JoyofAdventure was aims to inspire young people and their teachers to go on adventures. Our aim is that your expedition with us will begin a life time of journeys all over the world either by foot, canoe or bike!
JoyofAdventure is delighted to be able to offer open canoe expeditions with protacols in place to ensure socail distancing
JoyofAdventure is set up to support local schools to run their DofE expeditions or for young people to join expeditions where their schools dont offer them.
JoyofAdventure believes in the benefits to young people of learning in the outdoors and is passionate about equipping and training teachers and students so that they are able to competently and safely work in the outdoors, particularly through the DofE award scheme.
JoyofAdventure works with highly qualified staff. All staff are experienced outdoor professionals with a wealth of experience of working both with young people and adults in the outdoors.
JoyofAdventure is an Approved Activity Provider (AAP) of the DofE Award and has a Health and Safety Executive (HSE) Adventure Activity Licence (AAL).We also have the Visit England Covid 19 ‘Good to Go’ kite mark.
JoyofAdventure includes the First Aid Centre Applied First Aid which is an accredited Immediate Temporary Care (ITC) Centre offering a number of accredited First Aid Certificates which are Ofqual regulated and meet the meet HSE standards for due diligence for First Aid providers. All certificates are valid for 3 years.
Talk to us about what you want to achieve. Contact dofe@joyofadventure.co.uk
Working with young people in the outdoors provides them with lots of benefits including:
Organisations we have worked with recently include:
- Cambridge Academic Partnership
- Hills Road Sixth form
- Impington Village College
- University of Cambridge Faculty of Education
- Bottisham Village College
- Netherhall School, Cambridge
- Comberton Village College
- Kesgrave High School Suffolk
- County Upper Bury St Edmunds
- St Benedicts Catholic School Bury St Edmunds
- Royal Grammar School Worcestershire
- The Leys School, Cambridge
- Outlook Expeditions
- Expeditions Wales
- Bedford High School
- Arete Outdoor Centre
Open Gold DofE Canoe Expeditions
We are delighted to be able to offer socially distanced Open Canoe Expeditions in the Summer of 2020.
Open Gold Training and Practice Expedition2020 :
Friday July 10th to Sunday July 13th
Saturday July 11th to Monday July 14th
Friday July 17th to Sunday July 19th
Saturday July 18th to Monday July 20th
Open Gold Assessed Expedition 2020:
Tuesday July 21st to Friday July 24th
Wednesday July 22nd to Saturday July 25th
Monday August 24th to Thursday July 27th
Tuesday August 25th to Friday August 28th
Open Silver Training and Practice Expedition 2020 :
Wednesday 2nd September to Friday 4th September
Thursday 3rd September to Saturday 5th September
Open Silver Assessed Expeditions 2020
Tuesday July 28th to Thursday July 30th
Wednesday July 29th to Friday 31st
Saturday August 29th to Monday 31st
Sunday August 30th to Monday September 1st
Open Gold DofE Canoe training ( land based)
17th and 18th October 2020 Lode CB25 9HF
Open Gold Canoe training and Practice Expedition
27th to 29th March 2021 Little Ouse River and Wissy from Hockwold
8th to 10th April 2021 River Severn from Monford Bridge
Open Gold Assessed Expedition
2nd to 6th May 2021 UK River
June 29th to July 3rd 2021 UK River ( Hills Road Sixth Expedition option)
End of August 2021 Overseas Gold Canoe Assesssed expedition location to be decided but the group.
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Contact dofe@joyofadventure.co.uk for future dates.
Loved it! How did you do it? First aid was fun!!