Tim Marchinton - Director

Tim loves sharing adventure with young people and believes in the magic of (ABEL) Adventure Based Experiential Learning in a camp environment!

His natural ability with children is captivating. He has delivered programs in 35 countries and held recreation management positions in varied locales including Canadian ski resorts, Whitsunday Islands and an Irish castle. He found himself travelling worldwide within the camping industry and began to focus his career on seriously ill children

He co-founded Purple Soup in 2002 in order to provide challenging activity based programs for children affected by serious illness and their families. These programs are designed to rebuild confidence, self esteem, trust and courage, in a safe, fun and supportive environment. In Purple Soup he delivers adaptive adventure programs and creates amazing theme days for "time out" programs.

Tim holds a BA in Recreation Management is often engaged as a consultant and trainer in corporate adventure based team development with some of Australia's leading companies.

He is terrified of even the smallest spiders!