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Kike Grace Agunbiade is Speaking at The Big Retreat Festival - Community Spotlight!
We are excited to share that Kike - who has supported All The Elements since the very beginning - will be running 2 sessions at The Big Retreat Festival next weekend!
Funding Available with the 2025 YHA Festival of Walking
The YHA Festival of walking is back for it’s fourth year on Friday 12th September - Sunday 12th October 2025. With grants and hostel discounts available!
The Komoot x All The Elements Community Fund is Open
The komoot x All The Elements Community Fund is now open!
We are excited to be offering two £1000 pots of funding, designed to support your community to access the outdoors, in partnership with komoot.
The Resilient Communities Series 2025
The Resilient Communities Series is back with 3 new sessions, each designed around the things you’ve told us you need to support and strengthen your work. Each session is free to attend and is for anyone working to make the outdoors more accessible and representative.
The Outdoor Connection 2025
From the 25th to the 27th April, we gathered at YHA Castleton for The Outdoor Connection 2025. An amazing weekend, bringing together the experts and community leaders who are shaping the future of an inclusive, accessible and representative UK outdoors.
Meet The Outdoor Connection 2025 Facilitators
We are so excited to have so many experts from our community leading sessions at The Outdoor Connection 2025.
Start Stargazing and Open Up the Skies
Outreach astronomer Neill Sanders founded nonprofit Go Stargazing to make stargazing more accessible. ATE asked him to share his story and top tips for getting to know your dark skies. This article is based on an interview with Neill Sanders conducted by ATE Founder Soraya Abdel-Hadi.
‘Capsized’ - A Conversation With Film Director Roxanna Barry
Directed by and featuring All The Elements community - We caught up with Director Roxanna Barry, to find out what it was like producing the film Capsized and releasing it into the world.
Talking About Suicide: Advice for Outdoor Leaders
If you were worried about the mental health of someone in your community or someone you know, would you know what to do? In this article Kelvyn James Founder of Wellness Walks gives their advice on what to do if you think someone is having suicidal thoughts.
Black To The Trails is Back! Key Learnings From the Last Two Years
Black To The Trails, the world's most ethnically diverse trail running event, is back for the 3rd time in 2025!
We caught up with Sabrina, Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Black Trail Runners to find out more about running Black To The Trails.
The Relationship Between Kit and Access to the UK Outdoors
Clothing can cause many barriers when trying to access the UK outdoors. We asked Steph Wetherell , the co-founder of Every Body Outdoors, to explain some of ways it can stop people getting outside, and explore some of the solutions that advocates and allies are discovering.
Embedding a Successful Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Culture – Insights From The Outdoor Connection 2024
How do you embed a successful Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) culture in your community group or organisation? At The Outdoor Connection 2024, Aneela McKenna spoke on how to create and align systems, processes and values that will drive an inclusive culture for all…
Gender and Hiking: Creating Inclusive Outdoor Spaces
It’s one of the most talked about areas of diversity but how can we practically support more inclusion from a gender perspective within outdoors spaces? We asked Mountain Leader and outdoor instructor Harriet MacMillan to share how she runs gender inclusive outdoor sessions…
Volunteer Opportunity - The Summit 2025
Join The Summit team as our social media volunteer for 2025.
Sahir Permall’s Reverse Migration - Community Spotlight!
We caught up with Sahir to learn more about what it was like to cycle across the continent of Europe and how this has altered her own sense of belonging.
Exploring Edges With Bicycle Adventure Club & Ekho Collective - Community Spotlight!
We’re celebrating the Bicycle Adventure Club who collaborated with the Ekho Collective to run a project called “Exploring The Edges”
Breaking Down Barriers to Beekeeping
We asked beekeeper Rachel Sampara to give us the lowdown on beekeeping, how she got started and how she’s helping others to overcome the barriers to this traditional craft…
Have your say in Wave Wahines ‘Diversity in Surfing’ Survey
Wave Wahines have released their latest ‘Diversity in surfing survey’ and they want to hear from you! The survey is open until the 30th January 2025
The Waymaking Project - Community Spotlight!
Next up we're celebrating Lorna Stoddart founder of The Waymaking Project - An OUTSIDE landscapes project.
Les Latchman, Photographer, Filmmaker and Writer - Community Spotlight!
We caught up with photographer, filmmaker and writer Leslie Latchman, who joined us at The 2024 Summit, to find out more about his year.