Our Aims
To provide the opportunity to enhance the following skill set for young people from all backgrounds:- Planning, organisation and fundraising
- experience of personal challenge and adventure
- Awareness of strengths, weaknesses and potential
- Individual initiative and independent thought
- Broadened Outlook
- Effective teamwork and leadership
- Sense of community
- Practical exploration and fieldwork skills
- Balance enjoyment with preservation of wild environments
- Formal reporting processes
BSES News
A BSES expedition to Greenland provides the data for a recently published research paper.
Information for those who missed the weekend will be available shortly.
UK Flight Disruptions
Advice for Extreme Arctic flights and those travelling to the YE briefing weekend
Council
BSES Council Members
President
Professor David Rhind CBE FRS FRGS FBA FRICS
Chairman
Edward Watson
Treasurer & Chairman of the Finance Committee
Jeremy Moss
Chairman of the Expeditions Committee
Nigel Harling
Chairman of the Fundraising Committee
Doug Oppenheim
Council Members
Alastair MacDonald
Andrew Toal
Benjamin Stephens
Clare Jackson
Colonel Christopher Blessington
Colonel John Kedar
Derek Marshall
Liz Brookes
Trevor Clarke
Matt Tinsley
Michael Baggs
Nick Haddock
Paul Rose
Richard Williams
Richard Wood
Tony Whiting
Piers Marlow-Thomas
Alastair MacDonald
Andrew Toal
Benjamin Stephens
Clare Jackson
Colonel Christopher Blessington
Colonel John Kedar
Derek Marshall
Liz Brookes
Trevor Clarke
Matt Tinsley
Michael Baggs
Nick Haddock
Paul Rose
Richard Williams
Richard Wood
Tony Whiting
Piers Marlow-Thomas
"The Object of the Society is to advance the education of young people by providing inspirational, challenging, scientific expeditions to remote,wild environments and so promote the development of their confidence, teamwork, leadership, and spirit of adventure and exploration."
