About Us
Adventure Queens is a not-for-profit women’s adventure community, run entirely by volunteers.
We help delicately smash down barriers that prevent women from going on outdoor adventures and help them realise their full potential. We’re free to join, highly accessible and completely inclusive, for anyone that identifies as a woman.
We host spaces, both outdoors and online, to bring the community together to share stories, experiences and advice in safe, supportive and non-judgmental ways. It’s about sharing skills and building confidence for the everyday adventurer to grow.
Since 2017, our outdoor adventure community has grown to over 15,000 women, with 25 regional groups, one Mum’s group and three international groups. We’ve had hundreds of events from campouts, local meet-ups and in-store partner events. And to date, we’ve supported eleven recipients of the Adventure Queens Grant.
On the Blog
On the Blog
Exploring the Outer Hebrides: Embracing the Unexpected on a Solo Adventure
I take the philosophy that “You only live once” to heart – if I’m not working or studying, I like to be doing something that brings me joy. I have spent a lot of my adult life doing things that I have to do – I was a teenage mum, trying to get by with very little...
An Unlikely Journey: Lessons from Cycling Solo across a Continent
People like me – brown, single mothers in their mid-30s – don’t do this kind of thing. Neither did I: until I did. On a cold and wet morning this spring, I left home in Glasgow on my old touring bike and pedalled nearly 3000 miles until, exactly two months later, I...
An unreasonable decision: cycling solo across a continent
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man” George Bernard Shaw, 1903 I can’t imagine a more unreasonable thing for someone...
Istanbul: An Unexpected Journey
Not all journeys are geographic I arrived in Istanbul on the 4th of June, exhausted and euphoric. For two months, my sole focus had been cycling here. My body demanded vast quantities of baked goods to keep my legs spinning. My mind fixated on the next turn,...
On the Blog
Exploring the Outer Hebrides: Embracing the Unexpected on a Solo Adventure
I take the philosophy that “You only live once” to heart – if I’m not working or studying, I like to be doing something that brings me joy. I have spent a lot of my adult life doing things that I have to do – I was a teenage mum, trying to get by with very little...
An Unlikely Journey: Lessons from Cycling Solo across a Continent
People like me – brown, single mothers in their mid-30s – don’t do this kind of thing. Neither did I: until I did. On a cold and wet morning this spring, I left home in Glasgow on my old touring bike and pedalled nearly 3000 miles until, exactly two months later, I...
An unreasonable decision: cycling solo across a continent
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man” George Bernard Shaw, 1903 I can’t imagine a more unreasonable thing for someone...
Istanbul: An Unexpected Journey
Not all journeys are geographic I arrived in Istanbul on the 4th of June, exhausted and euphoric. For two months, my sole focus had been cycling here. My body demanded vast quantities of baked goods to keep my legs spinning. My mind fixated on the next turn,...