The Adventure Queens Grant The Adventure Queens Grant supports three bold and adventurous women to embark on a human-powered, boundary-pushing,...
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Walking the Cornish Celtic Way: A Pilgrimage in Learning
When I set off on the Cornish Celtic Way as an Adventure Queens grant winner, I carried something heavier than my rucksack - the knowledge that I...
Grant winner takes new strides on the Isle of Arran
I first came across the Adventure Queens Grant a few years ago. It looked exciting and although I had adventures in mind, I felt it was something...
A Wild Change of Plan
Adventure Queen Grant winner, Ashleigh Kitchiner, reflects on her October 2025 storm-disrupted solo adventure.
2024/2025 Adventure Queens Grant Winners
In 2017, we were over the moon to be able to launch the Adventure Queens Grant – our little way of supporting members of our community to...
Kat’s Anglesey Coastal Path adventure
New Year, New adventure – new Me! When I heard in January that my Adventure Queen grant application had been successful, I felt shocked, excited –...
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...
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...
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...
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...









