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Hill & Mountain Skills
Have you got the skills yet? Our nationally accredited Hill & Mountain Skills courses for beginner and intermediate walkers were launched at the beginning of April and there are providers all over the UK. Quite a few people have already attended courses so we thought we’d find out what they thought. Colin and Debbie both attended a Mountain Skills course in Snowdonia with RAW...
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Joint Statement from outdoor NGBs
We recognise that when people engage in the outdoors and adventure activities they often do so across a number of different sports. In many cases it is the environment in which they take part that is the motivation and drive to participate, and which inspires life changing habits and personal development. This is backed up by the recent research undertaken by Sport England and the OIA - Getting...
30/08/2016 11:51:09
Leadership Workshops
Transformational leadership; inspire, enable and develop others. Mountain Training will be running a series of leadership workshops around England and Wales this autumn. Leadership is central to all the qualifications that Mountain Training administers and this is a great opportunity to focus on what good leadership really is. The workshops are available to anyone involved with a Mountain...
23/08/2016 09:32:46
Scrambling skills in Scotland
Following the success of some North Wales and Lakes personal scrambling skills days, Alan Halewood got to work and organised similar for members in Scotland. So on Saturday the 23rd of July Jim Sutherland nineonesix-guiding provided the first of what we hope will be more, Mountain Training Association Continued Personal Development days based in the North West Highlands of Scotland. The purpose...
04/08/2016 16:04:21
BMC & MCofS rebrand
The two representative bodies for walkers, climbers and mountaineers in England, Scotland and Wales have both decided to change their names. The BMC, which covers England and Wales, will become Climb Britain , whilst the Mountaineering Council of Scotland (MCofS) will become Mountaineering Scotland . Climb hills / climb rocks / climb indoors / climb ice / climb mountains TODAY one of...
25/07/2016 10:28:01
BMC Equity Symposium
The BMC's Equity Symposium is to be held at YHA Llanberis from Friday 30th September to Sunday 2nd October 2016. This year’s symposium aims to give outdoor activity providers an in depth understanding of the barriers faced by black, asian and minority ethnic (BAME) communities when getting active outdoors. The BAME population in the UK is growing. According to the 2011 Census 14% of the UK...
19/07/2016 13:14:27
WomenOutdoors Week
Have you got a Mountain Training qualification? Would you be prepared to have an aspiring female instructor observe you for a day? Or are you working your way through a scheme and in need of some new ideas? The aim of #WomenOutdoors week is to boost female participation in outdoor activities and in order to sustain it, we need more females with qualifications. So this is the perfect opportunity...
20/06/2016 14:51:17