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Black To The Trails is back! Key learnings from the last two years
Black To The Trails, the world's most ethnically diverse trail running event, is back for the 3rd time in 2025!
We caught up with Sabrina, Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Black Trail Runners to find out more about running Black To The Trails.
The Relationship Between Kit and Access to the UK Outdoors
Clothing can cause many barriers when trying to access the UK outdoors. We asked Steph Wetherell , the co-founder of Every Body Outdoors, to explain some of ways it can stop people getting outside, and explore some of the solutions that advocates and allies are discovering.
Embedding a successful Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Culture – Insights from The Outdoor Connection 2024
How do you embed a successful Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) culture in your community group or organisation? At The Outdoor Connection 2024, Aneela McKenna spoke on how to create and align systems, processes and values that will drive an inclusive culture for all…
Gender and Hiking: Creating Inclusive Outdoor Spaces
It’s one of the most talked about areas of diversity but how can we practically support more inclusion from a gender perspective within outdoors spaces? We asked Mountain Leader and outdoor instructor Harriet MacMillan to share how she runs gender inclusive outdoor sessions…
Breaking Down Barriers to Beekeeping
We asked beekeeper Rachel Sampara to give us the lowdown on beekeeping, how she got started and how she’s helping others to overcome the barriers to this traditional craft…
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…
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.
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....
Nature Connection and Collaboration – Insights from The Summit 2024
The Summit is a residential weekend providing outdoor community leaders who are focused on POC audiences the opportunity to gather. The first session of the 2024 event was a forest bathing walkshop, co-curated by Chantelle Lindsey, Isabella McDonell and Evie Muir. Evie tells us more…
Running Up for Air - Reflections on a Moving Evening
Peer-to-peer learning is one of the cornerstones of the All The Elements community, and when our Business Development and Partnerships Manager and co-founder of Black Trail Runners, Sabrina Pace-Humphreys, attended a recent event on air quality advocacy work, she wanted to share the effect this evening had on her.
Managing Wellbeing and Burnout - Insights from The Outdoor Connection 2024
One of the sessions in our The Outdoor Connection 2024 event was ‘Managing Wellbeing and Burnout’. This session addressed the particular stressors the All The Elements community might feel because of the nature of the work we do, before sharing ways to identify and lessen stress and burnout…
How to Tell Your Story With Authenticity - Insights from The Outdoor Connection 2024
In this new series of articles, we’re sharing key takeaways from some of the sessions at The Outdoor Connection 2024.
Top Tips For Volunteer Recruitment and Management
These tips were shared as part of the Resilient Communities Series, a collection of free online workshops created in partnership between All The Elements and YHA Outdoor Citizens.
2024 Awareness Days - Key dates for our community
In 2024 we want to make it even easier for you to find out what awareness days are happening across different diversity areas. This list pulls together some of the key awareness days, weeks and months.
Top tips for working with brands
Part of the Resilient Communities Series. A strong working relationship with outdoor brands can help to support and amplify your mission as a community group. We asked Sabrina Pace-Humphreys how…