he like to renew his membership. Alan completed an Archery GB instructor’s course some time ago and was awarded what was then an instructor’s license card enabling him to instruct archery, having made a number of enquiries we can do archery under Alans instruction.
Having given this some thought we have decided it would be beneficial to a number of families and people who use our services and this would be a great opportunity to introduce archery to them on a purely introductory capacity, and perhaps if they found it interesting it would encourage them to take it up and join an archery club? We have already had a number of family’s showing an interest and we are awaiting to hear from an archery club who is considering donating some unwanted equipment to us, and we have also applied for a grant fingers crossed “you can live in hope.” In-between time if there is anyone out there who thinks they can help in any way then please contact us through our contact page or if you are interested in having a go at archery then do the same.
