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Adventure is not what we take away - it is what we add.
Adventure is not what we take away – it is what we add.
Hi, I’m Liz Barker, founder of Fit for Living. I’m passionate about helping people of all ages feel more confident, capable and connected to the world around them and that has always included using adventure, movement and the outdoors as a powerful way to change lives.
Alongside my adult coaching and wellbeing work, I have also been involved in community and youth projects designed to support young people through challenge, confidence-building and outdoor experience. This page shares an example of one of those projects, which ran in 2018 and remains an important part of my story and values.
City Trippin is a short film documenting our adventure project, where we took a group of inner-city kids out from the confines of the concrete jungle. Giving them an opportunity to extend their horizons in a bigger world outside of their normal environment.
My mission was to use avdneture as a vewchile for change to empower young people by helping them overcome challenges and connect with the transformative power of the outdoors — building confidence and showing them what’s possible beyond their everyday world.
I grew up adventuring, and those experiences shaped who I am. In 2018, with the support of three close friends — Richie Norton, Thomas Cleminson and Mickey Fitz — I brought that belief to life by piloting a charitable adventure project in Wales. We documented the journey in a short film, City Trippin.
City Trippin follows a group of inner-city teenagers as they step beyond the confines of their normal environment to surf, climb and explore — many for the first time. The aim wasn’t just adventure, but belief: helping them see that there is a much bigger world available to them, and that they are capable of more than they think.
Even if they never return to the mountains or the sea, if the experience helped them feel more confident, motivated and open to what life could offer, then it was worth it.
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This project is not currently running, but it represents the kind of community-focused, values-led work that sits alongside my wider coaching and wellbeing practice.
If you are interested in supporting or collaborating on future youth or community wellbeing initiatives, feel free to get in touch.
