RESONANCE GROWING ENTERPRISES 2024 SOCIAL IMPACT REPORT
BF Adventure
Using outdoor adventure to build confidence, resilience and life skills for young people.
Organisation: BF Adventure
Location: Cornwall
Partnership date: February 2020
Investment amount: £150,000
Resonance fund: South West SITR Fund
About BF Adventure
BF Adventure is an outdoor education charity in Cornwall that supports disadvantaged and vulnerable young people through adventure-based learning. Each year, the charity works with thousands of participants through school programmes, residentials and specialist wellbeing initiatives, helping them overcome social, educational and employment barriers. It also delivers long-term support for young people with learning disabilities, physical disabilities and mental health needs, using the outdoors to build confidence, resilience and independence.
Our Investment
The investment from the South West SITR Fund was on-lent from BF Adventure to Via Ferrata Cornwall, BF Adventure’s social enterprise trading arm. This investment was used to install the South West’s first Via Ferrata, helping to advance the company’s tourism and leisure sector income stream.
Their Via Ferrata, ‘Iron Stairway’, which opened in July 2020, consists of a 70 metre long single strand of wire, suspended 20 metres above a water-filled quarry. All profits made from Via Ferrata Cornwall are recycled back into BF Adventure, supporting the work that it does with disadvantaged and vulnerable young people.
Our Impact
The investment has strengthened BF Adventure's long-term financial sustainability by generating unrestricted income that is reinvested into its charitable work. This enables the organisation to continue providing outdoor learning and therapeutic programmes that help disadvantaged and vulnerable young people build confidence, improve wellbeing and develop the skills they need to thrive.
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Adrian Richards, BF Adventure’s CEO: “We’re excited to have launched Via Ferrata Cornwall, the first ever Via Ferrata in the South West! This high adrenaline activity gives people the chance to journey across old granite quarries over twenty metres high, pushing their limits, overcoming fears and focusing their minds on an epic and unforgettable adventure. As a Community Interest Company, all profits go straight towards BF Adventure, a charity supporting local disadvantaged children and young people. Helping them on a journey of change, it uses its beautiful sixty-acre site of heathland, woodland and flooded quarries to enable them to identify their own social, emotional and physical barriers and choose their own challenges to overcome these.”
Leila Sharland, Head of Growing Enterprises: “The BF Adventure investment is an exciting opportunity to bring a new adrenalin activity to Cornwall which will provide a fresh income stream to an excellent Cornish charity - and its Social Enterprise arm - which has been supporting young people from across the county for decades. It has been great to work with a team who are so dedicated to improving lives and who have the vision to make the most out of their site. I am really looking forward to seeing the Via Feratta in action, but they may have a job convincing me to go on there as I am not very good with heights!”
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