About us
Mountain Training UK & Ireland administers six qualifications and is also the coordinating body for all of the national Mountain Training organisations of the UK and Ireland.
Mountain Training UK & Ireland's qualifications are:
- Foundation Coach
- Development Coach
- Performance Coach
- International Mountain Leader
- Mountaineering and Climbing Instructor
- Winter Mountaineering and Climbing Instructor
Mountain Training UK & Ireland also coordinates the shared objectives of the national Mountain Training organisations (Board Ireland, Cymru, England, Scotland). Its areas of work include:
- Development and management of the Mountain Training website and Candidate Management System.
- Liaison with Government and other external bodies.
- Creation of the official handbooks of the schemes.
- Development of the Mountain Training Association (MTA).
- Providing services for the Association of Mountaineering Instructors (AMI), British Association of International Mountain Leaders (BAIML) and the British Mountain Guides (BMG).
Staff team
Council of members
Directors
Steve Davies- Chair & Trustee
Steve is an accomplished Expedition Leader taking people on adventures around the world. With a robust background in trekking at altitude, and through jungles, and deserts, he has led over forty overseas expeditions spanning six continents.
Since 2015 he has volunteered with BAIML, serving as Finance Director and Chair overseeing finance, insurance, legal and commercial matters. He has also represented BAIML at MTUKI and UIMLA and led various projects including corporate strategy development, revising the Articles of Association, financial forecasting, risk management, and contracts development and negotiation. He also volunteers as a Community First Responder with the North West Ambulance Service.
His professional career includes 33 years in the nuclear industry where he held diverse roles, culminating in Head of Business Management and Capability, and Head of Profession (IT) using his skills in budgeting, financial control, commercial matters, job evaluation frameworks, employee grading criteria, long-term strategic planning, and navigating complex business challenges.
Steve began his career as a Civil Engineer and then transitioned to post-graduate research, and teaching, project management and engineering economics.
Beyond his professional pursuits, Steve enjoys photography, food, and wine. He is married to Fiona, since 1978. They have two grown-up daughters and a cat.
Sean Wood
I worked within the adventure sports sector for several years, including completing a foundation degree in Adventure sports and management before making the transition to Olympic sports with British Athletics and further onto Cricket with the England and Wales Cricket Board. I still enjoy climbing and hill walking recreationally and regularly spend time in the hills with friends. Alongside my work, I am also
a trustee of the Beaudesert Activity Centre and spend time leading scout groups.
Kevin Redmond- Treasurer & Trustee
I have a keen interest in the mountains and mountaineering. I have volunteered as treasurer for my mountaineering club and that lead me to stand for the role of treasurer at MTUKI.
I am a qualified ACCA accountant with over 20 years’ experience working in international development. I have experience working at head office level supporting overseas offices and running the UK operation.
I have also worked overseas as Head of Finance in the UK, Sierra Leone, Ethiopia and Myanmar. As well as five months working on the Ebola emergency response. I have to offer a good mix of the hard skills needed from working as an accountant in the charity sector for 20 years along with a passion for the mountains and a motivation to give something back to the mountaineering community.
Lucy Vincent
Lucy has over 20 years’ experience in the not for profit sector having worked as Director of Marketing for the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust, Dogs for Good and Adoption UK. She headed up large teams at Natural England and the Audit Commission. In the former, she developed the Countryside Code for England and Wales, two new national parks for England and the communications surrounding new laws regarding “open access” land.
Her management of press and media teams includes crisis management from avian influenzas to fire strikes (Director of Communications at Warwickshire County Council). She’s campaigned on Severn tidal flow and a variety of conservation and recreational access issues as well as producing and appearing in BBC radio programmes from Madagascar and the Philippines.
Lucy studied a Master’s Degree in Marketing at Kingston University and Public Sector management at the University of Birmingham.
In her spare time Lucy enjoys rock climbing and mountaineering and has travelled to mountains and for adventures worldwide. She believes firmly in developing her skills and enabling others to enjoy the outside too and so has obtained her Rock Climbing Instructor and Mountain Leader qualifications and has just completed the International Mountain Leader scheme.
