Skills4Life

Participants significantly increased their resilience and psychological well-being, by 36% and 23% respectively on completion of the programme.

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‍The modules

Each day offers a new module that boosts social, emotional and problem-solving skills, which are then channeled into a final day of outdoor adventure.

Enterprise Challenge

Develop business-relevant skills and apply them to a project, working around marketing, product design, and budgeting based challenges before presenting final ideas.

Your Voice Matters

Participating in debate and dialogue around issues that matter to them and their local areas, allowing them the ability to adapt how they are perceived during public speaking as well as honing their abilities to listen and present ideas.

Food for Thought

Using a range of resilience-building bush craft skills, Food for Thought challenges young people to prepare and share a meal together. Each team will be given a budget and a selection of resources. Designed to challenge a broad range of skills, working together towards a valuable shared goal.

Epic Challenge - watch the video!

Taking place on the final full day of their adventure, the Epic Challenge sees the young people work in teams to compete against each other through various tasks to win points in their bid to become champions! A series of outdoor challenges are set out across the adventure centre, allowing the teams to bond and engage together as they tackle and harness the skills they have built throughout their trip.

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The results are in

An evaluation of the Winter 2002/2023 Skills4Life programme revealed the impact of the programme had significant positive impacts. This study was later published in the Institute for Outdoor Learning's Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning - read the full article online.

During the study, 622 diverse adolescents were accessed across three timepoints and the results showed real, lasting impacts.In addition to supercharging individuals' resilience and psychological wellbeing, participants reported increases in vital soft skills such as confidence, social intelligence, leadership, teamwork and communication.

Over 70% felt more able to cope with whatever life threw at them

Over 80% felt more confident about teamwork and communication

70% felt more confident about education or job prospects

80% felt more confident about meeting new people

Over 60% had more confidence in leading others

78% felt more positive about people from diverse backgrounds

75% felt more optimistic about their future

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‍Powered by Skills Builder

Skills Builder Partnership is a global movement of employers, educators, and impact organisations working together to ensure that one day, everyone builds the essential skills to succeed. Powered by 800 leading organisations across education and employment, the Framework has now been backed by the UK government in statutory guidance. The Partnership now has a touchpoint with 75% of UK secondary schools and colleges, as well as being adopted by a growing range of businesses.

The Skills4Life programme has been awarded a Level 3 Impact Award.

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Here's what previous Skills4Life participants said...

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