AstraZeneca Sends School Children Outward BoundingThirty-Seven young people from secondary schools in Macclesfield, Poynton and Congleton are this week attending an Outward Bound Course at Ullswater in the Lake District, sponsored by AstraZeneca.
Thirty-Seven young people from secondary schools in Macclesfield, Poynton and Congleton are this week attending an Outward Bound Course at Ullswater in the Lake District, sponsored by AstraZeneca. AstraZeneca donates £10,000 per year to the Outward Bound organisation to provide a bursary to enable deserving youngsters reach their full potential.The bursary is now in its fifth year and qualifying youngsters are from Eaton Bank, Congleton, Poynton High, Henbury High, The Kings School, Tytherington County High and Fallibroome High schools. Young people chosen to attend this year's week-long course spent a day at AstraZeneca's Alderley Park site getting to know each other and joining in ice breaking exercises. By the time the youngsters arrive in Ullswater they will have put their trust in someone they have only just met and made many new friends.Wendy Priest, Community Relations Officer for AstraZeneca, said, "Approximately 160 pupils from 15 secondary schools in the region have benefited during the last five years from attending one of our Outward Bound sponsored courses. The pupils always return from their week in the Lake District with new friends and will have experienced challenging outdoor activities which they might not normally have been able to do."Accompanying the pupils were their teachers, some of who will also join them on their journey to Ullswater, spending a day at the centre and returning to see them receive their certificates at the end of an action packed week.The AstraZeneca Outward Bound Bursary Project is part of the Company's commitment to youth and its local community.
