New Zealand’s leading outdoor education provider has teamed up with Hawke’s Bay Foundation to help unlock more young local students’ true potential.

The Outward Bound Fund, launched in 2021 in partnership with Hawke’s Bay Foundation will support 14 students from local high schools to attend the Outward Bound ‘Kaweka’ Course at Anakiwa in the Marlborough Sounds, every year, in perpetuity.

Founded in the UK in 1941 by Lawrence Holt and Kurt Hahn, Outward Bound is today an international network established in over 35 countries and attended by more than 150,000 people each year.  In New Zealand alone, 65  thousand students have personally gained from the Outward Bound ‘experience’ based at Anakiwa in the Marlborough Sounds – 150 of those from Hawke’s Bay.

At a cost of around $70 thousand per year to run the programmes, Outward Bound relies heavily on personal donations, bequests or sponsorships and remains one of New Zealand’s leading organisations for igniting participant’s full potential through outdoor challenge and adventure.