About

British Exploring Society (BES) is a youth development charity with a unique heritage founded on the belief that challenging experiences can change lives. BES is known for empowering and equipping young people with the courage, skills, resilience and determination to make the most of their future.

BES prepares and takes young people (between the ages of 14 and 25) on expeditions to remote locations where they face challenges, gain skills and learn about themselves - as well as acquiring knowledge relevant to their lives and to the fragile environments that they explore.

Since 1932, BES has taken 11,000 young people ion these expeditions and the results are transformative – not just in terms of practical skills and resilience, but in a new-found confidence and self-belief which they carry forward to their future life.

More than this, through their adventure together, the young people forge friendships for life and become part of a unique supportive and continuing community of explorers with shared experiences, values and perspectives on the world.