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YET
Member Organisations
Other
Youth Organisations
Associations
and Training Organisations
Other
Useful Organisations
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| YET Member
Organisations |
Appleby College - Ontario, Canada
Appleby College is a co-educational day and boarding school in Oakville, Ontario. With students from over 25 countries, it integrates rigorous academics with a diverse range of arts, athletics and community service programs. As part of it's service program, Appleby runs numerous local projects, and over 15 of it's own overseas long-term service projects. A member of Round Square, it is now putting it's projects through YET Evaluation and aligning it's operations to BS8848. |
Adventure
Lifesigns
Providing bespoke 1-4 week overseas expeditions, UK team-building
programmes and a number of training courses. |
Adventure
Works
Adventureworks organises educational expeditions and courses for
schools and groups of young people. We also support schools in
the provision of their Duke of Edinburgh's Award programme. |
Army
Cadet Force [ACF]
One of the UK's oldest, largest and most successful youth organisations. |
Brathay
Exploration Group [BEG]
A Registered Charity (Reg.No. 1061156) which has been running
expeditions, training courses and other events around the world
and in the U.K. for over 50 years. |
BSES
Expeditions
Youth development charity that organises challenging scientific
expeditions to remote, wild environments. We aim to develop the
confidence, teamwork, leadership and spirit of adventure and exploration
of all expedition members. |
Bull
Expeditions
UK based expedition
company specialising in polar expeditions for youth groups and
adults. |
Derbyshire
Youth Exploration Group
Giving young adults in Derbyshire the opportunity for personal
growth and development through exploration. |
Dorset
Expeditionary Society
A registered charity founded to encourage safe and adventurous
opportunities for young people. |
Duke
of Edinburgh's Award
Committed to providing for young people an enjoyable, challenging
and rewarding programme of personal development, which is of the
highest quality and the widest reach. |
English Outdoor Council (EOC)
Umbrella body for those involved in outdoor education, training and recreation. |
Expedition Providers Association (EPA)
The Expedition Providers’ Association (EPA) was established by companies within the youth expedition industry to develop good practice and share information. Formally a sub-committee of the YET, EPA is now the appointed awarding body for the Quality Badge for the expedition sector on behalf of the Council for Learning Outside the Classroom. In order to qualify, companies and organisations will be independently assessed against a rigorous set of standards that will help inform potential clients as to what should be expected from a provider. EPA has developed a scheme of certification which will be accredited by Adventure Activity Associates. |
Far
Frontiers Expeditions Limited
We organise expeditions to destinations around the world for schools,
Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) members and small groups. |
Fieldskills
Fieldskills is a specialist expedition services company helping
to plan and run, safe, enjoyable and successful expeditions. We
provide a combination of advice, training and logistical support. |
Fulcrum
Challenge
Fulcrum is a personal development charity which offers its programme
to selected AS-Levels, A-Levels, Scottish Highers and GNVQ students. |
Mobex
Network
a national training programme which was originally set up by YET
to provide expeditions and adventurous activities to young people
in disadvantaged areas. |
Outposts
Limited
Outposts Ltd specialises in outdoor pursuits. These encompass
adventure activity programmes and overseas expeditions for school
and youth groups, corporate team building and development and
tailor-made holidays to Africa. |
Outward
Bound Trust
The Outward Bound Trust is an educational charity that inspires
young people to fulfill their potential through challenging outdoor
experiences, raising self-esteem and preparing them to face the
future with confidence. |
Raleigh
Youth and education charity that inspires people from all walks of life, nationalities and ages to get out there and rise to the challenges of life on expedition. Expeditions run in Borneo, Costa Rica & Nicaragua and India and are a challenging, but extremely rewarding combination of sustainable community, environmental and adventure projects. |
Round Square
Round Square is an international educational charity made up of 70 member schools across the globe. Students attending these schools make a strong commitment beyond academic excellence, to personal development and responsibility and follow a set of "Ideals" inspired by the work of Kurt Hahn. This goal is achieved by participating in community service, work projects, exchange programmes and adventuring, which can, and often does, take students half way round the world. |
Sabre
Charitable Trust
A development education charity working at grass-roots level with
rural communities in Ghana. Long-term school partnerships, project
expeditions and volunteer placements aid the continual improvement
of basic education provision. |
Scout
Association
The Scout Association provides adventurous activities and personal
development opportunities for 400,000 young people aged 6-25.
