Despite living in a rural area Frankie didn’t grow up enjoying the outdoors, and didn’t discover it until going to university in her mid twenties.

Since then she’s fallen in love with all kinds of activities: hiking, climbing, cycling, skiing, and swimming... you name it!

In her other work Frankie supports people with purpose to use social media to amplify their message. Particularly focusing on the intersection between adventure and activism.

She completed her own 3000km cycle journey in 2020 creating an award winning podcast Extraordinary Ordinary You. And has founded the Purposeful Adventure Club to make tailored social media advice more accessible.

Often found in the mountains with messy hair and muddy boots

Climbing is Patsy’s favourite thing to do, however, she dabbles in lots of other activities such as cycling touring and. When she was 19 she cycled over 2000km from west spain back home and completed a 500k solo bike tour on a bike whose back wheel was disconnected (she didn’t know how to fix anything back then!).

Professionally, Patsy has an undergraduate degree (1st class:) )in Sustainability and Environmental Management, where she wrote her dissertation on ‘The Sustainability of Rock Climbing and Outdoor Rock Climbing Spaces’. She has been working with various charities and CICs since she graduated in 2022 and also works with events to help them improve their impact.

Sabrina grew up in a rural town where no-one looked like her and, due to her lived experience, developed a fear of the outdoors. However, through running for mental health management and - in that process - finding trail running, she reclaimed a once dangerous space for herself and - since 2020 - for ethnically diverse communities.

Sabrina is an ultra marathoner and trail runner, basically meaning she runs hundreds of miles outdoors for fun! Events she has participated in include the Marathon Des Sables, The Spine Race and the Winter Downs 200. She is a qualified run coach, personal trainer, author, motivational speaker and - in 2020 - founded and is trustee of the community and campaigning charity, Black Trail Runners

Sabrina’s professional background lies in marketing and public relations. Following years spent working for corporate and consumer clients in agencies, in 2004 she founded - and for 16 years ran - her own award winning PR agency.

Dawn has loved being outdoors since childhood but really developed a passion for outdoors activities such as hiking, cycling, kayaking and camping as an adult. She understands the importance of the outdoors for all round wellbeing and now lives in the countryside with regular access to rural spaces. Access for Dawn is especially important as a disabled adventurer.

Sarah has always loved spending time outdoors and despite living in Birmingham, she carves out time to travel to quieter, greener spaces.She particularly loves the positive effects that spending time outdoors can have on mental health. Her favourite outdoor activities include; hiking, swimming and although it’s very much a love/hate relationship, she does keep giving running a go. Recently, she’s started SUP and is off to a wobbly start.

In her day-to-day work, she holds a number of roles, all with a focus on supporting people. She is the Community Engagement Manager at Mental Health Swims CIC, she is a qualified Executive Coach and coaches leaders through personal and professional development issues, focusing on confidence and self-esteem and she is a freelance writer.

Emily was born in India and spent her early years living in Ahmedabad and Bengalaru. Her father’s family come from Gujarat, via Kenya, and her mother’s family are from Yorkshire. She was raised and educated in the UK in a house full of books, siblings and other people’s children, whom her parents were fostering. She's passionate about improving access to the outdoors for everyone, whatever their background.

Kirky lives with her partner and miniature dachshund in Bracknell Forest in Berkshire. She shares caring responsibilities for her mother who has dementia. She has a strong network of friends who she describes as “my LGBT+ urban family” and are a key facet of her life.

From a very young age she loved being outdoors, as a child she would often return home covered in mud which has continued as being active in the outdoors is a constant for her, being present for the mental health benefits and being connected to nature. She also loves outdoors for the development of her physical and emotional self through challenges.

Kirky was born in Germany within British military environment, her family heritage is about service and community so after finishing her degree in Sport and Recreation she transitioned into policing.

She is a serving Police Inspector in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight Constabulary, drawing to the end of a policing career looking at a career in the Outdoors Sector. She has had a passion for equity and inclusion throughout her career and been an authentic, active and inclusive leader of teams. Her subject matter professional experience is with LGBT+ communities having chaired an employee network group, trained and lead LGBT+ policing schemes. She has experience of project delivery, performance metrics, community engagement, community mapping, partnership delivery of safety, risk mitigation and safeguarding.