The Ulysses Trust’s Chairman, AVM Nick Kurth, and Ops Director, Sqn Ldr Kev O’Brien, attended the annual Air Training Corps Shackleton Trophy best expedition competition at the Royal Geographic Society on Friday 8th November 2019. Nick had the opportunity to address those attending, including thanking the RAF Charitable Trust for its assistance to the Charity. […]
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We are delighted to announce that James Cleverly has agreed to become a Vice Patron of The Ulysses Trust. James has been involved with the Trust for a number of years as the President of our fundraising group. As we are in the middle of an election, James is currently the Conservative Parliamentary Candidate for
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Exercise COCKNEY ENDURO 2 (CE2) was a Unit Mountain Biking Expedition conducted in the high-altitude splendour of the Haute Alpes in Southern France, on routes following the final section of the Grand Route Chemins du Soleil (‘Path of the Sun’) descending from the mountainous and remote Verdon National Park through to the Mediterranean Sea. National
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The Royal Naval Reserve (RNR) unit, HMS WILDFIRE, has been conducting sailing expeditions for the past 10 years during which 30 members of the Ship’s Company have benefitted from essential navigational, boat handling, seamanship, team building and leadership training. This training has become particularly pertinent given the confirmation that RNR members will play a greater
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34 cadets and 12 staff members from across the Combined Cadet Force (CCF) and Air Training Corps (ATC) had the venture of a life time when they were selected to attend the new style Exercise Venture Challenge in Cyprus. Exercise Venture Challenge is a 10 day Camp based out in Cyprus. The purpose of this
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Between the 31 Aug and 08 Sep 22 cadets and 8 staff from Sussex and Hants / Isle of Wight Wing undertook an expedition to the Italian Dolomites thanks to generous support from the Ulysses Trust and RAF Charitable Trust. The main thrust of the expedition was a four day trek linking a number of
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On Sunday the 12th of August 14 Riflemen from across 6 Rifles plus two external instructors flew from Heathrow Airport to deploy on Ex Kazbegi-Bugle, a summer mountaineering T3 AT Expedition to the Georgian Caucus. The aim of the expedition was to deliver the Summer Mountaineering Foundation qualification to the 11 novice personnel on the
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The Concept: In October 2018, the Regimental Administration Officer (RAO) for Northern Ireland Garrison Support Unit, Major J Swanson MBE, aspired to organise an Adventurous Training (AT) package to the Rocky Mountains, Alberta, Canada. His aim was to promote cohesion and develop the soldiers within the unit through level 3 AT training. For an expedition
The fourth and final Prince of Wales’s Expeditionary Award was presented in Oxford last night by HM Lord Lieutenant of Oxford Mr Tim Stevenson (pictured above left). The Prince of Wales’s Expeditionary Awards highlight the very best in leadership, challenge, courage and planning. The annual awards are selected from over one hundred Cadet and Reservist
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In early September 2019 eleven Officer Cadets and three members of staff from Northumbrian Universities Officers’ Training Corps (NUOTC) embarked on a twelve-day high risk and remote expedition to the High Atlas Mountain Region of Morocco, which would include the ascent of the highest mountain in North Africa, Mount Toubkal at 4167m above sea
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The third of four prestigious awards was presented by Lord-Lieutenant for Stirling and Falkirk – Mr Alan Simpson OBE yesterday. The Prince of Wales’s Expeditionary Awards highlight the very best in leadership, challenge, courage and planning. The annual awards are selected from over one hundred Cadet and Reservist expeditions supported by The Ulysses Trust, whose patron is HRH the
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The second of four prestigious awards was presented by HM Lord Lieutenant of East Sussex – Peter Field at a special event on Tuesday. The Prince of Wales’s Expeditionary Awards highlight the very best in leadership, challenge, courage and planning. The annual awards are selected from over one hundred Cadet and Reservist expeditions supported by
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This report will cover activities, locations, accommodation, safeguarding and logistics, it will be broken down into phases, to highlight, the experience had by all members of Warwickshire and West Midlands (SS) ACF Pre –Tour Preparation The preparation in the UK was extensive. Warwickshire and West Midlands (SS) ACF staff ran four pre weekends, which involved,
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Genghis (or Chinggis) Khan was a strong leader, powerful diplomat and seasoned traveller according to most Mongolians, who revere him. In the west and the Islamic world the view tends to focus on some of his more negative attributes. Focusing on the positives you soon realise that Genghis Khan had many of the skills required
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Introduction Northumbrian University Air Squadron recently embarked on Exercise Icelandic Traverse – a two week expedition in which students would cycle from the north coast to the south coast of Iceland.The expedition began with squadron members meeting at RAF Leeming on 26th August 2019. Here, mountain bikes were checked and prepared, kit was issued and
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It’s the late evening after a hot day in Southern France …And then, the question is asked, “shall we run this again?” A couple of nods later and, the next iteration of the Essex Wing Ardèche Expedition had begun with two years of preparation ahead for another fantastic journey down the Ardèche River had begun… One significant advantage
In August 2019, eleven Army Reservists from 156 Regiment RLC, a Reserve supply regiment based in Liverpool, conducted an arduous adventure training expedition through the Sierra Nevada mountains in California. Classified as a high risk and remote expedition by the Army’s Adventurous Training Group, this represented a real physical, mental and, in some-cases emotional challenge
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On Wednesday 18th September 2019, the advanced party for Exercise Barbarian Odyssey 3, a 159 Regt RLC diving expedition, arrived in Gibraltar during early afternoon following a 2½ Hour flight from London Heathrow. The advanced party were there to complete an initial recce and other key activities in preparation for the arrival of the main
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