The latest edition of our newsletter is out now. This edition features our 30th anniversary celebration event and features reports from reservist, officer cadet and cadet expeditions as follows: 30th Anniversary Celebration Event – A review of our celebration event at Cadogan Hall. Exercise report: Snowdonia – Outward Bound 2022 – Cadets from the Pioneer […]
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Our Chairman, Air Vice-Marshal Nick Kurth, attended an Aviation Focus Group (AFG) lunch at the RAF Club yesterday. Earlier in the year the AFG made a generous donation to The Ulysses Trust. One of the expeditions supported by this donation was an Air Cadet expedition (Ex: Big Lakes 2022) undertaken by 282 (East Ham) Squadron
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Our Chairman, Air Vice-Marshal Nick Kurth, attended the Royal Geographical Society’s (RGS) EXPLORE 2022 event on Saturday 5th November 2022. The event included a presentation by Cadet Sergeants Nicole Mosquera and Gauri Shaji from 282 (East Ham) ATC Squadron (pictured left) regarding their expedition to Costa Rica which was supported by The Ulysses Trust. Our
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In 2022 we introduced a Volunteer Recognition Scheme, to acknowledge the hard work undertaken by our team of volunteers to support the Trust. The charity is run mainly by volunteers with only a handful of paid staff, so it is important to recognise the vital support provided by our fantastic team. A series of badges
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The 2021 Prince of Wales’s Expeditionary Award was presented by ACM Sir Simon Bryant at The Ulysses Trust’s 30th Anniversary event at Cadogan Hall on Thursday 28 July. The event was a celebration of the Trust’s 30 years of grantmaking during which it has supported over 40,000 reservists, university cadets and cadets to take part
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The latest edition of our newsletter is out now. This edition celebrates our 30th anniversary and features reports from reservist, officer cadet and cadet expeditions as follows: How It All Began: DARC STAR 1992 – 30 Years ago a group of reservists set their sights on Everest. Our Vice Chairman Philip Neame was at the
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We were featured on BFBS radio recently to showcase our partnership with the Veterans’ Foundation. If you visit our website you can follow the links to listen to the interviews with Major General David Shaw CBE and Major John Stopford-Pickering.
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We are delighted to announce that our Chairman of Trustees, Air Vice-Marshal N J E Kurth has now raised £10,000 for The Ulysses Trust as a consequence of completing RideLondon 100 in 2018, 2019 and 2022. Nick said, “I am very grateful to all my sponsors and particular thanks go to several Vice Patrons who
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Our Chairman of Trustees, Air Vice-Marshal N J E Kurth completed the Ride London – Essex 100 on 29th May 2022 raising over £1,000 in sponsorship for the Trust. Nick has been in training since March and has been gradually building up the distances to get ready for the big event. Here’s his reaction to
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23May 2022 Some fantastic news from Mt Everest! We’ve been following Reservist Garth’s Miller’s journey to Everest and back. Here’s Garth’s latest post… “Thank you for following along on this adventure. On 20 May, for a few short minutes, I had the summit of Mount Everest to myself. 24 hrs later, I summited Lhotse (the
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Our Chairman of Trustees, Air Vice-Marshal N J E Kurth has got a smile on his face. After many weeks of early starts and cycling in sub-zero temperatures Nick has passed his target of £1,000 in sponsorship. Nick is raising money for The Ulysses Trust by cycling the Ride London – Essex 100 on 29th
Penal Company on the Falklands: A Memoir of the Parachute Regiment at War 1982 Our Vice Chairman, Phil Neame, has recently published his memoir about his time serving with the Parachute Regiment in the 1992 Falklands War . “One of the finest Falklands accounts, written by a man who was in the heart of the
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We are delighted to have two new recruits join our board of Trustees. Polly Marsh and Colonel Paul Edwards MBE have been volunteering for the Trust as members of our Grants Applications Committee in Spring 2021 and have recently accepted the invitation to join our Board of Trustees. Polly is passionate about young people being
14 May 2022 “I Leave Base Camp tonight. Plan below. Weather looks to turn unsettled from 20th so this is it!” 15 May: Camp 2 (6,400m) 16 May: Camp 3 (7,300m) 17 May: South Col leave for the summit at 10pm that night 18 May: Summit Everest (8,848.86 m) and back to Camp 4 19
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14 May 2022 Back at Base Camp following what for me was a tough 4 day acclimatisation rotation beyond Camp 2. Photo 1. The first ladder in the Icefall. As Pasang stepped off the other end it pinged off and disappeared from view, left hanging out of sight by a single rope. We hauled it
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09 May 2022 Time to move up. I leave Base Camp in a few hours, heading through the Khumbu Icefall to Camp 1 at 6000m. There the plan is to rest and hydrate for 24hrs before moving up the Western Cwm to Camp 2 at 6400m. I’ll spend two nights there, allowing time to explore
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09 May 2022 I’m setting off through the Khumbu Icefall at 0200 tonight. The plan is to stay at Camp 1 at just over 6000m in the Western Cwm tomorrow night before moving to Camp 2 at around 6400m for two nights after that. In that time I’ll spent a day climbing up the lower
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08 May 2022 A great day. Testing and prep’ing my oxygen set and climbing in the Khumbu Icefall with the legend Da Jangbu Sherpa (13 Everest summits). My previous experience of Everest was from the Tibetan side which has nothing like this! Perhaps the most famous and feared section of the climb from Nepal is
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