The Youth Adventure Trust volunteers choose to help for many different reasons and, we hope, benefit in many different ways. From supporting a cause that’s important to them to learning new skills, from making new friends to improving their employment prospects, we know it’s not just our young people who benefit from the positive activities we provide. However, here are three surprising benefits of volunteering we hadn’t considered…

This time of year can be hard to get out and run, walk, cycle or whatever your activity of choice is when it’s dark, cold and wet. On this episode with John, we peel back the why on what helps you to stay motivated and get outside and active this winter.

Run, ride, ramble… or ski, scoot or swim your way to resilience with the Youth Adventure Trust.

There are Search and Rescue teams throughout the UK, including dog teams, and they’re ready to venture out in all weathers – day or night – whenever the call comes. Jenny-Anne Dexter talks through her experiences volunteering for the Sussex Search & Rescue.

RED January returns next month with its annual month-long public health campaign empowering people across the UK to move every day in January to support their own mental health and raise funds to help others. Since it started, more than 200,000 people have taken part raising millions of pounds for mental health charities.

One of the greatest gifts that many of us get to enjoy at Christmas is the gift of time. For so much of the year we are so focussed on balancing the daily challenges of work, family, running, and social commitments. Time to get off the hamster wheel is scarce and we are constantly on the go.

Autumn is a season packed with warm colours and nature’s abundance all around us. Before hygge comes a season packed with opportunity for quality time outdoors. Here are five reasons to make the most of the autumn and stave off those Winter blues for a little while longer.

Warren is one of Britain’s leading professional free skiers and an Internationally Qualified Performance Coach and Instructor. He has been a sponsored Volkl freeski athlete for over 10 years and has represents brands such as Scott Sport, Swiss Airlines and Dalbello.

At the National Snow Show we spoke with Caroline Elliott about her amazing canines that help save lives in the mountains.

Dan Egan is an award-winning broadcaster and film producer, and a ski legend who continues to teach and share his love of the sport around the globe.

Following the tragic death of Team GB athlete Ellie Soutter on her 18th Birthday, her family has committed to continue fundraising in her memory. The foundation supports promising ski and snowboarder athletes, both financially and mentally, to help them fufil their potential and achieve their dreams. Click here to find out more about the foundation.

Did you miss the National Snow Show? Check out the highlights from the show and relive some of the best bits from the 2021 event.

Emily shares her advice for you to make the most out of your snow time if you’re heading back to the mountains this winter for the first time in a while and we found out what lucky "charm" Emily takes with her on her travels around the world.

Jamie has broken 3 Guinness world records along with various other speed stunts. A documentary about his journey snowboarding in a ski resort in North Korea was aired on TV and generated nearly 10 million views with National Geographic.

Wenona and Simisola started a travel community dedicated to increasing inclusivity in the winter sports bringing more colour to the mountains.

This isn’t just any running buggy, it’s like a swiss army knife of running buggies. Run, push, pull, cycle even cross country skiing if you want to, the Cybex Zeno running buggy seems to do it all.

Almost everyone at some point in their outdoors life, would have come up against issues with blisters. We caught up with blister prevention pad brand PelliTec on how you can enjoy your time outside for longer with the right gear underfoot.

Brian Wood MC has so far run for 21 days, covering a marathon distance every single day and he's into his final week of running, raising vital funds for Walking with the Wounded.

1 OLYMPIAN - 100 MILES – 30 HOURS – 4000M+ ELEVATION

Watch the premiere of the Iwan Thomas movie on Tuesday!

Put aside the GPS watch or heart rate monitor for a second, and lets go back to the old-fashioned way of using our own instincts to gather feedback. Imagine you were to rate every run or training session that you did on a scale of 1 to 10. With 10 being that you felt incredible and smashed it, and 1 being that it was a total disaster and you couldn’t of felt any worse.