Member Profile We are pleased to welcome Weardale Adventure Centre, a residential multi-activity centre, as a new member to AIM. Weardale Adventure Centre is an 80 bedded residential centre based in the North Pennines offering high-quality, outdoor and adventure education activities. They were founded in 1978 and ever since has been an integral part of […]
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Andrew Gardiner reflects on another successful year for AIM This autumn marks ten years since the publication of AIM’s first Newsletter announcing the formation of the company and inviting applications for Associate Membership. Back then our aim was to transform the picture for the outdoor sector whilst trying to source liability cover, and influence the replacement […]
AIM Member Profile Established in 1999 on the site of a former RAF base in Plymouth, the Mount Batten Watersports and Activities Centre is one of the foremost Outdoor Education centres in the South West. It opens all year round to provide a wide range of watersports and land-based adventure activities for individuals, groups and […]
Charles Darwin has been spinning in his grave for too long, unsettled by the gratuitous misinterpretation of his magnum opus on evolution, writes Paul Renfro of Pembrokeshire Outdoor Charter Group ‘Survival of the Fittest!’ business leaders chanted as they ran around with a belief that bigger is always better, and that having something that your […]
Andy Robinson, CEO of the Institute for Outdoor Learning, examines the changing map of the outdoor and activities industry. With statements about the need for increased participation in sport and physical departments (see the latest consultation on a new sports strategy from the Department for Culture, Media & Sport as a good example) it seems […]
Meet the Team While most of our readers will have dealt with members of our team on the telephone, many of you will not have met face to face. Have you ever wondered who we are and what we do? We sent our intrepid reporter to interview AIM underwriter, Brad Mott, for an insider view. […]
The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award (DofE) is the world’s leading achievement award for young people. Its ethos is to enable every young person of every background to take part and succeed, regardless of any barriers. Many of our Members will be familiar with the programme, in which young people aged between 14 and 24 progress […]
AIM assists new watersports centre in Glasgow Pinkston Watersports, a £3.25 million Watersports centre was officially completed and handed over to Scottish Canals and charitable body Glasgow Watersports. Located in Pinkston Basin on the Forth & Clyde Canal, Pinkston Watersports is Scotland’s first and only competition-standard, purpose-built paddlesports venue. Featuring customisable white water and canoe slalom […]
