Founded in 2023, Adaptive Adventurers is the brainchild of Kate.S.Appleby. A social enterprise focused on enabling all adventurers to access the outdoors, regardless of their ability, disability or health status. Kate, a chronic illness sufferer, recognised the huge gap in the outdoors community, for an inclusive and all-encompassing approach to engagement, but often barriers exist to prevent this cohesion. Adaptive Adventurers is a community focused on removing these barriers, and enabling access for all. Our pillars are Fund, Friends, Learn & Advocacy.

One of our core principles is the belief that the outdoors should be accessible to all. To help all of society achieve this, we have made created the Adaptive Adventurers grant, designed to provide funding opportunities to enable those facing barriers from accessing the outdoors. We welcome applications from anyone facing challenges accessing the outdoors; whether it be from a barrier of physical disability, meaning specialised kit is required, to those in need of therapy to overcome a fear or experience connected to the outdoors, and much more.

Our grants rely on donation and fundraising. Grants of upto £500 will be made accessible to applicants whom our selection board select as succesful.

Donations will be used entirely to fund the grant pot.