The Team – arcadventures.co.uk

PETER JEFFERY

Founder & Outdoor Instructor

Pete has over 15 years of experience in working with young people in the outdoors. He is a qualified Activity Instructor as well as having a diploma in education studies and a plethora of activity specific qualifications.

He has worked within the major outdoor providers in the country both as an instructor and a staff trainer, has experience as a youth worker with both NCS and the Princess Trust and has worked as an external specialist for Pupil Referral Units.

Pete is a qualified Mountain Leader, Paddle sport Leader, Caving & Climbing Instructor and is always updating and expanding his knowledge.

In 2017 he founded ARC Adventures to specialise in developing unique courses within the outdoors to address specific issues that certain client groups present and to try and push forward the quality of what outdoor education is capable of.

Pete has been successfully delivering these to schools, challenging groups, and Pupil Referral Units ever since.

He is also an avid Climber, Caver, Builder, Philosopher & Explorer who on a wet day can be found in a board game café eating ice cream.

He has worked within the major outdoor providers in the country both as an instructor and a staff trainer, has experience as a youth worker with both NCS and the Princes Trust and has worked as an external specialist for Pupil Referral Units.

Pete is a qualified Mountain Leader, Paddle sport Leader, Caving & Climbing Instructor and is always updating and expanding his knowledge.

In 2017 he founded ARC adventures to specialise in developing unique courses within the outdoors to address specific issues that certain client groups present and to try and push forward the quality of what outdoor education is capable of.

He has been successfully delivering these to schools, challenging groups and Pupil Referral Units ever since.

Pete is also an avid Climber, Caver, Builder, Philosopher & Explorer who on a wet day can be found in a board game café eating ice cream.

Peter Jeffery

Founder & outdoor instructor

Clare is a practicing artist with 20 years’ experience teaching adults and young people. She weaves her artwork from plastic rubbish discovering and celebrating the ingenuity of human invention.

This is also how she approaches her teaching. Using art to teach new skills, grow confidence and give practical expression to hopes, dreams and emotions. She has always designed her projects to stimulate and facilitate her students unique creativity, rather than specifying what they will make. She sees her job as predicting potential materials and processes that may be used, and teaching the most appropriate techniques to make the students ideas come alive.

Through her partnership with Peter’s work in the outdoors, her workshops take his life changing activities and use them to inspire totemic objects that crystallise the emotional realisations they have had in their adventures.

She lives in the Brecon Beacons and manages the Lavender Project, a site that for the last 5 years has housed adults needing space away from various lives in the mainstream. Using construction, gardening, cooking and communal living to expand the possibilities of alternative methods of living, being and often healing.

Clare MIsselbrook

Art Facilitator & Pastoral Care

Maui

Therapy dog & nap enthusiast

If you’re lucky, you may catch Maui on site: He’s our personal stick collector, face licker and all around every young person’s favourite motivator.

Feel free to greet him with a hug if you see him shiver – he was born in the tropics of South America and doesn’t know how to handle the Welsh weather and its infamous sideways rain.

Dani has been working as a creative for over a decade. She started her own graphic design business after years in a multinational company made her realise she preferred to interact with her clients one on one. She joined the team at the start of 2022 to help show off the magic that happens over at ARC – she saw the old website and brand and thought it didn’t do the incredible work any justice.

Dani has lived here, there and everywhere; she runs around the world with her shadow, Maui, but has found that this little nook in the Brecon Beacons is worth a pause… the work ARC does with young people is so beautiful, she wants to support it in its mission.

When Dani’s not on the computer making things look pretty, you’ll find her out on all the sessions making sure you’re kitted up, fully supported when going on your adventures and demonstrating that, although terrifying, all the activities are worth pushing yourself through.

P.S. Below are some of our other members of the ARC family who deserve a huge thank you and you may also get a chance to meet.