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Ensuring that 'Your Adventure is in Safe Hands'.

The strength of The Adventure Element Ltd is built on the professionalism, and dedication of our staff team. Each of them are passionate about passing on their knowledge and ensuring you receive the very best.

By taking part in one of our programmes you will be benefiting from the collected knowledge from a team who are at the forefront of learning in the outdoors.

It is the staff's role to ensure you are inspired to be safer, be better and to explore more.

Meet the faces that bring The Adventure Element magic to life.

Director & Owner

Ben Keen

Events Manager

Chris Forecast

DofE Manager

Alex Knill

Operations Coordinator

Marieke (Mieps) Chalmers

Programme Coordinators

Our Programme Coordinators take the responsibility of ensuring the smooth delivery of our outdoor programmes. Their role is to coordinate all delivery aspects including managing any Leaders working with the participants on our larger programmes. They will be a main point of call during a programme and available to answer any questions or solve any issues.

Leaders

Our expert team of Leaders deliver the learning to you and / or the other participants. Each member of this team are chosen based on their expert knowledge, their ability to coach, guide and instruct in all aspects of the outdoors as well as for their impeccable professionalism. They really are the face of The Adventure Element Ltd. 

Your Adventure in Safe Hands

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Posted 5th March
Breaking Down Barriers: Empowering Women to Participate in Adventure Triathlons

Breaking Down Barriers: Empowering Women to Participate in Adventure Triathlons

Category: Challenge Event Advice and Guidance

Looking at our Event stats over the years, we were pretty pleased to see the gender split has improved significantly from 30/70 in 2023 to 42/58 in 2024. However, we appreciate there is still more we can do to help break down barriers that may prevent women from attending our events and experiencing incredible adventures. We recognise that there is a huge amount of women out there itching to get on triathlons, hit the trails with their mates and experience the thrills of pushing yourself on an event. Equally, there are many factors that are at play when it comes to signing on the dotted line, getting to the start line... never mind, reaching the finish line! That is why we are pledging to do more than ever to create a welcoming, inclusive environment for all. We want more awesome women at our events absolutely rocking it and creating a positive cycle of inspiring other women to follow suit. Lets explore our journey and how we plan to do this...

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Posted 26th February
Dealing with periods on an event

Dealing with periods on an event

Category: Challenge Event Advice and Guidance

Event Day is by default a challenge in itself – without the added complications of dealing with your period (aches and pains, hormones, and extra kit to contend with to name a few!). We are here to make the day as stress-free and enjoyable as possible and want every single person to come away from an event feeling elated from their experience... even when on their period! We are delving into elements we have considered to help make the event experience as comfortable as possible whilst on your period - more than simply adding chocolate to the fuel stations (although we appreciate that is a crucial step too!). As well as steps you might like to take to ease your comfort levels too.

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