Venture Out

Venture Out Venture Out are a not for profit social enterprise prescribing and delivering a broad range of nature based outdoor developmental programmes

Venture Out Wilderness Project is a social enterprise not-for-profit company limited by guarantee, prescribing and delivering wilderness based therapeutic programmes to young people experiencing a range of diverse challenges in their lives. Through tailored programmes, experienced Venture Out guides create opportunities for young people to learn, grow, explore and enjoy their natural surroundings

for their physical, emotional, social and mental well-being. Our team consists of experienced social care practitioners with professional qualifications in outdoor adventure activities. Following years of extensive experience delivering personal development focused nature based programmes to young people from all backgrounds, our guides are ideally qualified to support participants through their therapeutic outdoor adventure journeys. More recently Venture Out have started offering a range of health and wellness focused experiences to the corporate market and private paying groups and clubs. If you are interested in bringing your team together to bond or team build, just get in touch to hear about our bespoke experiences.

We've had a great month of August with lots to celebrate 🥳Here's a quick recap* We were delighted to be shortlisted for ...
26/08/2026

We've had a great month of August with lots to celebrate 🥳

Here's a quick recap

* We were delighted to be shortlisted for the - awards night to take place in September in the Shelbourne Hotel🤞

* We've had a few great days working with .recovery & Gillian Conway - Work delivering a range of outdoor activities with people in recovery 💪

* We delivered an outdoir experiential personal development programme with Young adults 18-25yrs through No 4 Youth Service 🙌

* We concluded our work with Tacu Family Resource Center & Maple YC developing a mental health toolkit. Were excited to be working on the final details before the launch in a few weeks .... watch this space
Thanks
Rethink Ireland for funding this exciting project 🙏

*We delivered our Ember Wilderness based expedition programme in collaboration with Irish Refugee Council
The programme brought 12 young adults into the wilds to help promote their health and wellbeing 😎

A great hike today with the .recovery Gillian Conway - Work Compass Recovery group.Well done to everyone for taking onnt...
24/08/2026

A great hike today with the .recovery Gillian Conway - Work Compass Recovery group.

Well done to everyone for taking onnthe challenge

Thanks also to the community Gardai for helping us with transport in their community bus!

A great session on the water today with .recovery Gillian Conway - Work Galway's Compass Recovery group at our Urban Adv...
13/08/2026

A great session on the water today with .recovery Gillian Conway - Work Galway's Compass Recovery group at our Urban Adventure Hub

Well done to everyone for joining us.

This project has been funded by the HSEIreland HSE's National Lottery funding initiative and was designed to get people outdoors, active amd learning

Thanks The Irish National Lottery

Looking forward to working with the Irish Refugee Council Again this week, delivering our Ember expedition programme wit...
12/08/2026

Looking forward to working with the Irish Refugee Council
Again this week, delivering our Ember expedition programme with 12 of their young adults.

For the 3 day programme, the participants will be hiking and camping through Connemara while engaging in a personal development programme designed to help them develop healthy habits and coping strategies to promote their wellbeing.

Well done to all involved 👏💪🙌

We are very much looking forward to starting this exciting project with our partners in Galway City Partnership in the ...
10/08/2026

We are very much looking forward to starting this exciting project with our partners in Galway City Partnership in the coming weeks.

Thanks to the and the HSE for funding this project.

This project will take place at our Urban Adventure Hub, made possible with support from Galway Sports Partnership and Sport Ireland @

We're delighted to announce that Venture Out has been shortlisted for the 2026 Business Post Sustainable Business Awards...
28/07/2026

We're delighted to announce that Venture Out has been shortlisted for the 2026 Business Post Sustainable Business Awards in the Community Project of the Year category!

The Business Post Sustainable Business Awards have become one of Ireland's leading benchmarks for sustainability performance, recognising businesses that are driving meaningful change alongside commercial success. Being shortlisted reflects the work our team has done to embed sustainability into how we operate and the impact we're delivering.

Congratulations to all of this year's shortlisted organisations. We're looking forward to celebrating with our peers and the wider business community on 1 October at The Shelbourne, Dublin.

View the full shortlist here: https://sustainablebusinessawards.ie/2026-shortlist/

Thanks to Irish Youth Foundation
For the nomination

We're looking forward to being part of this great initiative.Well done Galway Sports Partnership and Sport Ireland for l...
28/07/2026

We're looking forward to being part of this great initiative.

Well done Galway Sports Partnership and Sport Ireland for leading on this and thanks for inviting us to be involved

We've really enjoyed working alongside all the young people of Ballinrobe and Tourmakeady over the past few months suppo...
25/07/2026

We've really enjoyed working alongside all the young people of Ballinrobe and Tourmakeady over the past few months supporting them to create their mental health toolkit.

This project aims to create a youth led toolkit, providing a source of information, support and advice for all young people, helping them protect and promote their own health and wellbeing.

Thanks Tacu Family Resource Center
Maple YC
Rethink Ireland

For inviting us to collaborate 0n this exciting and impactful project

New signage at our Urban Adventure Hub acknowledging all our funders and supportersThanks to all the organisations that ...
23/07/2026

New signage at our Urban Adventure Hub acknowledging all our funders and supporters

Thanks to all the organisations that support the impactful work we do 🙏

We've had a fantastic month of July to date, with so much activity taking place across all areas of our organisation.We ...
21/07/2026

We've had a fantastic month of July to date, with so much activity taking place across all areas of our organisation.

We continue to deliver our adventure therapy 1-2-1 supports on an outreach basis across the region
Thanks Community Foundation Ireland and Tusla for funding these impactful interventions👏

We've welcomed lots of groups to our urban adventure hub, supporting individuals with varying needs to try out different outdoor activities
Thanks Galway and Roscommon Education and Training Board (GRETB) and Galway Sports Partnership for helping make this project a reality 💪

We welcomed HopeSpace Connacht Rugby and AIB down to the hub to celebrate funding success🙌

We were delighted to work with Ollscoil na Gaillimhe | University of Galway and their students union, delivering a health and wellbeing experience with their staff

And we were so grateful for all the volunteers from PwC Ireland for their help painting and planting 🙏

We look forward to another busy period ahead as we continue to positively impact lives through outdoir activity, nature engagement and Therapeutic supports

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