Outdoor Education

This year's French Alps trip was a great success - every year since 1991 TrekCo have run multi-activity trips in the southern part of the French Alps for sixth formers and other groups. This year's trip saw...

Last weekend saw TrekCo take 70 Year 10 students to the Peak District to take part in climbing, canoeing and loads of other activities. One of these was Caving, which we don't do a great deal of but ask our...

This weekend Riddlesdown Orion are having a successful trip in the Peak District. Starting with snow in the night hike on their arrival then hail whilst canoeing, at least it was sunny for...

The intrepid pupils of Arundel School didn't stop at activities - they even completed their night hike in blizzard...

The Government have withdrawn their advice for organising offsite visits for schools, known as HASPEV. They haven't replaced this, so the Outdoor Education Advisors Panel have published a new website, free to...

Some new documents from the Government that you should check out f you're organising school trips can be found at:...

TrekCo are well known for our teambuilding days - we invented the Sixth Form teambuilding style induction days for the outdoors, and have been the premier company in the UK running these for over 15 years now....

At TrekCo we hold the LOtC badge; just in case you're not too aware of it here's the latest, from their newsletter: 845 organisations have been accredited under the LOtC Quality Badge scheme to date. This...

If you need any more ammunition to help persuade people that learning outside the classroom can be useful; here's a recent article and video from the...

Many schools and colleges come to us in the autumn for a teambuilding day, often bringing their whole new sixth form intake at once. One consortium bring over 400 students every year! So why do they go through...

It may seem as if we're going on about risk, but the business of an outdoor company is to provide a considered, managed risk for young people - partly to help them develop and partly to give an experience of...

We've added a blog to TrekCo World so that you can keep up withthe latest developments and we can post our opinions and whatever we come across about the outdoors and outdoor education. Here's one for...