Frontiers - Adventures in Learning
Learning & development in the woods for teenagers & children
Frontiers is a charity which runs educational activities for teenagers and children.
Our core activity is New Horizons, an alternative curriculum for disadvantaged teenagers who are disengaged from education & failing at school.
We teach practical, meaningful skills which reengage them with learning & offer a more productive future.
For younger children we run Wild Days and Parties - taking kids into our beautiful beech woods to learn, to grow & to have fun. All profits from these activities help fund our alternative curriculum for disadvantaged teenagers.
What we offer
For disadvantaged teenagers
New Horizons - Our empowering, life-changing alternative curriculum for disadvantaged teenagers who are disengaged from education.
For children & families
Wild Days - An exciting range of educational days out in the woods for children of all ages, for less than the cost of childcare!
Parties - Fun events in the woods for up to 30 children, tailor-made for your needs. Let us give your children and their friends a fun day to remember.
For schools & youth organisations
School activities - Fun, educational activities for groups of children from primary & secondary schools, and other youth organisations
Seminars & workshops - Seminars and workshops which seek to promote a cultural change in youth organisations, to focus on learner engagement.
LATEST NEWS
Frontiers gains charitable status!
We are pleased to announce that we have formed a new charity. We will be dividing our operations so that our activities for disadvantaged young people (e.g. New Horizons) will be run by the new charity, while activities such as Wild Days and Parties will be run by the existing company. In the long term, this will enable us to work more cost effectively and improve the services we offer.
Summer Wild Days
BOOKING NOW
We've got some lovely Wild Days for the summer holidays, including 'Stalking Wolves' and 'Wild in the Woods'. Book now as these days usually sell out quickly.
Bulgaria expedition latest
The first group of students from our Alternative Curriculum travelled to Bulgaria on 12th June to work with orphans there. See more details of this project. They have been carrying out buiding work on a house near Plovdiv, which will be used as a base to teach orphans. Students built a kitchen, outdoor toilets and showers for the students and orphans to use.
Click here for a YouTube slideshow showing work so far. Click 'watch in high quality' if your connection is fast, & click button on bottom RHS of image to view full-screen.
Best Social Enterprise runner up
Frontiers was proud to be awarded runner up in the Best Existing Social Enterprise 2008 award, granted on 18th June by Social Enterprise Berkshire. This is a great acheivement and we are all very pleased!
The Ethos Project:
A free behaviour management course for teachers & youth workers
A new Continuing Professional Development project for teachers / youth workers will create sustainable change in schools by gaining knowledge and skills to develop breadth in the curriculum, holistic values, reflectivity in learning. See more details here.
BBC documentary features
the work of Frontiers
A two-part BBC South documentary - Inside Out - recently feature our work, in particular a recent visit by students on New Horizons - our alternative curriculum - to a Bulgarian orphanage.
