We work to make a positive life possible for some of Scotland’s most vulnerable people across community justice, employability and wellbeing. Our intensive personal development and experiential learning - delivered in Scottish communities and the outdoors - support people to build skills and unlock confidence.
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0For 40 years, Venture Trust have been supporting those facing some of life's toughest challenges into Scotland’s most inspiring, restorative natural environments.
Our core aim is to enable those facing multiple complex barriers to build stability, overcome challenges, and gain the skills, and perspectives needed to pursue a fulfilling, healthy, happy life. We focus on communities facing heightened inequality and adversity, where the need is greatest.
Amplifying the impact of evidence-based best practice to personal development, community engagement, employability training, and therapy by conducting our programmes in the outdoors and other alternative spaces.
Our approach helps remove many of the implicit biases, power dynamics, and accessibility issues that arise within traditional services, as well as affording some distance from everyday distractions and worries, allowing participants to focus on their own wellbeing and development.
We make our services accessible to those who need them most by operating a wide range of programmes, free at the point of use, across most of Scotland, permeating communities of high deprivation with our dedicated outreach teams, and working extensively with the third and public sectors to identify those most urgently in need of our services.
Our programmes are varied to align our approach to address the differing challenges our distinct participant groups face.
