teaching personal development through the wilderness experience. Students are taught through a range of outdoor activities which promotes team building, survival techniques in a wild environment and the development of outdoor skills.
More than one million young people have passed through The Outward Bound Trust since the first centre was established in Aberdovey, Mid Wales in 1941. To mark its 70th anniversary next year, the chief executive, Nick Barrett, is launching a campaign for former students to share their experiences, to tell a "million stories of personal growth, adventure and fulfillment".
The trust was founded by the educationalist Kurt Hahn and shipping-line owner Lawrence Holt during the Second World War to help young seamen cope with the trauma of shipwreck. The first senior warden was Capt JF "Freddy" Fuller, a veteran of two torpedo attacks and 35 days aboard a life-raft in the Atlantic.
Outward Bound grew out of Hahn's work in the development of the Gordonstoun school and what is now known as the Duke of Edinburgh award scheme. Outward Bound's founding mission was to give young seamen the ability to survive harsh conditions at sea by teaching confidence, tenacity, perseverance and to build experience of harsh conditions.The name Outward Bound derives from a nautical expression that refers to the moment a ship leaves the pier. This is signified by Outward Bound's use of the nautical flag, the Blue Peter(a white rectangle inside a blue rectangle)
In The Independent today,Jonathan Brown offers a personal account of a weekend of activities with children from an inner city school in Manchester, based at the organisation's Ullswater school.
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