Christopher J Sugden

Fellow’s Profile

Christopher J Sugden

Fellow’s Profile

Christopher J Sugden

Carry out exploration with an expedition of ten young people

Fellowship

Themes

Focus

Developing curiosity and engaging young people in travel by leading an expedition to Iceland

Countries

Fellowship year

1975

Locality

Scotland

Biography

I am now a retired teacher, but for the last 20 years of my working life I was Rector of Buckie High School in the north of Scotland.

My Fellowship in 1975 allowed me to develop an outdoor education programme for a school in a deprived Edinburgh housing scheme. It culminated in a challenging expedition to the remote, uninhabited Hornstrandir peninsula in Iceland.

Meeting up with these 'young people' 35 years after the event made it clear that the expedition funded by the Fellowship had opened up their horizons for the benefit of themselves and indeed their families. School educational outcomes go way beyond exam results and can take a lifetime to show. The video Iceland 1975 – Castlebrae in Hornstrandir Revisited is about the Fellowship expedition.

The vision of widening the horizons of young people has been with me throughout my career, ever since my Fellowship 46 years ago. The video Scotland – Tanzania: A Twenty Year Partnership is on the same theme of widening horizons for young people, but in a different school.

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Disclaimer

All Reports are copyright © the author. The moral right of the author has been asserted. The views and opinions expressed by any Fellow are those of the Fellow and not of the Churchill Fellowship or its partners, which have no responsibility or liability for any part of them.

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