Our CSR Manager Ian McLaughlin reviews a recent CSR project that Across the Divide planned for the insurance and reinsurance underwriting group Amlin.
People learn best through experience
Amlin wanted to add a new element to their existing training provision. They were looking for a creative and thought provoking programme which would consolidate and build upon previous training and allow participants to put skills into practice on a real project. As well as fulfilling a learning and development need, Amlin wanted to move their CSR activities towards a more hands on approach.
They chose to work with Newlands Bishop Farm Solihull, a charity project that support adults with learning difficulties. To support the commercial development of the charity the participants installed an irrigation system for the allotment area, built a shelter for the farm workers and fitted out a farm shop enabling the charity to sell the home grown produce. The project allowed participants genuine opportunities to practice management skills and behaviours in a real setting and to receive constructive feedback.
March 9th, 2010 | CSR, CSR Projects, Corporate Event Solutions, Corporate Experience, Corporate Social Responsibilty, Corporate in the community, Social Enterprise, corporate experiences |
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Chandler Chicco, recently named named Healthcare Agency of the Decade by The Holmes Report, joined forces with Across the Divide to provide manpower to Sayers Croft which is a beautiful, safe and secure site with 56 acres of woodlands, meadows, ponds and fields and has been providing quality outdoor experiences for young people for over 70 years in Surrey.
‘It really was an amazing experience… thank you for last Thursday’
‘A thoroughly enjoyable and fulfilling day’
‘It was a really great day – lots of fun and great to offer our skills to help out the wider community’
March 9th, 2010 | CSR, CSR Projects, Corporate, Corporate Event Solutions, Corporate Experience, Corporate Social Responsibilty, Corporate in the community, Social Enterprise, corporate experiences |
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After 6 weeks on the Amazon BBC presentor Helen Skelton crossed the 2010 mile finish line yesterday morning while broadcasting live on BBC news.
It was extremely exciting and more than a little emotional. Over the last 40 days she’s paddled for 366 hours, done over a million strokes, had around 50 metres of tape on her hands, eaten about 525 mints, had 2 injections, broken 2 world records, had about 150 mosquito bites, dropped 3 pairs of expensive sunglasses in the river and not capsized once.
After all this she still found the energy for a celebratory knees up last night! There’s still not been time for a rest today as there have been media interviews ongoing since 6am. Despite this the whole team is on a big high. The four boys have been really fantastic to work with and it has been the greatest of pleasures to spend the last 6 weeks with the modest, fun, strong, resilient, down to earth, inspirational Cumbrian legend that is Helen Skelton. I hope we can go for a pint next time she’s back in Cumbria.
March 2nd, 2010 | Adventure Travel, Challenge, Charity Challenge, Charity Challenges, Charity Events, Endurance, fundraising |
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Darren Roberts, winner of the 2009 Namibia 24 hour Ultra Marathon has made this great video of the race. Check it out.
126km – 3 marathons – in 24 hours. This is the 3rd successful year of the Namibia 24 hour Ultra Marathon, which is rapidly becoming known as the ultimate endurance test for distance runners.
Still time to enter….
March 1st, 2010 | Adventure Racing, Adventure Travel, Challenge, Charity Challenge, Charity Challenges, Charity Events, Endurance, Marathon, Runner, Running, adventure race, cancer run, charity run, charity trek, fundraising, fundraising marathon, ultra marathon, wilderness running |
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Blue Peter presenter Helen Skelton has completed a 2,000-mile kayak trip along the Amazon for Sport Relief.
ATD medic Dr Lucy Dickinson poses with the BBC Blue Peter Amazon Team
The 26-year-old was greeted by cheers and celebratory gunfire as she crossed the finish line in Almerim, Brazil. Helen clocked up 2,010 miles since she set off on her solo journey from Natua in Peru on 20 January.
Our very own Dr Lucy Dickinson has the pleasure of accompanying the whole Blue Peter expedition to the Amazon but rumours have it is she is more excited about the prospect of gaining an exlusive Blue Peter badge than exploring one of the world’s greatest natural wonders!!
