This was a joint project of The Jets Project from Swords Youth Service and The EFFORT Project from Finglas Youth Service. Both projects are based in Dublin, Ireland and are managed by Crosscare. Our partner project is Duke of Edinburgh awards in the United Kingdom. They, along with an affiliated group based in Belfast (Cherry, Aspen and Chestnut Association) co-ordinated to meet us in Keswick on the evening of October 25th 2015. The Duke of Edinburgh awards brought along a number of young people from their affiliated group in Belfast as they were working towards the Duke of Edinburgh awards, equivalent of the Irish Gaisce awards. The Irish Groups travelled by mini-bus from Dublin to Belfast on the 25th of October 2015, where we sailed from Larne Belfast to Cairnryan Scotland. We then drove to the YHA Hostel Ambleside in Keswick that is located in the Lake District. We stayed there for five nights with our UK and Belfast counterparts. We departed from Keswick on the 30th of October and drove to Liverpool where stayed for one night. On the 31st of October we drove from Liverpool to Holyhead to catch the evening ferry back to Dublin. Both Irish groups are Garda Youth Diversion Projects who are community based projects which seek to divert young people aged 12 to 18 years old, who are involved, or at risk of becoming involved, in the Criminal Justice System. These projects aim to involve young people in suitable activities to facilitate personal development, encourage civic responsibility and improve their long-term employability prospects. It is within this context that the young people involved with this project are taking part in the President's Award-Gaisce, which is Ireland's National Challenge Award for young people. To complete the Award the young people must complete four tasks, (5 for participants challenging for the Gold award) Each of the young people have taken on various tasks in the Personal Skill, Community Involvement and Physical Recreation part of the Award. It is the Adventure Journey activity which the young people completed during this exchange in October 2015. There is an added Residential activity for the Gold Participants in which the participants must complete a shared activity with a group in a residential setting for 5 days and 4 nights. The groups walked in the lake district for a total of 90kms over four consecutive days of the exchange with a minimum of 20km per day for which they have been training weekly since the beginning of 2015. Other activities undertaken including Ghyll scrambling, visit to Blackpool Pleasure Beach, visit to the Keswick Illusion Museum and swimming. The Youth Exchange was evaluated daily by dividing into small groups and reflecting on the activities of that particular day. This was done through brainstorming, discussing what they thought about the days activities, what they learned and how they felt during that days activities. Each meber of the exchange also filled in their Youht Pass, documenting their learning for that day. The groups were all brought back together each evening for feedback and discussion with the larger group. Youth Workers met every night in order to discuss any pertinent issues that may have arisen on that day. A final evaluation session for all the young people took place on the last day of the exchange in the Lake District . We assessed how objectives of the exchange were met, and discussed a possible plan for a reciprocal exchange with our UK partners. In the week following the exchange, the Finglas and Swords groups came together again to evaluate the entire exchange.