Bristol Inclusive Climbing
Bristol Inclusive Climbing is a charity that provides young people with disabilities the chance to participate in regular 1:1 rock climbing sessions to increase well-being, confidence, and self-esteem.
Working with passionate volunteers, we remove barriers between young people and climbing.
We run sessions every week in the same location, providing a consistent and predictable experience.
Learn more about about how we’re structured below…
Our sessions
Our team of friendly volunteers are well equipped to support younger people with disabilities and impairments. We’re able to ensure 1:1 support in our sessions as default and can up the volunteers depending on the needs of the young person. This means we can be super flexible with the people we work with.
No matter what the situation, get in touch and we’re confident we’ll be able to help one way or another.
![🧡 Throwing back on a Thursday 🧡
Our lovely Joe played photographer a few weeks back and took these fab pics!
📸 They definitely couldn’t be missed off the feed 📸
What do you think of them?](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb8c5e0d7819e710f242614/1725570900222-0VQX6B1C2YDEWYSU3R2U/image-asset.jpeg)
![🤸🏼‍♀️ Meet our Members🤸🏼‍♀️
Name: Anna
Age: 23
🧗🏼‍♀️Favourite type of climbing? 🧗🏼‍♀️
Rope and lead climbing! You’ll find me on anything with nice small crimpy holds!!
🕒 How long have you been climbing and what ma](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb8c5e0d7819e710f242614/1725387165244-YXR4WM001U5OX1R7K7PL/image-asset.jpeg)
![🧡Another Thriving Thursday Session🧡
It was great to see so many familiar faces at this session!
🧗‍♂️Everyone was looking extra strong.. 🧗🏽‍♀️
..maybe because they were fuelled by Emily’s delicious cake? 😍 (Thank you Emily!)](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb8c5e0d7819e710f242614/1724961336347-T6EGV5U9OAJNUYOOLQMQ/image-asset.jpeg)
![WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES BIC REALLY MAKE?
🧡 Our friends over at @access_sportuk commissioned the University of Bath to explore how grassroots sport clubs can provide young people with a sense of belonging and strengthen communities.🧡
Here’s wh](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb8c5e0d7819e710f242614/1724359060817-IVEDO35VVWJO4XQ9LN92/image-asset.jpeg)
![We recently hosted Ella’s last ever BIC session!
Ella’s been regularly climbing with us for almost 6 years and we’ve had the privilege of getting to know her whole family in that time!
They’ve been a pivotal part of our co](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb8c5e0d7819e710f242614/1723644940707-9110UTMDBBIE244FC30H/image-asset.jpeg)
![🧗🏼‍♀️VOLUNTEER TRAINING DAY 🧗🏼‍♀️
Thank you so much to everyone who took part in our latest training day - we loved showing you the ropes 😉
❓ If you have any questions that you didn’t get the chance to ask us, feel free to DM us](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb8c5e0d7819e710f242614/1720134433643-8QWKVCNGR9J8UDE6HSE6/image-asset.jpeg)
![🤸🏼‍♂️ Meet our Members 🤸🏼‍♂️
Name: Jordan
Age: 36
🧗🏼‍♀️Favourite type of climbing? 🧗🏼‍♀️
Picnic climbing (a term I invented). This is any climbing experience which revolves around having a picnic + cup of tea with friends](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb8c5e0d7819e710f242614/1719398196864-QVC5FEKJWQYRKR2CZZMT/image-asset.jpeg)
![🤸🏼‍♀️ Meet our Members🤸🏼‍♀️
Name: Marly
Age: 28
🧗🏼‍♀️Favourite type of climbing? 🧗🏼‍♀️
All time favourites is lead climbing on a straight, crimpy wall in a sunny crag!
🕒 How long have you been climbing and what made you](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb8c5e0d7819e710f242614/1718137092467-CRE0B8ZARELQNBKURR0X/image-asset.jpeg)
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🧡 OUR LAST SESSION FOR A MONTH 🧡
🌞 Thanks everyone for such a fun last session before our summer break! 🌞
We will miss you all... 🥹
📝 Whilst our volunteers are having a well deserved break we will be busy refining some of the BIC manageme](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb8c5e0d7819e710f242614/1717756292853-DK1LUJVMVTKP2DO7D5CF/image-asset.jpeg)
Our Volunteers
We wouldn’t be able to make our roped climbing sessions work without the help from our volunteers.
We have a group of like-minded, experienced, enthusiastic people from Bristol and the surrounding areas. They’re all passionate about sharing the benefits of climbing and enriching our community.
All of them have been trained to ensure we all stay safe on the wall and have fun along the way.
We’re always training up new volunteers to help us grow.
Check out our volunteering page for information about the people doing the real hard work and to join the team if you’re interested.
We depend on donations to keep things going. If you want to support the work we do consider donating using the button below.