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.