The founder of charity Snow-Camp, which helps young people get jobs in winter sports, on why skiing transforms lives
Dan Charlish got the idea to start a programme teaching disadvantaged young people how to ski and snowboard in 2003, when he was running a youth group at a church in Stockwell, south London. He overheard a group of young people playing an X-Box snowsports game saying this was the closest they would ever get to winter sports.
“Their perception of snowsports was quite accurate in that it was something, at that time, they were never going to be able to do for real,” says Charlish. “They were at a high risk of being dragged into things they didn’t want to do and our job as youth workers was to provide an alternative.”
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