Meet the Team

Here at the Peak Adventure we are very fortunate to have a group of extremely passionate people with a wealth of experience who are dedicated to developing and implementing our programme. Read below to find out more about their stories.

ANDY BRADBURY

Operations Director

  • My name is Andy Bradbury. My biggest passion in life is the outdoors. For more than 15 years, alongside a successful career in sales and management, I undertook a variety of incredible multi-day/week hikes through the Alps, the High Sierras and all across Britain. I involved groups of friends in challenges such as the Three Peaks, Welsh 3000’s and Lake District 24 and at every opportunity I raced up the motorways to Snowdonia and the Lakes to take in the mountain air and get away from the hustle and bustle of the business world.

  • Towards the latter part of that time I gained my Lowland and Expedition Leader awards with the Mountain Training Association. This enabled me to help out local schools with Duke of Edinburgh awards and similar adventure/camping trips. The satisfaction and fulfilment this gave me sparked a change in my moral compass and the direction I wanted my life to go in shifted.

  • I decided to set up this website, not just as a record of some of the amazing trips and adventures I have been a part of, but also as an insight into how they have helped me and what they have meant to me. I hoped that it would inspire more people to indulge in the benefits of similar outdoor adventures.

    I started to realise what my heart really wanted and in 2018 I took the massive decision to walk away from my career and step into the unknown. With no initial plan just the belief that my passion, with this platform, could turn The Peak Adventure into organisation that would not only provide fulfilling adventures for many people but could also provide these opportunities to the wider community.

  • After a month trekking in Nepal with co-founder and school friend James I took part in some volunteer work in a pupil referral unit and managed to get a job in a local senior school, in their alternative provision department, working with students at risk of exclusion. I have since gained my level 3 Forest School Leader qualification and have helped design and deliver alternative provision programs with vulnerable young people in a school setting combining wellbeing activities, Forest School, John Muir and DofE Awards along with curriculum-based learning.

    It is with all of this experience and passion combined that I am driven to help as many people as possible reach their Peak through Adventure.

Connie Frost

Programme Director

  • I have worked in education since 2010. My career began teaching in secondary schools in North London. Working, living and commuting in areas with large amounts of social and economic deprivation triggered a wanted change in career path for me and I returned to the South East to work in the area of alternative provision.

  • I designed and implemented an outdoor based provision to support young people who were at risk of permanent exclusion from their mainstream school. Following a hugely successful 5 years, I was ready to take on a new challenge and wanted return to mainstream education. I was appointed as a member of the senior leadership team, with oversight of behaviour, wellbeing and safeguarding. It was astonishing to see the impact that the pandemic had had on student wellbeing, attendance and behaviour in secondary schools county-wide. Speaking with colleagues, attending networking events and keeping up to date with the media made it clear to me the desperate need for further alternative provision.

  • Having crossed paths with Andy previously, it felt like the opportune moment to team up, combine skills and provide the county with a programme to support young people finding full time education in mainstream school difficult. We have a shared love of the outdoors and a passion and commitment to helping young people better understand their barriers and how to overcome them.

    Each young person is different from the next and education should be broad and enriching in order to cater for an ever growing spectrum of interests, skills and ability.

PHIL DEAN

Non-exec Director

  • I am relentlessly passionate about progress and have the environment at the heart of everything I do.

    I am a Careers Leader & outdoor learning expert running the John Muir award across whole secondary school year groups and have been involved in education since 1999. Prior to that I was a restaurant’s opening manager and before that a ski and watersports instructor.

  • I bring to The Peak Adventure a wealth of experience and knowledge and have created a number of wellbeing development strategies including the Pillars of Possibility which allows young people to plan/do/review their own personal development.

    I am here to help develop The Peak Adventure and am happy to chat about creations & collaborations.