Adventure Breaks

In 2000 the late Bill Hook, a founder member of the organisation, managed to obtain some funding to send several groups of our teenagers on short caravan breaks during the school holidays. These were so successful that the young people have been talking and planning since to have further such ‘Short Term’ Adventure Breaks.

These breaks have been running successfully and still run to this day. Whilst there are still some caravan breaks, there are also breaks in lodges, hotels and other centres all over Scotland and some of Northern England. We run four large adventure breaks per year, usually around some of the term time holiday weekends. We also run mini-breaks for a smaller group by request.

Parents, over the years, have been overwhelmed by the success of the breaks. The young people enjoy it as it can be different from “formal respite” as they are away with not just their peers but their friends from the club that they know well. If they are away with some young people that they don’t know too well, they still feel happy and safe because they know the staff that are with them. It also gives our families; our parents and carers time to themselves knowing that their children are being looked after by people that they trust. That gives them as much of a break as the young people going away.

Funding has been available, over the years from Shared Care Scotland and St James’ Place Foundation and it has been a vital support to families. There is more information about costs for budgets within our personalisation page located here