Cheryl Fleet celebrates the 50th anniversary of her Outward Bound course and recounts her epic adventure. Cheryl has lived a full and adventurous life but still credits her OB course as her greatest experience.
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Celebrating the inaugural Te Toki o Awa course
Outward Bound is extremely proud to have successfully delivered a pilot course in partnership with Te Ātiawa o Te Waka-a-Māui Trust - a 5-day culturally immersive experience named Te Toki o Awa.
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High ropes course upgrade
The Ankiwa high ropes course is now over 23 years old and is one of the oldest systems of its type still being used in New Zealand. Thanks to the generosity of some dedicated supporters, the ropes course is being upgraded in 2024.
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Celebrating 50 years of friendship
In November 2023, a special 50th-anniversary dinner was held in the Anakiwa Dining Hall. The guests of honour were students of Hillary 111 - the first group of women to attend an Outward Bound course, and the watch remains a tight-knit group to this day.
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Empowering Youth Through Regional Schools Courses
Our Schools Courses give power back to the community, helping to shape the next generation of leaders. Learn how you can get involved in our fully funded 21-day schools courses.
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Whakatipu Programme: A focus on work readiness for rangatahi
With over 60,000 students leaving school in Aotearoa each year, the transition from secondary education marks a pivotal life moment How can we teach them the skills needed for their journey to employment?
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Course Spotlight - Youth Horizons
Our Adapted courses are always a highlight in the calendar. Enabling New Zealanders with intellectual and physical disabilities to have a typical Outward Bound experience is just as inspiring and rewarding for our staff as it is for the students taking part and their whānau.
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Outward Bound Expanding to the Coromandel
Opening a second school is part of our commitment to making our courses as accessible to as many New Zealanders as possible. We're currently looking for a possible location on the western Coromandel Peninsula for our second school.
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Students Find Connection on our Southern Cross Course
Outward Bound's Southern Cross course is a 21-day program designed to connect and empower students of diversity or who are fostering diversity in their communities. We hear from our 2023 students to see how the found the course.
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Disconnecting to reconnect
An important part of an Outward Bound experience is being fully present and connecting with the people around you and the nature that surrounds you and to do that, we ask students to hand over their devices so they can live in the moment.
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Haslinda Abriham, Cook 395 (1997), a student from Singapore shares her story of catching up with fellow watchmate Julius aka twenty-two years on from their Outward Bound course. Read more
OB has been working hard to raise the funds needed for a new safety launch and thanks to generous gifts from our supporters we have raised $430,000 so far! Now we need a helping hand to reach our final target. Read more
Catherine Saganic shares her learnings from completing our 5-day Women in Leadership course. "The course was an experience that is so hard to articulate to people who haven’t been - it was completely life-changing.” Read more
Kia ora, I'm Dan and I’m 19. I want to share my story with you and thank the kind donors who made my journey to OB possible. Now, I am a young adult in control of my future. After years of feeling like ‘the poor kid’, I know the meaning of self-value and self-belief. Read more
What makes a great 70th birthday present? An Outward Bound course, of course! Read Bob's first hand account from when he first discovered he was going to OB, to when he completed his 8 days in Anakiwa. Read more
We recently opened the much anticipated Levene Lodge staff accommodation! Named after our patron Sir David Levene and blessed by Te Ātiawa, the lodge has been sustainably designed to house our instructors and have a light footprint. Read more
In October 1969, 14 young men met in Anakiwa and would become Hillary watch 71. Fifty years on, in November 2019, nine of the watch members got together in Picton for a weekend reunion. Read more
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