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HUNTER
Outdoor Training
Team HUNTER
This is a trial site for Hunter Outdoor Training, posting project outcomes, photos of innovations, and evidence of successful work of our dozen or so Associates. This website does not replace the official Hunter site at www.hunteroutdoortraining.com but is designed to complement it - being more fluid, and fast moving; that is text and photos will change more frequently than the static site to reflect the continuing variety of instructing undertaken, courses run, and national and international initiatives we work on. Think of the site more akin to a magazine than a traditional website. If it 'works' it will last, if not I'll change the form and function.
Hunter's been around in various forms since 1988, orginally as a team to staff schools' visits and expeditions, but morphing under the leadership of Barry Howard into a nationally respected provider of ground-breaking innovative outdoor education projects, and now 20 years on, having instructed close on 15,000 youth across the UK and at its outdoor training facility at The Asheldham Centre, we are based in Leigh on Sea in the UK, having cornered the market in key areas of outdoor education provision and training for adults. We having absolutely nothing to prove and trade on our reputation, governed by Hunter's Values; these are located on our main website, but set the highest standards in all we do. We don't advertise. We do market. The national awards Barry Howard has won for contributions to outdoor education speak for themselves. All we would say is that if you want to see what we do, request a Taster Course for an hour or two.
1250 metres up on the summit of Jorronätten in Norway's Telemark region in winter
2008 has been an outstandingly successful year for Hunter Outdoor Training; we have worked with 58 clients covering 37 weeks of courses, continuing to develop a national Centre of Excellence in Outdoor Education for primary school pupils, and undertaking to add Expedition Immediate (First Aid) Care officially as part of Hunter from October; further we have undertaken to create, and instruct a series of very successful Paediatric First Aid courses for Southend Borough Council. Barry Howard is the School Sport Co-ordinator for Basildon responsible for Outdoor & Adventurous Activities, but also this year has started training teachers; this may well include an expansion into the South Woodham School Sport Partnership.
For 2009 Canada, SW Iceland, and western Sweden all beckon, the former working with a Centre about 100 kms north of Montreal. The Icelandic link - which goes back to 1977 - continues with a checking out of routes in the Krísuvik area for adult and youth expeditions. Sweden keeps calling us back to take advantage of the vast and deep forests of Värmland. Again, if you want to join us, just get in touch.