Get Outside with our Beginner's Guides & Helpful Advice
Each of our guides includes practical tips to improve your confidence and keep you safe outdoors.
How to Build Outdoor Confidence: A Beginner’s Guide to Getting Outside
GROW YOUR HIKING CONFIDENCE! You don’t need to grow up hiking or arrive with all the gear and knowledge – follow our expert tips
How to Manage Your Period When Hiking
Everything you need to know about managing your period on a long hike where you may have to change your period products outdoors
How To Start Wild Swimming
Find out how to start wild swimming safely with advice from wild swimming author and OS Champion Natasha Sones
Join a Women Only Adventure Group
Are you looking to build your confidence in the outdoors but worried you don’t have the right skills, or anyone to come with you? We’ve created a list of lots of the UK’s best Women Only Hiking & Adventure Groups that provide the perfect starting point. These groups offer safe and friendly environments with like minded women of all skill levels looking for outdoor adventures.
Outdoor Therapy for the Mind and Body
Getting outdoors is an important part of keeping your mind and body healthy. We have lots of great resources to help get you motivated to get outside.
How joining a women-only group can help you get outside and meet others
OS Champion Natasha Sones talks about the benefits of joining a female only group to build confidence in the outdoors
Unearthing The Transformative Power of Hiking – Chrissy Raider
Chrissy Raider is a living and breathing advert for getting outside! Her story shows the transformative power of ‘unprocessed exercise’ beyond the confines of the gym.
Understanding the Difference: Women’s vs. Men’s Backpacks
What’s the difference between men and women’s backpacks? – we explore all the design difference and look at plus size backpacks too
What makes you a runner? My experience with Imposter Syndrome in running
What makes you a runner? OS Champion Crystal Silver talks openly about her imposter syndrome in running despite being an experienced marathon and ultra runner
Stepping Out: How Forces Wives Challenge is building Confidence and Community
Forces Wives Challenge walks are more than just exercise; they’re about building friendships, gaining new skills, and experiencing the incredible power of community.
How to Build Outdoor Confidence: A Beginner’s Guide to Getting Outside
GROW YOUR HIKING CONFIDENCE! You don’t need to grow up hiking or arrive with all the gear and knowledge – follow our expert tips
8 tips for getting outside with a baby
GetOutside Champion Suzanne lives on the edge of the Peak District and has been hiking with her five- and one-year-old boys since they were babies. Here are her 8 top tips for getting outside with a baby.
How To Start Wild Swimming
Find out how to start wild swimming safely with advice from wild swimming author and OS Champion Natasha Sones
How nature improves our mental health
Holly Barber from Eco Monkey takes a look at some of the lesser-known ways in which spending time outside in nature can improve our mental health.
The Benefits of Joining a Group
Need Motivation to Get Outside? Find out all the amazing benefits of joining a group to help motivate you to get outside more!
21 Days To Form a Habit
It takes 21 days to form a habit. Ordnance Survey’s very own Liz Beverley had fallen out of love with running
Grow Your Outdoor Confidence
Map reading and navigation are fundamental skills for anyone looking to explore more in the outdoors and it’s not as difficult as you might think. Learning how to read a map (paper or digital) will allow you to discover new places and new adventures. We have all kinds of resources to help build your confidence in the outdoors, from safety tips through to gear guides.
Let’s Get Out There
We’re thrilled to partner with This Girl Can to launch the exciting new campaign, Let’s Get Out There. Our mission is to inspire women from diverse and low-income backgrounds to enjoy more adventures across the UK.
By sharing the inspiring stories of our OS Champions and using our trusted reputation in outdoor adventuring, we’re committed to using our platform to raise the profile of groups and organisations that support women in the outdoors. Together, we can empower more women to explore, discover, and thrive in nature.
Meet our unstoppable Female OS Champions
*data quoted is from Sports England, This Girl Can
