BSES Expeditions
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| Founded | 1932 |
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| Founder | Surgeon Commander George Murray Levick RN |
| Type | Charity |
| Registration no. | 802196 (England and Wales) |
| Focus | Youth development |
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Key people
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Professor David Rhind President |
| Website | www |
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Formerly called
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Public Schools Exploring Society British Schools Exploring Society BSES Expeditions |
The British Exploring Society is a UK-based youth development charity based at the Royal Geographical Society building, aiming to provide young people with an intense and lasting experience of self-discovery in wilderness environments.
The society began as the "Public Schools Exploring Society" in 1932 by Surgeon Commander George Murray Levick RN, who had been a member of Captain Scott's final Antarctic Expedition of 1910-13. It was later renamed the "British Schools Exploring Society", then became BSES Expeditions, before adopting its current name in 2012.
For 80 years, British Exploring has provided the opportunity for young people, aged 16–25 years old, from different schools, universities and many other walks of life to take part in valuable adventure and environmental research projects in challenging areas of the world from the Arctic to the Amazon Rainforest. Led by experts drawn from a host of professions such as universities, teaching and the Services, all the expeditions aim to help in the development of young people through the challenge of living and working in remote and testing areas of the world.
In August 2011, a party of teenagers in Norway was attacked at night by a polar bear leading to the death of a seventeen-year-old boy and injuries to several others. Both the Norwegian authorities and an enquiry by a UK high court judge commissioned by BSES criticized the expedition's defective gun, and inadequate warning arrangements, the judge ruling that the accident was preventable. However, in July 2014, a coroner cleared the BSES of neglect as failure "was not total or complete."
British Exploring is a society which is formed from those who have taken part in a British Exploring expedition. Typically, students aged 16–25 apply to take part in an expedition and are selected by interview. When a British Exploring Explorer successfully completes an expedition, and on the recommendation of the expedition Chief Leader, they are admitted to the society. Society members may vote in the AGM, and help to govern the future of the society. One other way of entering the society is by becoming a leader.
British Exploring is most well known for its expeditions to the Arctic, but has mounted expeditions from the The Amazon, India, Kenya and Papua New Guinea among many others.
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