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Hello and thanks for downloading the Scotland Outdoors podcast. I'm Helen Needham.

This edition is the result of a trip I went on with an organisation here in Scotland

called the Venture Trust. They offer support for people at all stages of their lives who are having difficulties.

And the key is, it happens in the great outdoors.

This is a story about love, one of our fundamental needs, but sometimes it doesn't always come easily.

The scene, a farm hostel high above Aberfeldy with views across the rolling green hills of

Perthshire. Lovely.

Excuse me for a while while I'm wide-eyed and I'm so down caught in the middle.

A group of seven women who all have their own dark and painful stories to bear gather here.

They are offered security and support for five days from five outdoor enthusiasts who work for an organisation called The Venture Trust.

One of them, Joe Greenwayd, explains why the location is so important.

Certainly being in a place where you can see a beautiful spot, that just to inspire people I think so yeah it's definitely

carefully chosen it's a next steps course which venture trust run for women that have various

different needs we've got seven women with us this week it's often just something has happened in their

life that has basically

stopped them being able to move forward and they've got to a junction where they need a bit more

support and this course hopefully helps them put them in situations where they can challenge themselves

again, achieve something and be in a community that's really safe

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