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Ninety six adventurous secondary school students were excited to take part in the Torpedo7 Get2Go Final on Great Barrier Island last week – organised and hosted by outdoor education specialists, Hillary Outdoors. An eight-strong mixed gender team from Whangarei Girls’ and Boys’ High Schools took home the winners’ trophy as they battled other schools in […]

An update on all the latest Events news from our Events Manager, Darren Ashmore (pictured left)… Events Round Up We are nearly at the end of another busy year for our outdoor adventure events programme. Just under 2400 secondary school students from around 140 schools across the country took part in one of our 20 […]

Hillary Outdoors is delighted to announce that Torpedo7 are now sponsoring our Events Programme and we look forward to embarking on our exciting line up for 2018 with them on board to grow our Events even further. More than 25,000 young people have participated in all our Events programmes since their inception in 2001 and […]

Great Barrier Island Centre Manager Gemma Parkin (pictured right) gives us an overview of what is happening this Summer… The school year might be drawing to a close, but there’s still lots of offer on Great Barrier Island. We’ve got a range of programmes happening over the summer months – prime time for adventuring on […]

We are delighted to announce that the Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) has given us approval to accept more students on our 2018 Tertiary Programmes, an increase of up to 50% on 2017 programmes. This approval for additional students marks a significant milestone and underlines the growing recognition of the value and importance of the work […]