We have so many fun ideas and activities up our sleeves that we never run the same week twice, so every Superweek, school week or activity day we run is completely unique. But to give you an idea of what you might get up to with us, do take a read [...]
The chief executive of the National Trust, Dame Fiona Reynolds, gave an interview to the Times this week (March 2012) regarding what she suggests is a nationwide ‘anxiety’ that is causing children to miss out on play and nature. "Children are missing out on the sheer joy and physical [...]
Our easy guide to raising money for ATE's Adventure Appeal with Easyfundraising For those of you that don’t know, Easyfundraising is essentially a platform for charitable organisations to receive donations to their causes for FREE. Like most good things it gives away a lot of information in the name, [...]
Millions of British children are "culture starved" as they have never been to an art gallery, theatre or museum, a study has claimed this week (Feb 2012) on BBC news. The research, commissioned by Visit Birmingham, found four in 10 children had never been to an art gallery, while [...]
Why volunteer as a young adult? James shares some thoughts about what you might gain from volunteering, and what skills you might you be able to take from ATE specifically to help you make your decision: I don’t really like being the bearers of bad news, in fact I think it’s pretty miserable, but [...]
This post was originally published in 2012 This is Liam H. Liam is one of our Monitors and is here to prove that boy types can have just as much fun on a Superweek as the girls! Due to the nature of the work that we do, we tend [...]
Cailtin was just 8 years old when I put her on a train and waved goodbye. The journey from London Paddington to Worcester lay ahead of her. She was with people she and I had met just 20 minutes earlier. She could barely see out of the window of the [...]
We think we are fairly unique organisation. We are professional game-players and fun-havers, and take this role incredibly seriously. We are not a big-headed organisation, but we do know that we deliver something of extremely high quality, and it’s delivered by people who care, a lot, and who share an [...]
Following the lead of our very good friends at the National Trust, we've created our own list of 50 things to do. You'll find all of these and more on your Superweek this summer, and we reckon it’s really, really important that you do at least 30 of these things [...]
How exciting, I find that I am finally entering the 'blogosphere'. A bit chilly, but I think I might take to it. One of the problems that everyone who is, or has been, involved with ATE Superweeks (or Colony Holidays before them) has is the extreme difficulty one finds [...]