Lucy’s ambition with Mountain Training United Kingdom and Ireland is to ensure that the needs of people with disabilities and women and girls are considered and that as many people as possible are given the confidence and access to develop their mountain skills.
Lynn Robinson- Trustee
Lynn has recently retired after working for the NHS for over 35 years. She trained as a Nurse and then Social Worker. She has worked in Health Promotion, Public Health and wide ranging NHS management positions, latterly working on the COVID-19 vaccination programme.
Lynn has combined her paid work with extensive voluntary work throughout her life, mainly volunteering with various health charities abroad and in the UK with the British Mountaineering Council (BMC). The BMC journey ran from student club work, through Peak Local Area secretary, to co-editor of Froggatt to Black Rocks, a Guidebook Committee member, Women’s Development Work, Vice President, and then in 2018 elected as the first female President of the BMC, including excellent links with Mountain Training and strongly supported their work.
Lynn regularly mountaineers, hill-walks and climbs, across the UK. She regularly indoor climbs, taking part in local bouldering competitions. On a wider scale she has mountaineered around the world, including Nepal, Ecuador, Egypt, Africa, Caucasus, North and South America and The Alps. Highlights include trad rock new routing and exploration in Sinai, big walling in Yosemite and completing both the Cuillin Ridge traverse and Lake District four 3,000’ peaks in under 24-hours.
Graham Hassall- Trustee
Graham or ‘Sven’ as he is universally known, has been a devoted mountaineer and climber committed to the Mountain Training pathway for 20 years. His professional background is a blend of climbing wall management, talent development, training design, and complex project management, specialising in problem analysis and strategic planning. Sven is currently the performance director and training centre manager for a large organisation with activities across the UK, Alps and greater ranges. A qualified coach, MCI and BA (Hons) in Leadership (Outdoors), Sven is currently studying a professional doctorate in Elite Performance.
Richard Chapman- Trustee
A Cornishman living in Nottinghamshire, Richard learned to climb on the granite sea cliffs of West Penwith in the mid-1980s. After living in Leeds to study and a 10-year corporate career, he has been a management consultant since 2006, specialising in innovation, strategy and change. He has worked internationally with some of the largest firms in the world, while raising a family and continuing to climb, ride, paddle and race.
He has also represented England at Touch Rugby, winning a silver medal at the 2014 European Championships for the men's over 40s team. More recently, he has been developing and delivering a climbing course with therapeutic benefit for people living with severe mental illness under NHS England's Green Social Prescribing program. He is currently consolidating his Mountain Leader training.
Richard Tiplady- Trustee
Originally from Yorkshire, Richard spent almost 20 years in senior management in not for profit organisations, including 13 years as CEO in 2 different charities. Much of this work was for NGOs, and his work took him to countries as varied as Albania, Nigeria, South Africa, Egypt, Russia, Pakistan and Afghanistan. He has an MSc in charity management, and his doctoral thesis focused on the development of entrepreneurial and innovative leadership in charities and social enterprises. He now works as a lecturer and course director in leadership development.
He is an experienced Munroist and lives near Glasgow with his wife Irene. They have an adult son who lives near Manchester and a young foster child. They are members of Glasgow Climbing Centre. Richard runs night navigation courses in the Ochil Hills near Stirling, and did his Mountain Leader training after increasing requests from others for instruction, guidance or support while venturing out into the Scottish hills.
Most of his personal time in the mountains is spent on solo trips, and his vision is to equip and support people to develop the skills and confidence to look after themselves and others in the mountain environment.
Company information
Company Name: Mountain Training United Kingdom & Ireland Ltd
Company number: 04226512
Place of registration: England & Wales
Registered office address: Siabod Cottage, Plas y Brenin, Capel Curig, Betws y Coed, Conwy. LL24 0ES
Email address: info@mountain-training.org
Company not VAT registered
Registered charity number: 1090203
