TrekCo Life

Sad news - our Admin Director Harriet is leaving us after 21 years. She is moving on to another post in the travel industry and we wish her the best, and thank her for all those years of service. Many of our...

  Harriet, our Admin Director, has been working for us for 21 years now! In fact it's so long ago that she started, it's our best guess. From being a shy and retiring young assistant instructor...

Autumn is a great season for school trips and activities at TrekCo - we're running school residential camps both indoors...

TrekCo staff get up to all sorts of things in their holidays - we've been in the French Alps doing via ferrata, canyoning, climbing, hiking and whitewater rafting; and running DofE expeditions in the Lake...

No school residential is as good as a camping trip! We've been busy putting up tents at Blackland Farm for upcoming...

  Free TrekCo Teacher Alps Trip Since 2012 TrekCo have run 4 free trips to the Alps, open to teachers - try whitewater rafting, canyoning, climbing and via ferrata for free! This trip isn't designed to...

Last autumn TrekCo staff went on several trips to aid staff development and their outdoor experience - most notably a trek to Everest...

2017 has been a great year at TrekCo; here are some pictures showing the range of activities from year group residential camps ...

Here at TrekCo we are always emphasising the need for training, and every year we take on a new group of keen young trainee instructors. This has been happening every year since 2004 and everyone comments how...

Plenty of planning, cleaning up and tent work - this is what the site looks like when a camp is being taken down! TrekCo staff work constantly for the success of your school residential and this is one of...

This weekend the trainees went to Snowdonia for training in lead climbing, scrambling and generally working in the wet! They learned more about setting up climbs on the Gribin Facet and went to World's End...

Des Barlow, our technical advisor for canoeing, recently paddled the Green River in Colorado on a multi day expedition. Des likes to do things the traditional way, so had this photo taken with his...

This week a small group of staff from TrekCo and Deers Leap Bikes are off on a mountain biking trip in Utah and Arizona. It's tough, but someone has to do it.... This is TrekCo's second staff trip to Utah and...

Now that the 2016 season is slowly drawing to a close, we thought it a good time to make a very small gallery from our annual 4-5,000 pictures just to sum up the year. From early school activity residentials...

Nothing stops Cardinal Newman students! Over the Bank Holiday weekend we took a group of Year 10 students to the Peak District. Waking on the first morning we had two inches of snow on our tents, and knew it...