Author Steve Ranger

Students on our Level 3 BTEC course in Outdoor Adventure Activities are taking their NICAS awards at the moment - the National Indoor Climbing Award Scheme. This is just one part of their land-based activity...

The first Gold DofE of 2021 started this morning in Sussex with a cold but bright morning - ideal for walking. This year we have some expeditions in Sussex as well as our normal Peak District and Lake District...

TrekCo have completed all of our work on Covid related matters, and we are Good To Go according to Visit England. We have measures in place to ensure the safety of clients and staff, and these will vary...

The DofE have come up with a set of rule changes which allows for considerable flexibility with expeditions for this year - see: https://www.dofe.org/dofewithadifference/achievement-for-all These changes...

This year we're running DofE expeditions for the whole autumn season in order to catch up with those expeditions which couldn't take place in the summer. Expeditions will be completely flexible, so if any new...

  1st December The second lockdown will end tomorrow, and we are able to run day trips and activity sessions. We have a good number of day trips booked for the winter months including...

OFSTED, as you may know, are looking at Character Education in schools and as we have seen many times in the past, outdoor experiences are perfect for developing character and resilience in young people. In...

From September 2019 OFSTED has changed its way of looking at schools, with greater emphasis on a more holistic view of education. A few points from the Government website give us a flavour of the new...

In November we ran our fifth staff trip to Utah and Arizona, mountain biking in the world capital of biking, Moab. Five of us from TrekCo and our mountain bike park next door, Deers Leap Bikes, flew out to...

This year TrekCo have organised Gold DofE expeditions for schools, as well as Open Gold expeditions in the Peak District...

For the last couple of years the 'latest thing' in locating yourself, especially if you want to give a really accurate position to the emergency...

We've had great fun on this year's Peak District residential courses so far, with students taking part in climbing, abseiling,...

Our regular courses for GCSE PE Rock Climbing cover all of the specifications for each exam board and are run mainly in the winter ...

  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...