While all Venture Out Programmes are delivered in the great outdoors involving and harnessing aspects of nature, adventure, risk, challenge, and sometimes a little stress. Listening, supporting and coaching participants through each session lies at the heart of what we are actually doing! Its important that we are non-judgmental, that we are not overly directive, and that we allow the participant to lead on the change they want to action. These are not easy skills to acquire and develop, but they ensure any change or challenge participants take on are intrinsically driven, which in turn maintains and sustains self motivation into the future.

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Venture Out are currently wrapping up the online coaching and mentoring support sessions with all participants from last years programmes. We are delighted with the number of young adults that we have supported to progress into education, training and employment as a result of their participation.

If you are currently out of full time education, training and employment and between 18-30ys of age, please get in touch to learn more about the project.

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Following our training with Cara last week, we are delighted to adopt their charter promoting inclusion across all aspects of our organisations, along with the programmes and interventions we deliver. The training was a fantastic opportunity for us to reassess how we work and operate and allowed us evaluate how we engage and deliver programmes to young people with different types of disabilities. Check out their work at www.caracentre.ie

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We are delighted to announce that Venture Out have been successful in securing Leader Funding through our local development company Forum Connemara in recent weeks. These funds will now allow us purchase additional equipment, enabling us expand our services to engage more young people in need of our programmes and interventions.

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While we are unable to deliver our expedition programmes for a few more weeks yet, we continue to support individuals on a 1:1 basis through our Unearth service. If you are seeking alternative and safe ways to engage young adults or young people experiencing challenge or adversity, Venture Out might have an outdoor based intervention for value to address their needs. Check out details relating to our Unearth programme here.

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We were delighted to take part in an excellent training session with Cara yesterday, the national organisation providing a collaborative platform to enhance sport and physical activity opportunities for people with disabilities. This training will now help us greatly improve our practice when delivering our current programmes with groups such as the Galway Autism Partnership and Forum Connemara’s Ability programme. If you want to find out more information about Cara and their training or resources, you can look them up at www.caracentre.ie or click on the image here to get more information about Cara. We are now very much looking forward to adopting their charter and implementing changes which better support people with disabilities to engage and participate in our programmes in a more positive manner.

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You can check out our appearance on the Galway Volunteer Centre’s latest Podcast. Click on the image below to access the full recording. Thanks Donncha and the team for all your support and the invitation to speak with you.

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As today is our final session with Social Impact Ireland’s Incubator Programme, we’d like to thank the whole team for all their hard work and support over the past few months. Its been a great experience and has given us lots to focus on over the coming year. Today was the final pitch, giving us a great opportunity to present our enterprise to a number of influential and experienced organisations for feedback and guidance.

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Programme Brochure updated - learn about the programmes and interventions we deliver

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To support and finance the delivery of Core programmes for young people and young adults from disadvantaged and marginalised communities, Venture Out offer a range of social, challenging, adventurous and fun outdoor experiences for corporate groups and organisations seeking to try something new.

To learn more about our experiences and what they entail, check out our corporate brochure through the link on our website here, and get in touch for further information. In 2021, we are seeking to work with a small number of corporate groups, offering a heavily discounted rate to help us with our Kick Start feasibility study. Get in touch for further information.

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Venture Out are proud to say we fully adopt the principles of fundraising issued by the Charities Regulator in Ireland. As a charity, we are always seeking support to help us achieve our mission and vision. If you would like to support our work, please get in touch to learn how you can help. You can learn more about the principles ands our donor charter on our webpage under fundraising. Thanks for all your support!

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We have now started recruitment for a number of our extended wilderness based personal development programmes to take place throughout 2021. Over the coming months we expect to be working with a large number of young adults struggling with range of challenges including long term unemployment, drug and alcohol use, and involvement with the criminal justice system.

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