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Fantastic opportunity to join our amazing team is available ( Closing date: 16th June @5pm) Contract 15 hours per week, very flexible...

Over two days at Benny Beg in Perthshire, the Urban Uprising community collectively climbed the equivalent height of Everest (8,849...

Urban Uprising aims to elevate and inspire young people through climbing. We think that the physical and mental challenges that climbing...

The young people participating in Urban Uprising programmes develop a whole range of skills over their ten weeks of indoor climbing....

It is hard to understate how much has been written about the life lessons imparted by the fear and hardship experienced in the mountains....

In 2023 one of our groups came from a partnership with The Prince’s Trust and Glasgow Clyde College. Abbie did our Climb programme as...

As Urban Uprising celebrates 10 years of introducing disadvantaged young people to the physical and mental benefits of climbing with an...

‘Being employed by a small outdoor charity myself, the fantastic work Urban Uprising does with people in our very own community and, of...

Climbing Upwards is a short documentary about a group of young people who face various challenges in life that take part in our Climb...

Urban Uprising is celebrating it's 10th anniversary this summer. To mark the occasion a group of staff, volunteers, trustees and...

Who we are: At Urban Uprising, our goal is to use our unique programme to give 8-18-year-olds, who face various challenges in life, the...

Who we are: At Urban Uprising, our goal is to use our unique programme to give 8-18-year- olds, who face various challenges in life, the...

APPLICATIONS NOW CLOSED. Urban Uprising is getting bigger and better! Would you like to help shape the future of an exciting growing...

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I’ve been a climber since I was a teenager. Coming from a background in dance and gymnastics, using my whole body in a way that requires...

Urban Uprising has won a place on Scale Accelerator, a programme which helps charities and social enterprises to make an even greater impact

Since the pandemic, restrictions meant that we had to stop working with our groups. As has been the case with many people, the mental...

The North Face sponsors Urban Uprising

By this point of lockdown, if you are mainly an indoor climber, it's good to remember outdoor climbing and walking opportunities

Under the dark cloud of COVID-19, opportunities for positive change are emerging. What would you like to see changed in our society?