Internationally, Scouting has over 28 million young people enjoying
the benefits of Scouting across 218 countries. Personal development
means promoting the physical, intellectual, social and spiritual
well-being of the individual, helping them achieve their full
potential. Scouting believes that young people develop most when
they are 'learning by doing,' when they are given responsibility,
work in teams, take acceptable risks and think for themselves |
The Specialist Travel Consultancy
The Specialist Travel Consultancy is an independent niche travel agency. We specialise in adventure travel, educational tours and personal development expeditions for schools, colleges and scout groups. We also put together imaginative tailor-made journeys, safaris, polar cruises, treks and adventure holidays for individuals and families with a wandering spirit. |
Ventureco
Worldwide
Offering multi-phase travel programmes incorporating development
projects, expeditions and adventure travel in Asia, Africa and
Central and South America. |
West
Lancashire Scouts
Supporting scouting in West Lancashire. |
Wilderness
Expertise
Wilderness Expertise (WE) is a UK based specialist personal development
company working with young people across the social, ethnic and
cultural spectrum both in the UK and overseas. |
Wind,
Sand and Stars
T aking people to the desert, from businessmen to the homeless,
from doctors to geologists, from schoolchildren to pensioners,
from church groups to those seeking the holiday of a lifetime.
Trips combine camel safaris, pilgrimages to historical religious
sites, mountain treks, charity projects, school journeys and much
more. |
World
Challenge
World Challenge offers an unrivalled range of programmes geared
to the education of young people. Students and teachers benefit
from a level of safety and service second to none, while the activities
and amazing destinations guarantee an extraordinary adventure. |
Yorkshire
Schools Exploring Society
Expeditions are open to young people in full time education in
the Yorkshire region, including Humberside and parts of Cleveland. |
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| Other Youth
Organisations |
Air
Training Corps [ATC]
Air Cadets aged 13 to 18 are given the chance to learn aerobatics,
learn skills to lead expeditions, tour foreign countries, become
target shooting marksman, join a band and learn about aviation
and aerospace. |
Borders
Exploration Group
Borders Exploration Group is best known for its International
Expeditions and aims to organise an overseas expedition every
two years. |
Commonwealth
Youth Exchange
Promoting and supporting youth development through two-way exchange
visits. |
Endeavour
Training
ENDEAVOUR provides programmes of personal and social life skills
development to help young people engage with education, training
or employment and to reach their full potential. |
Guides
Association
Girlguiding UK enables girls and young women to develop their
potential and to make a difference to the world. |
Year
Out Group
Find out how to plan your Year Out and choose the gap year or
career break programme which best suits your needs and aspirations.
We advise on what steps to take to ensure that you make the right
choice of programme with the right organisation. |
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| First Aid
Training Providers |
Active
First Aid Training
Active First Aid Training delivers professional high quality first
aid courses designed to suit the specific needs of individuals
and groups. |
Adventure
First Aid
Mobile training organisation based in the South West of England
delivering courses throughout the country. |
Expedition
Care Program
ECP teaches HSE approved modular basic
- advanced medical techniques for use in remote, overseas environments.
Our courses are recognised by UK NGB's. |
Expedition
Medicine
Expedition Medicine is the leading provider of wilderness medicine
courses, both here in the UK and also in a number of carefully
selected overseas locations. |
High
Peak First Aid Training
Providers of first aid and medical skills courses for the urban,
remote and hostile environments |
Mediact
First Aid Training
Mediact First Aid run REC First Aid training courses and AED defibrillator
training in the UK and Europe. |
Training
Expertise Ltd.
We deliver pre-hospital care training for outdoor and wilderness
environments. |
Muir-Walker
Medics Co-Op
We deliver Health and Safety Executive approved courses as well
as a range of sessions from first aid in the outdoors to evening
classes on CPR. |
Wilderness
Medical Training
WMT teaches advanced medical skills for use in remote, foreign
environments that exceeds First Aid training. |
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| Associations
and Training Organisations |
Adventure
Activities Licensing Authority [AALA]
Government sponsored scheme, introduced in 1996 under the Adventure
Activities Licensing Regulations. The scheme ensures that those
who provide certain adventure activities to young people under
the age of 18 years will have their safety management systems
inspected. Where appropriate, a licence is then issued. |
Alpine
Club of Great Britain
The world's first mountaineering club is Britain's only national
club for Alpinists. We aim to be the club of choice for all mountaineers,
providing a forum for sharing experiences and information. |
Association
of Mountain Instructors
Representative body for professionally qualified Mountaineering
Instructors in the British Isles. AMI is committed to promoting
good practice in all mountaineering instruction. |
Bremex
Trust
Providing mountaineering, hillwalking, rock climbing and expedition
training to teachers and youth group leaders. Weekend courses
have been designed to accommodate the schedule of the academic
year. |
British
Association of International Mountain Leaders [BAIML]
The British Association of International Mountain Leaders (BAIML)
is the professional body which represents the increasing number
of British International Mountain Leaders (IMLs). |
British
Association of Mountain Guides [BMG]
An autonomous body developing and enhancing the training, skills
and reputation of skilled mountaineers who wish to qualify as
guides. |
British
Canoe Union [BCU]
Set up in 1936 to send a team to the Berlin Olympics, the BCU
is the lead body for canoeing and kayaking in the UK. |
British
Caving Association
Governing body for Underground Exploration in the UK. |
| British
Mountaineering Council [BMC]
Working for climbers,
hill walkers and mountaineers in England and Wales.
