Trailblazers!
Trailblazers - Aotearoa’s first national youth MTB camp!
14-18 December 2022
This 5 day camp is designed for 20 young people from anywhere around NZ age 14-17 years old that love mountain biking and have a passion for sharing their stoke with the community. We'll come together with the experienced WORD instructor team in the Whakarewarewa Forest, Rotorua developing leadership skills through MTB instruction and personal riding skills.
Riders will have an opportunity to teach and lead their peers in a fun and supportive mountain bike setting, rad!!! Nights will be filled with cooking kai together, goal setting, and team games before going to sleep in tents!
At the end of the 5 day camp, riders will leave with more self confidence, amazing new friendships, and heaps of practical leadership skills to take back to their communities.
Applications
Applications are now OPEN!
Yay! We would love for you to join us! Since we had to postpone our original date in 2021, there were a few young people that could not join us due to other commitments. That means…. we have 10 spots open (including 5 ‘fees FREE’ spots). These 10 places will be chosen through an online application process which opens mid October and closes 2 November.
We're keen to have a diverse group of young people from across the country who love riding bikes...
Thanks for your help!
Fundraising campaign now complete! $5300 raised!!!
We're keen to help reduce the financial barriers for young people to attend Trailblazers. Costs of camp is $500 per person....so if we raise $5000 we'll help 10 young people (?!) attend camp that would otherwise not be able to. This fundraising campaign will cover all the camp costs including accommodation, food, amazing camp instructors and MTB shuttles.
Thanks to your generous support we raised $5300 using the new SportNZ fundraising platform: BoostedSport!
Know a young Trailblazer that could benefit from a 'fees free'? Fab! Applications are now open- see below for more details.
Matched Us!
Yay for Yeti Bikes
We are stoked to have the great folks at Yeti match dollar for dollar up to the first $1000 donated for our Fundraising Campaign!! Yep, that's right...every dollar you donate to Trailblazers gets matched by Yeti Bikes NZ, whoa!
Love your work Yeti Bikes, thanks heaps!!!!
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