Private trips for clubs and teams
A private trip or challenge run for your club alone. Your members, your dates, one booking. We plan it, we lead it, and we carry the risk.
Enquire about a club tripYou have thirty or forty members who all enter the same races as everyone else, and you would like to put on one weekend they are still talking about next year.
You have priced up minibuses at eleven at night. You have chased a bunkhouse for a deposit. You have built a spreadsheet nobody else opens.
You are the one who organises, which means you are the one who gets blamed when the pub is shut or the route is too hard for half the group.
And if something goes wrong on a mountain, it is your name on it. That is the part nobody says out loud.
Three formats
Every club trip is built from scratch, but they tend to land in one of three shapes. The prices below are the same rates your members would pay booking one of our public trips.
One hard objective with a clear finish line, run for your club and nobody else. Everyone starts together, everyone is measured against the same day.
The Welsh 3000s is the benchmark: fifteen peaks, forty-five kilometres, 3,800 metres of ascent, every summit above three thousand feet.
A challenge with the evening attached. Two or three mountain days, somewhere to sleep, and a long night in a pub where your members get to know each other properly.
Peak District, Snowdonia or the Lake District, chosen around how far your club is willing to travel on a Friday night.
More than one region, more than one discipline, and at least one night under canvas. Wild camps, long days, and the kind of week that becomes the thing your club plans the next year around.
Scottish Highlands or the Alps. This is the format that changes what a club thinks it is capable of.
Something else in mind? Most club trips start as a blank page. If you have an idea that does not fit any of the three, tell us and we will price it.
What it costs
Your members pay what anyone else pays. Going private does not cost your club a premium, because a club booking fills the trip in one go and that is worth more to us than a higher price.
Then, for every place your club books, £25 goes into a club fund. Kit, race entries, a coach over the winter, or quietly covering a place for a member who cannot stretch to it. That is your call.
The fund goes to the club, not to the person doing the organising. It is paid once the trip has run, and we will happily put it in writing for your committee.
How it works
Who you are, roughly how many of you, and what you think your members can handle. The enquiry form at the bottom of this page asks the two questions that matter.
A specific objective, specific dates, a price per person and an honest read on whether your group is ready for it. If we think you should do something else first, we will say so.
The club deposit holds the date and the instructors. It is non-refundable. From that point your members book and pay for their own places, so you are not chasing anyone for money.
Permits, accommodation, transport, instructors, route planning, risk assessments, insurance, kit lists and the training advice your members will ask you for.
On the day, your only job is to be there. If the weather turns and the plan has to change, that decision is ours to make and ours to carry.
Trips we have already run
Four real trips, written up properly so you can forward one to a committee without having to explain it yourself.
The Test
June 2026 · Snowdonia
Fifteen summits, forty-five kilometres and 3,800 metres of climbing, done as one continuous push. Twelve people started. The group was vetted in advance, which is the only reason a day like that works: everyone on the hill could hold the pace, so nobody spent the day being waited for or being dragged along. Two nights either side, one in Snowdonia before and one after, and the whole thing was over by Sunday evening.
The Expedition
August 2026 · Scottish Highlands
Eight days moving north through five regions of the Highlands. Mountain days in Glencoe, the Old Man of Storr and the Quiraing on Skye, wild camping, sea kayaking, trail running, and a whisky in Oban at the end of it. Six people, sold out, and it rained enough that the group photo from day four is a wet selfie in a river valley. That trip is the reason we now run the format again every August.
The Weekender
August 2026 · Stubai Valley, Austria
A social trip rather than a challenge, and the best example of how a mixed-ability group can still travel together. Each morning people chose their day: hiking, climbing, mountain biking, or nothing at all. Every evening the whole group ate together. Ten people booked, it sold out, and nobody spent a day doing something they were not fit enough to enjoy. This is the shape we would suggest for a club where the fitness spread is wide.
The corporate variant
North Yorkshire Moors
Fifty senior people spread across the UK who, before this, had only ever met each other in a meeting or on a call. We ran two three-day programmes in the North Yorkshire Moors, twenty-five on each. Group walks on the moor, a day underground caving, and long evenings with nothing scheduled. It set the template for every corporate programme we have run since, and the mechanics are identical to a club booking: one buyer, one date, one group.
Every Jove trip is led by qualified, carded and insured instructors. We set the group sizes and the instructor numbers around the terrain and the ability of the group, not around what is cheapest to staff. Route plans, risk assessments and weather calls are ours.
Freddie, who founded Jove Club, spent six years as a Royal Marines officer leading people in some of the world's hardest environments, and still leads on the hill himself. Jove Club is a registered UK company, fully insured, and we will send your committee everything they need to sign it off.
You are handing over the responsibility. That is the point of doing it this way.
Enquire
The last two questions are the ones that matter. We would rather know now that half your members have never walked up a hill than find out on a ridge in the rain.