Hello! We are the Meek family. We go on adventures together, give talks about family adventuring, share ideas and write books that hopefully help others to do the same, and we’re even doing our bit to help save the planet!. Get to know us a bit here.

 Use the links below to find ideas for family adventures, or get in touch – we’d love to hear from you. Or fill in our Family Life survey and check out our Downloads before you go.

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LATEST POSTS

Clear Plastic Bottles – the Running Total

65, 590 pieces of plastic litter picked up to date! We're aiming to pick up 100,000 plastic bottles, lids, cups, straws (and microplastics) from all around the globe - beaches, forests, road-sides, anywhere we find…
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Family Mountain Biking Part 2 – A three-in-one adventure

Our aim for the day was to enjoy an adventure that had some variety: cycling, scrambling and running, but we didn’t want each of the legs to be too demanding (we are not gnarly adventurers…
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Family Campers

Nights away from home - our preferred way to spend time in the outdoors is under canvas.
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Family Mountain Biking Part 1 – Nice and Flat

Mountain Biking can be a great way to get the whole family enjoying the outdoors. Yet as a beginner, and for families with young children, it can be a challenge to work your way into…
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2018 the year of the hostel

Winter is a time when it would be easy to tuck yourself away and hibernate until the weather gets warmer and days longer but why wait? Why not get out and enjoy the fresh winter…
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New Year get-away #hiberNAY

Why we don't set New Year Resolutions but instead set New Year Intentions. What's the difference? Well, probably not much, but to us the word 'resolution' seems to relate to changing something negative ( a…
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Gotta Get-away #hiberNAY

Escaping bricks and mortar (if only for one night) Since our return to normality (boo), we've spent way too much time indoors. OK, we've been getting out as much as we can - cycling and…
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Children in Need Pop up cafe

Blacks are sponsoring Children in Need this year and this is a charity that we regularly support and try to fundraise for. Therefore it made sense as Blacks family ambassadors that we don our Pudsey…
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Celebrating Going Outdoors – sponsored post

We’ve been a family who love the outdoors for a few years now, and we are constantly striving to spend as much time together outside as we can, regardless of the time of year, season…
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Rambling to raise awareness

Last weekend (Saturday 14th and Sunday 15th October) were the official days for the BBC Countryfile Ramble for Children in Need – a charity event that encouraged us to get outside and walk in the…
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Adventuring with Kids – 3 of 3 – Optimum time?

Part of being a parent involves making sacrifices. Life changes after children and some people embrace it better than others. We weren't particularly adventurous before we had children but when the girls arrived we wanted…
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Adventuring with Kids – 2 of 3 – Simplifying adventures

Stealing Ideas We are avid magpies – stealing ideas from other adventurers and making them our own. All of us seek inspiration and we have many inspiring adventurers that we turn to for ideas, e.g.…
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Kärcher Mobile Outdoor Cleaner: sponsored post

A review of the Kärcher OC3 Portable Cleaner - a handy addition to an outdoorsy person's toolkit.
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Adventuring with kids – 1 of 3 – the early years

Adventure doesn't have to stop when you have kids. It might just have to be a little different!
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9 & 10. Sailing and Windsurfing

It was with excitement and anticipation that we parked-up by the side of an idyllically located sailing lake ready to sail, windsurf and of course, camp.
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Pump up the Fun

3, 2, 1 GO!! The crowd cheered as another group crossed the start line. We were amongst them, a family of 4, surrounded by men, women and children of all ages and sizes, dressed in…
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8. Cycling

Our latest basecamp family adventure was cycling in the forest. Road cycling has never appealed as much since we like to appreciate the environment and escape into nature plus there are no vehicles to content…
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Five ways to make a weekend outdoorsy

As a family that love to spend time in the outdoors we're always looking for places, new and old, to visit and activities to do. So on a recent trip to North Wales we went…
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7. Gorge Walking

Project BaseCamp, for us, is all about finding a balance between work and play (or family adventure time as we call it); looking for opportunities to get outside and enjoy the outdoors. This week we…
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Get Outside: whatever the Weather

Ella woke us up early this morning for an adventure; not the usual bleary-eyed girl we see during the week but one with a sparkle in her eyes as she was keen to get us…
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