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CeCe Balfour 100 Women in Cycling 2024 - Community Spotlight
Nominated for her remarkable resilience and dedication to making cycling accessible for everyone. Find out more about CeCe’s cycling
Looking back at 2024!
Over the last month we’ve been celebrating our incredible community members, and some of their wins from the last year. In this post we’re sharing a recap and some of our own wins.
‘Soar: a girls’ paragliding roadtrip’ premiers at Kendal Mountain Festival - Community Spotlight!
Glide Gals UK - A women's Paragliding community have recently had their first film premiered at Kendal Mountain Festival! We caught up with founder Rhian to find out more.
Black Girls Do Run UK Award Winners! - Community Spotlight
In October, Black Girls Do Run UK won England Athletics’ ‘Community Project of the Year’ Award, again!
Black Tri Tribe turned two in 2024! - Community Spotlight!
We caught up with the Black Tri Tribe Team to hear more about what they’ve achieved and learned over the last year.
Allie Mason Collaborates with The Elemental Challenge - Community Spotlight!
Allie Mason teamed up with Elemental Challenge to create ‘The Autistic Adventurer’s Support Guide To The Elemental Challenge’!
We caught up with Allie to learn more about the project.
Fences and Frontiers - 2024, A Year of Events, Community and Change! - Community Spotlight
We caught up with founder and CEO Lewis Garland to learn more about what Fences and Frontiers have been up to this year!
Cross Sector Collaborations – Insights from The Outdoor Connection 2024
It seems like everyone is talking about working ‘cross sector’ these days, but what does that really mean? We delve into what cross sector collaboration is, the benefits you can get from it and the pitfalls to avoid.
Book Recommendations From The ATE Community!
Whether you're looking for a book to dive into over the holidays or need a last minute gift here are 17 books that our community think you'll love!
Financial Planning and Budgeting: Four Quick Tips
Financial planning and budgeting can be one of the trickiest aspects of running community groups and events in the outdoors sector. If you’re new to managing budgets, here are four tips to help you get started, taken from a live event at The Outdoor Connection 2024…
Alinah Azadeh Turns Personal Questions into Collaborative Creative Projects
Alinah Azadeh describes herself as an artist, a writer, a wanderer, a cultural activist, a mother and a human being. ATE team member Sarah Groves sat down with Alinah to chat about We Hear You Now, the unforeseen challenges and benefits of the project, and to ask for some tips for our community members who want to collaborate with public bodies like National Parks…
Ideas for Building Nature Connectedness - Insights From The Outdoor Connection
Supporting people to feel connected to nature is important for many of the communities in our network, but what does ‘Nature Connectedness’ really mean, and how do we integrate it?
Queer Ecologies – Insights from Timber Festival 2024
How can we take part in ecology and biology in a way that addresses the toxicity of colonialism, normativity and patriarchy in the subject? Jasmine Qureshi speaks to us from the All The Elements stage at the Timber festival 2024…
Diverse Voices at KMF 2024
It’s almost time for Kendal Mountain Festival! We’ve put together a short guide to some of the diverse voices and sessions featuring our community leaders!
Neurodiversity and Adventure - Insights from Timber Festival 2024
What is the relationship between neurodiversity and adventure? Allie Mason shares some insights from a panel discussion on neurodiversity in the outdoors from All The Elements at Timber Festival 2024.
New Funding Announced Through YHA Outdoor Citizens.
YHA (England & Wales) have secured two pots of funding to support the work of Outdoor Citizens members. These funding pots are now open for application.
Looking back on my first year as a Director with All The Elements.
I officially became Communications Director with All The Elements in July 2023, and what a journey it has been since then!
Save The Date - The Outdoor Connection 2025
We’re delighted to share that we will be gathering again for The Outdoor Connection 2025 - Save the date and register your interest now.
Scaling up to Sustainable - Insights from The Outdoor Connection 2024
The evolution of a community group from grassroots meetup group, to start-up, to mature, sustainable organisation is hard to navigate. In this series of articles, we’re sharing key takeaways from some of the sessions at The Outdoor Connection 2024....
Alternative Outdoor Careers: Emma Harrison mixes Mountain Leader, Life Coach and Disability Advocate
Stereotypical outdoor career paths do not suit everyone – so there are individuals like Emma Harrison forging their own paths, adapting jobs and creating alternative ways of working outdoors. We find out more about the Mountain Leader, Life Coach and Disability Advocate.