(At Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club), CEO Cottage By The Sea

 Adam Wake joined Cottage by the Sea in June 2019 after 11 years managing the Lions Village Licola Inc (LVL). Prior to this, Adam held management roles in outdoor education in Australia and internationally.

In addition to a valuable career in outdoor education, Adam holds a law & business degree, has experience in finance as a fund manager and training in mental health first aid, childhood trauma, child protection and a range of professional studies.

His passion has and continues to be working to provide better life opportunities for children.

He found a love of working for children in need when moved from commercially based camp programs to the not for profit sector finding more attention to the individual can be given in a charitable set up.  We find more and more these days that children do not really fit one type or another instead having very specific individual needs.

Adam has a wife and two great kids myself and a taste for outdoor adventure – partly driven out of working with kids:
'We ask them to step outside of their comfort zones in order to grow, so should we.  I competed in some big multi day events – with all my brothers across new Zealand (238km), with his best man 220km running in the Sahara, 222km on my own in the Amazon, and in 2020 a new event called Escape from the Jungle in Belize with my next door neighbour – starting with no food we emerged from the jungle and at the finish line after 5 days 4 hours and 20 mins.  This was just prior to the start of the pandemic'.

M.C.:  President Andrew Crockett