What our Urban Adventure Teens think of our programmes
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Venture Out are Recruiting
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We’re almost set for our two upcoming expeditions taking place in the coming weeks.
Lots of planning goes into each trip, with participants playing a key role in preparing for the equipment, food and materials that they will need for each journey.
Each trip helps fine tune their decision making and problem solving skills and tests their ability to organise and plan out daily activities and challenges.
We’re looking forward to supporting all participants overcome the challenges they will inevitably face while out in the wild.
There is great learning in making mistakes, and of course we learn way more about ourselves when we venture out of the comfort zone!
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We are delighted to announce that Venture Out have been successful in securing funding through the Irish Youth Foundations Generation Pandemic Fund to deliver our new Two Wolves programme throughout the next school term.
This exciting outdoor based experiential programme has been designed to support young men explore issues of relevance to them while helping cultivate healthy masculinity within their school and community.
If you are a second level school in the Galway and greater Connaught region and would like to partner with us in delivering this programme with your male students, please get in touch.
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One of the most interesting parts of delivering our programmes at this time of the year is watching how much our natural surroundings change from one week to the next. The kids noticed the difference last week with one commenting that everything looked greener.
There are loads of lessons to be learned and teaching moments available to facilitators when delivering projects in nature. The fact that everything is constantly changing and never stays the same is a good lesson from young people to learn early on…….it can sometimes mean that bad times don’t always stay that way and they often improve with time, while good times don’t always last forever so its important to enjoy them while you are in the moment!
Photos taken below only four weeks apart!
‘Thanks to Galway City Council, Galway City LCDC for providing funding to the City North CFSN and to Applegreen and the Irish Youth Foundation for their support and funding for the Ballinfoile Youth Taster Project.’
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Venture Out are delighted to announce that we have secured funding to roll out our ‘Two Wolves’ schools programme across the Connaught region throughout the 2022/2023 school term. We are now inviting second level schools in the area to get in touch to book a day long workshop for their TY students.
This experiential outdoor based programme is designed to introduce teenage boys to a range of exciting nature based activities while engaging them in issue based discussions around the topics of healthy masculinity and positive wellbeing.
Each day long experience will provide space for the young men to explore issues relevant to them in a safe, open, fun, social and educational environment.
Please get in touch for more details.
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Our Month Of April in Numbers
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Over the past week we have worked with a number of groups of different ages, backgrounds and abilities, and while each session is taking place in the outdoors involving a wide range of different activities, the focus is always the same, the promotion of personal development, youth work and health and well-being.
Last week we started a new programme with Forum Connemara supporting young adults referred in through a range of disability services, we took our urban adventure project kayaking and we explored outdoor cooking techniques with our New Routes programme for young adults at risk or in recovery
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April 22nd is Earth Day, a day to celebrate all that’s amazing on our planet while also learning about ways we can make a positive difference.
Follow the link below for information about this initiative
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We are really looking forward to starting our Youth Urban Adventure After Schools project in Ballinfoile next week.
The aim of the project if to engage a group of teens in a range of healthy, social, educational and fun, outdoor adventure activities. We will meet the group for the next few months and look forward to exploring a range of green and blue spaces in the area.
‘Thanks to Galway City Council, Galway City LCDC, Applegreen Blossum Fund and Irish Youth Foundation for providing funding to the City North CFSN for the Ballinfoile Youth Taster Project.’
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We will be busy this week shooting a series of short films to promote the work we do, while also promoting how we do it. As a social enterprise not only do we offer programmes to promote the health and wellbeing of our clients, we also offer programmes to the open market for corporate and private individuals to avail of. We then re-invest all profits to deliver core programmes - meaning everyone wins!
Thanks to Arise funding we are now in a position to start filming some high quality content, showcasing the work we do. Watch this space for the latest releases!
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This time last year, While Covid was still restricting our activities with larger groups, we were proud to be able to continue delivering our 1:1 support service across Galway. Here we are taking a quick break on Galway bay between showers!
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