Coast to Coast and the artist Andrew Small

We are very excited about organising and running the coast to coast challenge for a group from the north east containing a broad range of ages from pensioner to teenager. Although its not till next year we have started preparing already! It would be unthinkable for Thrills and Skills for Life to not be 100 percent prepared.

The ride is 147 miles long, which starts in the former coal mining and industrial lands of West Cumbria and ends in Roker in Sunderland.

A monolith marks the end of the route, Chris took a picture of it this week as he has been teaching some Kayaking on Roker beach. When he sees it after 147 miles i expect he will appreciate it even more!

The mirror polished Monolith, created by artist Andrew Small. Called Simply "C" has star constellations etched into its surface and is inspired by the 8 th century monk, Bede, who spent part of his time in Sunderland at Monkwearmouth Monastery.

The artwork is accompanied by various other works along the route to enhance and enrich the route for the last mile. It was all commissioned by Sunderland City Council.

C2C Guide

Working with very positive disabled people, Preparing for the Bushcraft Course

At Thrills and Skills for Life, we were hugely privlidged this week to work with a disabled group. The group were so thrilled to be able to be taken Cycling and worked so hard to achieve their aim.........to cycle a bike. Something a lot of us take for granted. We genuinly felt humbled, the problems and difficulties they go through on a daily basis just to do normal things are massive and yet they are so positive. It made us realise how we are so lucky. We will continue to work with this group on behalf of the NHS Get Active team and look forward to the progress we can all make.
We even found time to give some Instruction on film camera use to our team

Thrills and Skills for Life and our sister company Chris Hall Media recently won a contract to make a Promotional film and Thrills and Skills for Life have won contracts to run a canoe trip for a week and a survival and bushcraft course.

Its all going from strength to strength here and we continue to work hard for you......our valued customers

Kayaking in the news

Have a look at a news story Chris was in where he took a journalist Kayaking

Read it HERE

Cycle tours for NHS

At Thrills and Skills for Life we not only run adventurous and outdoor activities but we do the recording of your event aswell, either moving or still footage. Chris has been running cycle tours for NHS Get Active and conducting the Public Relations photography for them aswell. We could do the same for you!
We dont like to rest and so we have also been running a first aid course for Hamsterley Trailblazers Cycle Club.
Finally a great bit of news! The Documentary Chris Worked on for Special Broadcasting Service Australia was shown last week to a bumper audiance and was the lead story! We dont rest and continually strive to provide the best service we can for our customers

Documentary lead story!

We at Thrills and Skills for Life dont rest! We dont like it! The week of the 09 August we have had some good news. The documentary Chris worked on for Special Broadcasting Service Australia was aired this week and was the lead story!

Meanwhile Chris is working with the NHS taking people cycling and doing some PR photography for them. He is also teaching First Aid to Hamsterley Trailblazers Cycle Club.

Management and Survival Skills

Well what havn't we at Thrills and Skills For Life been up to in the last two weeks! Chris ran the Leadership and Management and Survival Skills course in the west Country for St Augustine's Priory Girls school.

It was a massive success and the girls really enjoyed themselves and learnt a massive ammount about Leadership, Management of your team, living off the land and themselves.

It was a real privlidge to teach them and work with the school, here are some of the girls comments:

"This is by far the BEST school trip we have ever been on, the perfect balance of Guidance and Independance and it was really fun"

"You are very perseptive and have been able to judge peoples characters and allow them to realise their strengths"

"Wow I mean I got to drive a tractor! when do you get to do that in London!"

Some of the wild

food found and produced by the girls and the shelters made of natural materials they found in the woods.