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March 1st, 2010 | Adventure Travel, Challenge, Charity Challenge, Charity Challenges, Charity Events, Endurance, Just for Fun, Team, Team Building, trek for charity |
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Iceland Laugavegur Ultra Marathon
July 2009 saw our second Across the Divide group line up on the start line at 0900 wondering exactly what they had let themselves in for. The small group of 7 runners had a mixture of experienced Ultra runners and those completely new to the sport, and represented the UK, Canada and the States. The previous day we held an event briefing covering a detailed course description, and a thorough medical brief which helped prepare our runners to run a good race. Thankfully the weather was kind to us compared to last year and it was a nice temperature at the start with no uncontrollable shivering before the race organisers sent us off running up the first steep section. The field was twice the size as last year with many more local runners taking part creating a great atmosphere at the start line.
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February 23rd, 2010 | Adventure Racing, Adventure Travel, Charity Events, Iceland, Just Events, Just for Fun, Laugavegur, Marathon, Runner, Running, Thorsmork, adventure race, cancer run, charity run, fundraising, fundraising marathon, ultra marathon, wilderness running |
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As you know we pride ourselves on our safety record and attention to detail. Every ATD event has an experienced UK Medic and Expedition Leader which is something that very few operators can offer
So we thought you’d like to read a recent press release we sent out about a seriously ill trekker on Kilimanjaro who luckily stumbled upon an ATD group.
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February 16th, 2010 | Challenge, Charity Challenge, Charity Challenges, Charity Events, Corporate, Corporate Event Solutions, Corporate Experience, Team, Team Building, Trek, charity trek, kilimanjaro, trek for charity |
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Across the Divide needed to find a shoe that we could recommend to participants taking part in our series of Ultra Marathons. These races take part in some extreme and inhospitable environments and so I have given the PT-03 shoe a real battering over the last 6 months to see if they can live up to their claim of being built to survive.
The first major test for them was the 55km Laugavegur Ultra Marathon in Iceland. This punishing course took the shoes through multi terrain of sand, gravel, grass, volcanic mud, scree, snow, ice, rocky trails and glacial fed streams and rivers. At the end of the race I was really impressed with how well they performed and how comfortable they actually were.
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February 8th, 2010 | Adventure Racing, Adventure Travel, Challenge, Charity Challenge, Charity Challenges, Charity Events, Endurance, Iceland, Laugavegur, Marathon, Runner, Running, Thorsmork, adventure race, cancer run, charity run, fundraising marathon, wilderness running |
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ATD medic Dr Lucy Dickinson poses with the BBC Blue Peter Amazon Team
Helen Skelton, presenter on the BBC’s Blue Peter program, is aiming to be the first woman to kayak the Amazon and she is well on her way to see the most recent BBC report click here.
In 2009 Helen completed what is considered to be one of the toughest adventure races in the world – the Namib Ultra Marathon
February 1st, 2010 | Adventure Travel, Challenge, Endurance |
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UNICEF Haiti Earthquake CHILDREN’S Appeal
In yesterdays Across the Divide board meeting, we were all struck by the disaster in Haiti and as a company wanted to do something to help, albeit in a small way. Across the Divide is very pleased to be supporting UNICEF Children’s Appeal appeal by donating £300 the banner for which is at present featured on the front page of our website.
We are very close team here at the ATD and recently the daughter of one of our longstanding team members, a young girl whose light shone extremely brightly and who shared many ATD adventures and experiences, passed away as a result of a brain tumour – not less than a month ago she was swimming and playing as any normal young child and the fact that UNICEF’s appeal is directly related to helping children affected by the earthquake even more poignant to us.
You can of course choose via one of our ‘Just’ Challenges to raise all of your funds to support UNICEF’s work to allievate the suffering in Haiti.
January 20th, 2010 | Adventure Racing, Charity Challenge, Charity Challenges, Charity Events, adventure race, fundraising |
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