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Win Prizes with AD and Berkshire Canoes

To celebrate the festive seasons AD and Berkshire Canoes have some prizes. To win please comment in 20 words or less ‘Whats the best thing about doing adventurous activities?’The winner in the under 16 gets Sweet T shirt, Nookie mat, Noseclips, 2 DVD, Pyranhna Sponge, Wet shoes and stickers.

Daytime sessions

The daytime programme has worked with 155 groups between April and July of this year.

The days are tailored to the needs of each of the individual groups. This has included courses of developmental work. Highlights of the programme have included long term project involving young people from Brookfields school, castle get active, Newton House and the

Summer Activities

Summer holidays at Adventure Dolphin are jam packed with a whole range of activities to choose from. We have something for everyone, from day tasters to week long courses and even mini expeditions and camping weeks.

Come and join us for a Taste of Adventure day at the start or the end of the summer holidays (we also run these days over half terms). These days are a great chance to try some of the activities on offer. Click here to find out more.During

Quality Assurance

The next stage in our accreditation process is to gain ‘Adventure Mark’, this is a Kite Mark for schools approval for learning outside the classroom. I have received a report from Kevin D who visited all the club sessions in late February early March. He was pleased at what he saw and some sessions were excellent – so congratulations to all involved – we are moving in the right direction. He did highlight some things

Keep collecting Sainsbury and Tesco Vouchers

Brilliant news, we’ve managed to collect over 1 500 Sainsburys Active Kids Vouchers and 700 Tesco Vouchers. This is a fantastic start and we are really close to being able to get some exciting kit and equipment for our groups and clubs to use.

If you shop at either Sainsburys or Tescos remember to ask to recieve your vouchers; one for every£10 spent in store and in petrol stations or 1 voucher for every £5 spent in Express/ Local shops. Why not ask your friends

Help us Collect Sainsburys Active Kids Vouchers

Great news! Adventure Dolphin is able to collect vouchers for the Active Kids scheme run by Sainsburys.

This isafantastic chance for us to be able to getsome kit and equipment to help our youth clubs, paddling clubs and DofE sessions do more exciting things for more of you.

Some of the things that we are collecting vouchers for includes

Adventure Dolphin has a new wall map

Adventure dolphin has just put up a massive wall map. This covers most of West Berkshire and surrounding points of interest. It spans from Hungerford on one side and Henley on the other side. It goes as high as Abingdon and as low as Tadley. The new wall map will help groups of DofE, School groups, Mountain Bikers, Pangbourne Plods, Leisure Walkers, Paddlers on the Thames or Kennet and Avon Canal, Geocaching, Orienteeringand much more. The map

Annual Staff Meeting / Training Day @ Pangbourne

Sunday 30th January 9-4.30pm

This year our guest speaker is Margaret Goldie the Director of Children and Young People for West Berkshire, who has asked to come and share with us what is happening both for the Council, Youth Service and ourselves, so I hope you will be able to attend as this will affect

Opening the New building

Official Opening Ceremony

Dolphin Centre Report, 29 September 2010

A Day to remember……The culmination of the six year project to rebuild the Centre was coming to an end with the official opening to be performed by Earl of Wessex KG KCVO . The Earl is a trustee of the charitable arm of Duke of Edinburgh’s Award and was keen to see the work we do at the Centre to support the Charity and the

Adventure Dolphin feature on Country File

Adventure Dolphin was featured on the latest edition of BBC Countryfile, in the show presenter Matt Baker journeys along the River Thames on the Oxfordshire/Berkshire border, learning about the people who live, work and play on Britain’s most historic river.