PROTECT OUR WINTERS UK

Protect what you love

The outdoor community is big, beautifully diverse, and inspiring. Time and time again, people use their passion for the outdoors to push the envelope forward. From human performance to equality, when we harness our passions, amazing things can happen.

But there's a hard truth. The places we love to play: the mountains, the slopes, the trails, the woodlands, and the lakes. The places we shred, climb, run, and send it. They are at risk, alongside our people, communities, and wildlife.

Our lush green forests are ablaze; ancient glaciers are evaporating; homes and lives are being destroyed. As I write this, devastating floods are taking place across Pakistan. We are in a climate emergency and the time to act is running out.

If the outdoors community acts as one voice, we can be a hugely influential force. Together, we can help protect the people, places, and things that we love from climate change. It's not too late, but we must act now.

What do we do?

Protect Our Winters UK is an outdoors climate action charity, and we help passionate outdoor people, like you, become effective climate advocates to achieve systemic solutions to climate change.

What do we mean by systemic solutions? We mean renewable energy, electric transportation, green finance, and a managed decline of fossil fuel extraction.

We value progress over perfection and action over apathy. As a human, we all have a carbon footprint. This does not dismiss your voice from fighting for the places you love. Your ability to influence change is greater than your individual footprint.

Act Now

Big ideas start small, and solving the climate crisis is not different. Get started on your journey to climate advocate and stand up for the places you play with these simple actions.

1.Educate Yourself

Dive deeper into the subject, read the news, a book, or listen to a podcast on climate science solutions . Pro-tip, follow us on Instagram for staff picks or enrol in our carbon Literacy Training.

An informed community is better equipped to influence decision makers and make change happen.

2.Speak Out

Normalise conversations about climate change with friends, family, and colleagues, at home, work, or on the slopes or trail.

Put that knowledge to good use!

Vote

Whether it's a general or local election, your vote matters. So when the time comes, stand up for the places you love and vote with climate in mind.

These may seem like small actions, but the outdoors community is vast, made up of backpackers, trailrunners, skiers, climbers, bikers and hikers. Together, this community can accelerate the adoption of systemic policy change.

Want to learn more? Visit https://protectourwinters. uk/take-action-for-individuals and sign up for our newsletter to receive the latest news, updates, and actions straight to your inbox. No fluff or greenwashing.

PRIVATE LESSONS

Build the Skier - Create the Racer

We have a tagline ‘Build The Skier – Create The Racer’ and this is key to improvement as too much time skiing gates will slow progression as the skiers are, in the main, not focussed on their skiing but on such things as completing the course, hitting the gates, or even just staying upright and this is really not the most efficient way to get better.

Effective race training is focussed coaching. Training through poles can be part of it but actually improving skiers takes place outside the poles and mainly on terrain conducive to the trainee/client to build confidence and ensure effective movements. Repetition of effective movements is also important to make any positive change permanent.

This is where our private lessons are useful. Working with one of our expert coaches in a sessions tailored specifically to you.

We can run these at numerous facilities and for between one and four people, adult and children. Usually, with video analysis. The duration can be 2, or 4 hours.

Contact phil@impulse-racing.co.uk to enquire or to book