We are delighted to announce that our upcoming 5 day FOLM project is now fully booked. This week long outdoor based personal development programme has been developed to support young people between 18-30years of age into education, training and employment, and to help them progress in their lives by developing action plans for positive change. Following the outdoor learning element, we will be working closely with the individual participants through 6 months of online coaching and mentoring support.

This week long course promises to be full of activity, adventure, challenge, fun and learning, while also providing space in a range of amazing outdoor environments for each participants to reflect on their lives, developing strategies for change in a supportive group.

Unfortunately we were unable to accommodate all referrals, however we would encourage anyone else interested in signing up to get in touch as we might be in a position to run another programme with sufficient interest.

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While restrictions begin to open, we are delighted to be able to start working with groups again, providing much needed support to young people and families during this challenging period. In the mean time, we will continue to offer our Unearth 1:1 support intervention. Learn a little more about this services here….

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With youth unemployment figures at an all time high, new and creative ways of supporting young people are urgently required at this critical time. Venture Out currently offer a number of programmes to support and help young people during this challenging period. Many programmes promote employability skills and the value of education and training, while many also focus on the importance of protecting and reinforcing your health and well being during times of adversity.

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Check out all the activities happening to celebrate Earth Day 2021 at www.earthday.org

Venture Out are looking forward to getting back delivering our Green Action Youth Environmental Leadership Programme in the coming weeks to help promote sustainability, environmental protection and to combat the negative impact of climate change.

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• Are you currently out of full-time education, training or employment?

• Are you up for taking on a challenge in the outdoors?

• Are you interested in learning a little more about yourself and your potential?

If so, join Venture Out on this exciting 5-Day outdoor activity based personal development programme in the Galway city area in May 2021.

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Venture Out would like to thank the 3 students from Trinity College, Bastien, Ciara and Hannah, for all the time and hard work they invested into their recent project - the creation of an infograph to represent our Ember Wilderness Based personal development programme. This will hopefully help us communicate the impact our programme can have and the value of such interventions.

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We’d like to thank Leader and Forum Connemara for all their support over the past few months, helping us secure funding to finance the printing of our new Ember information Flier and our Programme Overview Brochure. We look forward to distributing these among our partners to help recruit participants and expand programme delivery. If you would like us to email the online version, please drop us a mail!

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Vision, Mission and Values review

While the past 12 months have been frustrating, delaying many of the programmes we had planned to deliver, we also used this time wisely to undertake a number of tasks, key to the professional governance and oversight of our organisation.

Over the past few months the entire Venture Out team have invested alot of time reviewing and rewording our vision, mission and values to ensure we all buy into the direction we are moving in.

While values remain a key discussion with participants during our personal development programmes in the field, we also recognise how important it is for an organisation like ourselves to identify and promote our own values. They drive all we do and shape the decisions we take. We like to call them our 'non-negotiables'!

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As we look to the future, we are very excited to be exploring European collaborative partnerships and opportunities. Thanks to Outward Bound Slovakia for their invite to join this professional network. We look forward to working with them and other partners on future projects, sharing best practice and resources for the benefit of the participants we support.

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Leave No Trace have Launched an accredited trainer initiative encouraging trainers to become members helping to support their work and promote best practice. Venture Out are delighted to support this initiative.

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