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Why the Adventure Journey?

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The Award programme provides the opportunity to engage in an Adventure Journey.  It’s a chance to increase knowledge, understanding and awareness of the environment and nature; a chance to have some fun together while doing this. The Adventure Journey aims to take you outside your comfort zone but within a safe and secure setting achieved through suitable preparation and supervision. The adventure must involve self-reliant journeying in the countryside or on water, conceived with a purpose and undertaken by the participants own physical efforts.

Through this section young people have the opportunity to:
  • Plan and execute a task
  • Demonstrate enterprise and imagination
  • Work as a member of a team
  • Respond to a challenge
  • Develop self-reliance
  • Develop leadership skills
  • Recognise the needs and strengths of others
  • Make decisions and accept the consequences
  • Reflect on personal performance
  • Enjoy and appreciate the outdoors

Format:
 
The participants are required to select a suitable venture which:
  • Is sufficiently testing for them at their present stage of development
  • Requires appropriate planning and training involving practice journeys and skilled training where necessary
  • Is within the guidelines of the standards set out below

Standards: 

In all cases the expedition must involve:
  • Being away from home
  • Staying in a self-catering hostel, camping or in accommodation approved by the Award
  • Cooking at least one substantial meal per day
  • Bringing all required gear on the journey
  • The days on the venture are consecutive and must involve a journey going from point A to B to C etc.
  • Spending the entire specified period of time exclusively on the expedition
  • Maintaining a detailed logbook of the expedition including the planning

Minimum Requirements for an Expedition:

Bronze Award - Two days and one night
  • Walking distance: A minimum of 25 - 35 km
  • Cycling distance: A minimum of 100 - 130 km
  • Canoeing distance: A minimum of 20 km (12.5 miles)
  • All the above over two consecutive days

Silver Award
 - Three days and two nights
  • Walking distance: A minimum of 50 – 79 km
  • Cycling distance: A minimum of 190 – 220 km
  • Canoeing distance: A minimum of 40 km (25 miles)
  • All the above over three consecutive days

Gold Award - Four days and three nights
  • Walking distance: A minimum of 80 – 110 km
  • Cycling distance: A minimum of 300 – 350 km
  • Canoeing distance: A minimum of 60 km (37 miles)
  • All the above over four consecutive days

Adventure Journey Safety:
To help you with your group's adventure journey, we've put together a quick checklist that should keep everyone safe:

Gaisce Adventure Journey Checklist:
  • Parental Consent for each participant under the age of 18
  • Buildings and transport have been checked for Safety
  • Adequate Insurance has been acquired for the trip
  • Sleeping arrangements are adequate for males and females
  • Sleeping arrangements are adequate for over 18’s
  • There is one Leader per 8 participants, minimum of 2 per trip
  • If there is a mixed group there should be a minimum of one female leader and one male leader
  • Medical requirements of participants established
  • First aid kit
  • PALs and Participants have agreed a code of conduct re: Social Media and Mobile phones
  • Appropriate footwear and raingear is being used by participants
  • Emergency Contact Numbers of participant’s parents/guardians must be available to leaders
  • A route map of your planned journey must be left with someone back home
  • If your adventure journey involves undertaking an activity that requires specialist resource or training, this needs to be in place before completing your journey


Gaisce Participant Consent Form
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Gaisce Adventure Journey Policy
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