Scholarships are NOW AVAILABLE for a number of awesome opportunities for Hunter Valley, Newcastle and Central Coast young adults.

Have an amazing experience, meet great new friends from across the region and build your confidence to take on whatever life can throw your way! You are in charge. You direct your future through your self-belief, attitudes and decisions. Make the choice to be involved in these opportunities. Who knows? It may be one of the best things you have ever done... that's what the others are saying...

Foundations Schools Course (Year 9)

17th - 23rd June 2010 (7-days, Toonumbar National Park, Northern NSW)

Have an amazing experience, meet great new friends from across the region and build your confidence to take on whatever life can chuck at you! You are in charge. You direct your future through your self-belief, attitudes and decisions. Make the choice to be involved in this program. Who knows? It may be one of the best things you have ever done... that's what the others are saying...Click here for more information about the Foundations course and get in touch with your school's Outward Bound coordinating teacher. Places confirmed by start of term 2.

Aspiring Leaders (16 - 18 year olds)

17th - 23rd June 2010 (7-days, Toonumbar National Park, Northern NSW)

All 16 - 18 year old leaders, male and female, from across the region have an opportunity to apply for one of 15 scholarships provided by Newcastle Permanent Charitable Foundation for the 7-day Aspiring Leaders Program, designed to challenge, equip and inspire you to take the initiative and lead our society into the future. Applications close Friday 3rd April 2009. Be sure you are there. Get in early, do it now. Click here for more information on Aspiring Leaders and the application form .

Outward Bound is grateful to the Newcastle Permanent Charitable Foundation for providing scholarships for the 2006 - 2008 Hunter Aspiring Leaders program.

Forms

Successful Scholarship Applicants will need to complete a Medical Declaration Form and send it to Att: Regional Partnerships Manager, Outward Bound Australia, Naas Road, Tharwa ACT 2620 by Friday 3rd April 2009.

Medical Declaration Form

2009 Outward Bound Hunter NSW Equipment List

Feminine Hygiene Information

Information for Parents

Summit to Sea (18+ year olds)

11th January - 5th February 2010 (26 days Australian Alps National Parks)

Australian Alps National Parks,The pinnacle of Outward Bound. Summit to Sea is an ultimate epic journey through 3 states; from Australia's highest peaks to the pristine beaches of eastern Victoria. Discover more about who you are and what you are really capable of. Explore your dreams, tap into your unlimited potential and start to plan your future with renewed confidence.

Click here for more information and an application form for the Summit Scholarship

Trained Leaders - Outward Bound Internship (18+ year olds)

This is what it is all about. Our instructors are our greatest asset, our biggest pride, and they are the ones who are living the Outward Bound dream!

Do you want to become an outdoor education professional? Want to work in some of the most spectacular wilderness 'offices' in the country, with a superb bunch of mates? Do you want to be trained by and work for the nation's premier award-winning organisation, with the international links and exchange opportunities? ...Do you want a hand-up to make it all possible? ...Thought so!

There are several intern/staff intakes per year, but only one partial scholarship for the Hunter/ Newcastle/ Central Coast region. No time like the present.

Click here to find out more about this golden opportunity.

Click here for more information on the Internship.