Under the auspices of the Rotary Youth Leadership Award the Rotary Club of Banbury has sponsored two students from the Griffiths Centre, Frank Wise School to attend the Calvert Trust, Exmoor each year since 2012.
Tyler Saunderson and Katelyn Bonham were the lucky participants this year.
The Calvert programme enables people with disabilities to achieve their potential through experiencing exciting, challenging and enjoyable outdoor activities.
Although the course is fully accommodated and catered, they had to be individually independent outside the carefully supervised daytime activities
This was their first experience of living in a single room away from their family or school.
They had been issued with mobile phones to record their experiences and, of course, to contact their parents and school staff when necessary.
The video below provides some flavour of the activities involved and the subsequent debrief to Rotary members conveys their enthusiastic self-awareness of the ways in which they had benefitted.