Our History

Celebrating 40 years

Co-founder Nav headline speaker at the Blue Earth Summit

Boots & Beards Scooped the Pride of Scotland Award

Boots & Beards Co-founder Joins Board of Loch Lomond & Trossachs National Park

Team B&B scoop the Community Champions 2021 award

Joint event with RSPB

Team B&B chat to JMT staff re diversity and inclusion

A spectacular event jointly organised by Loch Lomond National Park, Scottish Forestry and Friends of Loch Lomond

National campaign launched by Boots & Beards

Core volunteers complete outdoor navigation course

Sessions resume post pandemic

Article on Boots & Beards

Feature piece on Nav, co-founder

Sky News morning show feature

Featured in The Guardian

Featuring Saira Ali

Article on diversity in the outdoors

Dedicated programme for women launched

Womens only programme - sold out

National campaign with Columbia

"Walk this way. Outdoor activities have long been thought "white" – a group of Scots is changing that."

"Joint programme with Colourful Heritage - reminder regarding the 9 members of Force K6 "

Kash Butt sits down with Coach Magazine

Duke of Edinburgh

Participants completed the marathon in Paisley

Over 50 people participated from Team Boots & Beards

A weekend away to Glenmore Lodge, Aviemore. Great to see so many people come out to experience the wide variety of activities. Abseiling, Canoeing, Hillwalking, Mountain biking, Archery, Orienteering Indoor and Outdoor climbing.

Bronze Scheme Practise Day One

Team Scotland undertake the challenge

Prime Minister writes to Boots & Beards

Freshers week setup at Strathclyde University

Joint event held in partnership with Penny Appeal

Fishing sessions led by volunteer Ifty Ahmed

Team of 40+ accept the ultimate challenge

First BME group in Scotland to be awarded a BME license

Group of 15 participants head over to Spain for a weekend of exploration and discovery

Easter programme for kids in partnership with Soulriders

Navigation course training on the hills with Mountaineering Scotland

Branching out on our health driven activities with the help of our partners. We now have some competent climbers who can lead some training sessions for others.

After it's successful launch for our mens group, we launch a dedicated programme for Women

We are presented with the Impact in Health award

We successfully gain charity status.

A dedicated group for women is born - Bonnie Boots.

Our first major partnership with an international charity, leading a group of people to various sites in Belfast, Ireland.

Major shift into the health arena after noticing the trends within our community. A sold out Bootcamp with over 20 participants over a 10 week programme.

Our first step into international territory

Organising and leading a group of 20 children who demonstrate their creative side in an outdoor environment.

Our setup at the Skills for Hills event in Glasgow

Participants handed over their certificates on successful completion over a six month period.

Presented with the Volunteer Community Chamption 2016-17 Award.

Group of 24 people visit Balmoral for an overnight stay with prime focus on outdoor activities

Volunteers successfully complete First Aid Training, courtesy of Forestry Commission Scotland.

Set up and coordinate activities for kids in an outdoor based environment.

Completion of 8 month Volunteer Community Champion skills course.

"Birthdays, weddings, eid or sadly funerals - this is where the extended family would gather. With minimal social interaction amongst the young ones in this ever challenging digital era, something had to be done. Coupled with the Kash, one of the co-founders who had an unwelcomed illness which had rendered him incapacitated and confined to the bed for six months in 2013. With rehabilitation and a new outlook on life the opportunity had arisen for a walking group to be established for like-minded people in the community to better their lives and that of the next generation - 2016 was the year of Boots & Beards. "