Sponsored by
Outward Bound seeks 70 years' memories
An organisation with the unfashionable aim of making young people cold and tired has appealed to former clients for their fond memories. And they are already flooding in.
The Outward Bound movement will be 70 years old in 2011 and reckons it has tested the grit in a million people already.
Now, a few days after it was revealed that child fitness levels are plummeting, current chief executive of the Outward Bound Trust, Nick Barrett, has called for some of those million stories of "personal growth, adventure and fulfilment". The Trust has set up a web space at www.outward
boundgenerations.org.uk for the stories, and has already posted some.
The organisation was originally set up to train young seamen for survival and an old merchant seaman, Morris Jones, recalled being taken to the Savoy Hotel in London from the first Outward Bound centre, in Averdovey, Wales, in 1949..."Twelve of us were taken to meet the Duke of Edinburgh as well as other celebrities. Many guests came over to talk to us, offering gin and tonics, whisky and cigarettes, which were strictly off limits. Luckily, the officers turned a blind eye."
The organisation was started in 1941 by Kurt Hahn, an eccentric German philanthropist who fled the Nazi regime and founded Gordonstoun School, and an officer seconded from the Blue Funnel Line, Lawrence Holt.
The Duke of Edinburgh, a former Gordonstoun pupil, became chairman and is now its patron.
Email to a friend
Print this page- Three-inch blanket of snow heading our way today
- Alan Shearer in list of favourites for Leeds and England jobs: Latest odds
- Barnsley’s Keith Hill invokes Fawlty Towers over link with Leeds job
- McCormack feels United search can be narrowed down
- Redfearn throws down gauntlet as queue builds at Elland Road
Looking for...
Featured advertisers
Jobs
Search for a job
Motors
Search for a car
Property
Search for a house
Weather for Yorkshire
Friday 10 February 2012
Today
Cloudy
Temperature: -8 C to 1 C
Wind Speed: 17 mph
Wind direction: South east
Tomorrow
Sunny spells
Temperature: -2 C to 1 C
Wind Speed: 7 mph
Wind direction: South
