Latest Updates & Impact

Dear Supporter, 

Happy belated New Year from all of us here at Endeavour. Through the winter months we worked hard to ensure our young people had access to new and exciting activities such as; ice skating, Peak District residential, bouldering, Natural History Museum, Coal Mining Museum and we even took our primary students to the Panto! Oh Yes We Did! 

Alongside all of this, we have been exploring with foods having our young people make dishes from around the world, including paella and bao buns! None of this would have been possible without your donations, dedication and support. 

We also had medical students on placement with us which has given our young people the opportunity to learn about the medical profession as well as healthy living. 

If you would like to continue to support Endeavour, you can do so here.

Need a Cold Weather Activity?Here is Mark's (Lead Outdoor Instructor) favourite Board Game! 

This boardgame is sure to keep you entertained on a stormy night!  

Wingspan is a competitive, medium-weight, card-driven, engine-building board game from Stonemaier Games. It's designed by Elizabeth Hargrave and features over 170 birds illustrated by Beth Sobel, Natalia Rojas, and Ana Maria Martinez. 

You are bird enthusiasts—researchers, bird watchers, ornithologists, and collectors—seeking to discover and attract the best birds to your network of wildlife preserves. Each bird extends a chain of powerful combinations in one of your habitats (actions). These habitats focus on several key aspects of growth: 

• Gain food tokens via custom dice in a birdfeeder dice tower 
• Lay eggs using egg miniatures in a variety of colours 
• Draw from hundreds of unique bird cards and play them

The winner is the player with the most points after 4 rounds. 

Condensed milk? in cookies? Yep!

As part of our partnership with Betty's and Taylor's, here is one of our New Year recipes:

Condensed Milk Cookies 

P.S. it's Dave (our Chair of Trustees) favourite recipe!

 Ingredients: 

• 225g Caster sugar 
• 225g Unsalted butter, softened 
• 170g Condensed Milk 
• 350g Self-raising flour, sifted 
• 100g Chocolate chips 

Method:

1. Preheat the oven to 180°C, (160°C for fan ovens), Gas Mark 4.   
2. In a large bowl, cream the butter, sugar and condensed milk until light and fluffy.   
3. Mix in the flour to make a soft dough and then mix in the chocolate chips.  
4. Roll the dough into walnut size balls and place on a baking tray, flattening them out slightly. Be sure to space well apart as they’ll spread!   
5. Bake for 12-15 minutes. 

Save the Date! 

Don't miss out on any of our upcoming events 

Follow the link to see our events page and save the dates for some of the exiciting activities we have coming up! 

Latest Updates & Impact

Dear Supporter, 

Welcome to the first edition of Endeavour’s new newsletter. This special Winter Edition will be followed, from Spring 2024, with regular monthly updates. 

We are proud to open this newsletter with the results of some impact reporting we recently undertook which clearly demonstrates that Endeavour consistently provides a positive impact on young people’s access to green space with significant benefits for young people’s mental and physical wellbeing: 

As we approach winter, ensuring fair access to adventure and the outdoors becomes ever more expensive. Endeavour provides new outdoor clothing, pays for access to facilities like indoor climbing walls, has to provide lunches and cover transport costs. At the same time there are ever greater pressures on young people’s mental and physical health, more time indoors, dark nights, approaching Christmas pressures, etc, making our service even more crucial for the development and wellbeing of young people.

One small action you can do to help is send the Endeavour virtual Christmas Card.
This will not only help us raise funds to truly democratise adventure but also spread the word about the work Endeavour undertakes. 

By buying and sharing this card you will both help us pay for those essential elements of our delivery we've outlined above but also help raise our profile. All of this will help us help young people reach their peak. Thanks! 

Pick Your Design & Get Your Card Here!

Need a Christmas Walk? Here is Ed's (CEO) favourite route! 

This fantastic and exciting walk starts at Surprise View car park, heading uphill past Mother Cap, to Owler Tor, before returning to the car park via a very adventurous path beneath Millstone Edge. There are fantastic views, rocks to be scrambled over and some interesting archaeology en route.  It is a short walk, which should comfortably take less than 2 hours, however, it is very uneven underfoot and occasionally exposed (so only set off on this if you are comfortable with that).  This web page has some photos, a description and gpx file for the walk: Click Here 

Or some Christmas Baking?

As part of our partnership with Betty's and Taylor's, here is one of our favourite festive recipes: Winter Warmer Brownie.

Ingredients: 

• 125g Butter 
• 125g Dark Chocolate 
• 2 Large Eggs 
• 90g Sugar 
• 60g Plain Flour 
• 25g Cocoa Powder 
• 30g Milk Chocolate 
• 30g White Chocolate 
• 2 tsp Icing Sugar 
• 1 tsp Ground Cinnamon 

Method:

1. Weight and chop up the dark chocolate 
2. Add the butter and dark chocolate together in a saucepan & slowly melt on a low heat. 
3. Whisk the eggs and sugar in a bowl.  
4. Add the cooled melted chocolate and butter to the bowl and mix together. 
5. Fold in the cocoa & flour. 
6. Let cool for 5 minutes and then add the milk.  
7. Line a bread tin with greaseproof paper.  
8. Add your brownie mix to the tin.  
9. Bake for 20 mins at 165oc. 
10. Whilst the brownie is baking, mix together the icing sugar and cinnamon.  
11. Allow it to cool slightly, slice to portion, then using a sieve sprinkle the icing sugar cinnamon mix. 
12. Serve warm with ice cream.