gocountry About Us

Established on 2002, gocountry was constituted as a Charity in September 2002 and registered as a company limited by guarantee in July 2005. gocountry is fully bonded with the Adventure Activities Licensing Authority to provide a number of snow, surf and mountain outdoor activities.

The management of gocountry is regulated by the voluntary Board of Directors:
John Marletta - Chairperson of the Board
Paul Devlin - Board Member
Francis Kiernan - Board Member
Lorna Judge - Board Member and Treasurer
Ian Henderson - Board Member

Members:
Liz Thomas MBE - Honorary Board Member
Alison Greig BA Business Admin - Advisory Board Member

Management Team:
Jim Greig ML, SPA - Counsellor, Assessor / Verifier, Special Training / Educational Tutor
Founder of gocountry and Project Manager
Ron Campbell MI Prod.E, CIM, MIE, ISIA - Business Development Manager
Elizabeth Douglas - HND Business Admin, BA HR Management - Office Manager

Our Mission, Vision and Values

Mission
To provide a safe and fun outdoor adventure experience that will enhance and improve the awareness, confidence and ability of young people that find themselves disadvantaged in society, to instil in them the ability to harmonise and interact positively with there environment and other people To sustain gocountry as a viable provider/partner and enable it to generate adequate surplus to meet future challenges and endeavours.

Vision
To create an ‘Outdoor Centre’ in the West of Scotland delivering a range of modern outdoor activity ‘Offerings’ and ‘Core skills’ training and accreditation. To forge strategic alliances with other like social/commercial/outdoor sport enterprises that will enable us to increase our impact and derive economies of scale that will enable us to expand and promote our core activities.To develop a marketing profile to promote ‘Outdoor Sports Activities’ Internationally both, inbound and outbound to suit disadvantaged and other social group that can participate in exchange schemes and establish and utilise our ‘Outdoor Centre of Excellence and Field Camp resources’.

Make a Donation
Thank you for considering supporting our charity work at go country by making a donation to our youth support programmes. A regular monthly contribution or a single donation will help us to reach out to disadvantaged people living in isolation or in poor circumstances around the West/Central Scotland it will help us to deliver our Outdoor Activity Program on a 1-2-1 and group basis. This Outdoor Activity support work with drug / alcoholic addicts, mentally and physically disabled people, youngster and their families from data zone areas can make a significant difference to their aspirations and attitude.

By becoming a regular donor you will help us reach more and more gocountry people hidden in communities across Scotland. For every pound you give us the Chancellor of the Exchequer has promised us an extra 28pence through his Gift Aid Scheme - at no expense to you!

Become a Fundraiser
gocountry Scotland Needs You!

It might sound a bit of a cliché but it is true. We need people just like you to help us raise funds so that we can continue to work towards reaching as many disadvantaged groups across West/Central Scotland. We want to make sure that no matter where they live, they are given the best chance in life to ‘participate and enjoy an outdoor adventure experience’ to be themselves and harmonise with the outdoor challenges that Scotland has to offer, to ultimately contribute positively to their communities.

You can help us achieve this - you can be a young person, or an older person, parents, grandparents, captains of industry, businesses and organisations.

How? Well you can think up any idea where people will sponsor you, things like:

Take part in our ‘Robbie’s Challenge’
Climb a Mountain
Gorgeing for Groups
Weaseling and Bouldering for the faint hearted
William Tell archery competition
Paddling the big Lochs
Muddy Boots – Take a Hike
A corporate Jamboree and Barbecue
Abseil down a ‘Big Building’ or ‘Touch the Void and Tell’
Group Bungee Jump – sponsor the bosses for the ‘big jump’, ‘deep water’ or ‘shit creek’ - the ultimate white water rafting and rib boat experience.
Run a race, take part in a sponsored Walking Trek or Bike Trak
Organise your own event, such as a pub quiz
Sell things on EBay and donate the proceeds to us
Happy Birthday - ask your friends to give to us, instead of buying presents.

We would like to help you promote any fundraising you are doing so email us at info@gocountry.co.uk and tell us about what you are doing.

In return we will tell you what difference your funds are making to go country disadvantaged groups in Scotland.

If you have raised funds or have a donation and want to send these in you can: send us a cheque - made payable to gocountry.

We really do appreciate your support.

If you require further information on gocountry - Annual Report and Prospectus, Annual accounts or Staff and Sessional Team profiles or Risk Assessments, please contact us.

Employment - gocountry currently has many vacancies and employment opportunities. If you think you have the skills and experience please ask for our job application pack.