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| British
Orienteering Federation [BOF]
National Governing
Body for the sport of orienteering in the UK.
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British
Sub-Aqua Club [BSAC]
Governing body for underwater activities in the UK, BSAC provides
a training programme for divers and instructors and safety advice
tailored to safe enjoyment of the diving. |
| Canoe
Association of Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland's
biggest canoeing organisation.
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Central
Council for Physical Recreation [CCPR]
The CCPR is the representative body for National Sports Organisations. In the Autumn of 2010 it will become known as the Sport and Recreation Alliance. |
Field
Studies Council Overseas
We provide informative and enjoyable opportunities for people
of all ages and abilities to discover, explore, be inspired by,
and understand the natural environment. |
| Glenmore
Lodge Scotland's National Outdoor Training Centre. Our
goal is to inspire adventure by teaching beginners, coaching intermediate/advanced
and delivering training and assessment courses for leaders and
instructors. |
Independent
Schools Adventure Activities Association [ISAAA]
Helping to foster the value of adventure activities/outdoor pursuits
amongst our students by bringing together groups of teachers in
Independent Schools involved in providing adventure activities. |
Institute
for Outdoor Learning [IOL]
E ncouraging outdoor learning by developing quality, safety and
opportunity to experience outdoor activity provision and by supporting
and enhancing the good practice of those who work in the outdoors. |
Mountain
Leader Training UK [MLTUK]
MLTUK is the co-ordinating body for all mountain training schemes
in the UK, overseeing the training and assessment of around six
thousand leaders, instructors and guides. |
National
Association of Field Studies Officers [NAFSO]
The National Association of Field Studies Officers (NAFSO) is
the only organisation in the UK which represents professionals
employed in teaching, developing and promoting field studies. |
Ramblers
Association
Britain's biggest walking charity which promotes walking and improving
conditions for everyone who walks in England, Scotland and Wales. |
Sports
Leaders UK
This network of organisations work in partnership to recognise
the learning and accredit the achievements that young people gain
through their involvement in various qualifications and award
programmes. |
Union
Internationale des Associations d'Alpinisme [UIAA]
Today the UIAA is the recognised International Federation and
the acknowledged expert on all international climbing and mountaineering
matters. |
Youth
Hostels Association [YHA]
Budget accommodation
and adventure activities. |
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| Other Useful
Organisations |
| Department
for Children, Schools and Families [DfES] Government
Department committed to enabling all children and young people
to reach their full potential. |
Expedition
Base
Expedition Base provides online communication support to expeditions |
Foreign
and Commonwealth Office
The purpose of the FCO is to work for UK interests in a safe,
just and prosperous world. |
Geography
Outdoors (formerly the Expeditions Advisory Centre) at the
Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)
The centre supporting field research, exploration and outdoor
learning provides information, training and advice to anyone involved
in expeditions, field research or outdoor learning in the UK and
overseas. |
John
Muir Trust and Award
The John Muir Award is an environmental award scheme focused on
wild places.
It encourages awareness and responsibility for the natural environment,
in a spirit of fun, adventure and exploration. |
Learning Outside the Classroom
The Manifesto for Learning Outside the Classroom has created an online resource with the help of industry experts and outdoor professionals. The site aims to help people working with young people in the outdoors and contains many useful resources. |
Medical
Advisory Service for Travellers Abroad [MASTA]
MASTA provide professional Travel Health Advice directly to the
public through our popular online Health Brief and via our network
of UK Travel Clinics. |
| Meteorological
Office
Essential forecasts for everyone, every day. |
Mount
Everest Foundation
Founded after the successful ascent of Everest in 1953, initially
financed from surplus funds and royalties, the Mount Everest Foundation
exists to encourage and support 'exploration of the mountain regions
of the earth'. |
Outdoor
Education Advisers' Panel
The OEAP site is an information site for those who advise Local
Authorities on learning outside the classroom. |
Paul Hamlyn Foundation
The Paul Hamlyn Foundation is an independent grant making body that fund organisations whose charitable activities help people to realise their potential and have a better quality of life. |
Plas
Y Brenin
The National Mountain Centre offering courses, expeditions and
holidays. |
| Safety
Awareness Training - Gap Year
ULTIMATE GAP YEAR
is one of the UK's leading providers of travel safety training
for gap year students and independent travellers.
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Scientific
Exploration Society
As a non-profit making organisation we initiate a worldwide programme
of scientific expeditions focusing on scientific, conservation,
education and community aid projects. |
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