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Navigation, leadership and outdoor safety | Countryside and conservation

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Navigation, leadership and outdoor safety

  • Active First Aid Training The Old Stables, Snowdon Street, Llanberis LL55 4HE, tel  01286 870 019
    www.activefirstaid.co.uk
    Specialist first aid training including for outdoor activities.
  • Adventure First Aid 14 Pennsylvania Road, Torquay TQ1 1NX, tel 01803 403996
    www.adventurefirstaid.co.uk
    Specialist first aid training including for outdoor activities.
  • Association of Mountaineering Instructors (AMI): address as MLTB below
    www.ami.org.uk
  • BST (British Sports Trust) 10 Milburn Avenue, Oldbrook, Milton Keynes MK6 2WA, tel 01908 689180
    www.bst.org.uk 
    Runs sports and expedition leader award schemes
  • CarolClimb Todhole Farm, Lamplugh CA14 4TT, tel 01946 862746
    www.carolclimb.co.uk
    Customised navigation courses for all ages and abilities, MLTB and women-only courses
  • C-N-Do Scotland Unit 33, Stirling Enterprise Park, Stirling, FK7 7RP, tel 01786 445703
    www.cndoscotland.com
    Provider of National Navigation Award courses along with winter skills, mountaincraft and Walking Group Leader courses.
  • Compassworks The Crest, Allerford, Portgate EX20 4PU, tel 01566 783236
    www.compassworks.co.uk
    Training for small groups in traditional map and compass work, GPS, and digital mapping.
  • CRT Medical 1 Primrose Hill, Llabadarn Fawr, Aberystwyth, SY23 3SF, tel 01970 630143
    www.crtmedical.co.uk
    Training and residential courses in first aid for the outdoors.
  • Edale Activity Centre: see YHA
  • Glenmore Lodge: see SportScotland
  • GPS Training 1 Bracken Cottages, Calthwaite, Penrith, Cumbria, CA11 9QS, tel 01768 885855
    www.gpstraining.co.uk
    Good one and two day NNAS bronze courses in the Lake District and GPS training throughout the UK. Discounts for RA groups.
  • Guy Wilson Mountaineering 19 Red Scar Lane, Newby, Scarborough, YO12 5RH, tel 01723 371999
    www.navtraining.co.uk
    Offers awards in navigation and guided walks
  • High Peak First Aid Training Deep Dale Lodge, Taddington, Buxton SK17 9UJ, tel 01298 85688
    www.hpfa.org.uk
    Offer courses especially tailored for walking group leaders
  • Coleg Harlech Harlech LL46 2PU, tel 01766 781900
    www.fc.harlech.ac.uk
    Mountain walking and navigation courses in Snowdonia
  • Coleg Llysfasi Ruthin LL15 2LB, tel 01978 790263
    www.llysfasi.ac.uk 
    Courses include MLTB Walking Group Leader Award
  • Johnson's Expedition Guides 18 Vine Street, Evesham, WR11 4RL, tel 01386 462181
    www.expedtionguide.com
    NNAS-accredited provider of navigation and outdoor courses in Snowdonia and the Scottish Highlands.
  • Mountain Leader Training Association (MLTA) Siabod Cottage, Capel Curig, Conwy LL24 0ET, tel 01690 720129
    www.mlta.co.uk
  • Mountain Leader Training England (MLTE) Siabod Cottage, Capel Curig, Conwy LL24 0ET, tel 01690 720314
    www.mlte.org
  • Mountain Leader Training Scotland (MLTS) Glenmore, Aviemore PH22 1QU, tel 01479 861248
    www.mltuk.org
  • Mountain Leader Training UK (MLTUK) Siabod Cottage, Capel Curig, Conwy LL24 0ET, tel 01690 720272
    Registrations tel 0870 010 4878
    www.mltuk.org
    Coordinates training for walking and mountaineering leaders  including the Mountain Leader and Walking Group Leader award schemes
  • Mountain Leader Training Wales - Hyfforddi Arweinwyr Mynydda Cymru Siabod Cottage, Capel Curig LL24 0ET, tel 01690 720361
    www.mltw.org
  • Mountaineering Mentors Barbeg Cottage, Barochan Road, Langbank, Scotland, PA14 6YP, tel 07801 832798
    www.mountaineeringmentors.co.uk
    Provides NNAS and MLTA approved training courses in mountaineering and hillwalking.
  • Muir-Walker Medics Co-operative PO Box 5146, Brighton, BN50 9TG, tel 0845 223 5439
    www.outdooremergencycare.com
    Courses in wilderness first-aid, from basic to advanced
  • NNAS (National Navigation Award Scheme) 32 Stirling Enterprise Park, Springbank Road, Stirling FK7 7RP, tel  01786 451307
    www.nnas.org.uk
    National body which offers navigation training via independent accredited outdoor centres.
  • Outer Limits Explore PO Box 790, Taunton, TA1 9DG, tel 0845 200 8512
    www.outerlimitsexplore.co.uk
    Outdoor training and assessment including Walk Leader training.
  • Over the Hill 19 Heol-y-Groes, Litchard, Bridgend, CF31 1QY, tel 01656 650044
    www.overthehill.org.uk
    National Navigation Award Scheme-accredited courses up to Gold standard.
  • Plas y Brenin National Mountain Centre (Mountain Training Trust) Siabod Cottage, Capel Curig LL24 0ET, tel 01690 720214
    www.pyb.co.uk
  • Rescue Emergency Care 33 Kings Crescent, Elderslie, Johnstone PA5 9AD, tel 0870 532 9242
    First aid training for outdoor activities
  • Staffordshire University offer mountain/outdoor leadership education as a component of geography, geology and environmental education degrees.
  • Trigpoint Hillwalking 56 Roedale Road, Brighton BN1 7GB, tel 07989 400831
    www.trigpointhillwalking.com
    Half-day to three day courses in map reading, navigation and route planning, based in the South Downs.

Countryside recreation, environment and conservation

  • CAST (Centre for Alternative and Sustainable Transport) School of Sciences, Staffordshire University, College Road, Stoke-on-Trent ST4 2DE, tel 01782 295771
    www.staffs.ac.uk/geography/cast 
    Researches into and advises on sustainable transport.
  • Environmental Trainers Network (ETN) c/o BTCV, Red House, Great Barr, Birmingham B43 6LZ, tel 0121 358 2155
    www.btcv.org/etn 
    One- and two-day courses aimed at local authorities, statutory bodies and voluntary organisations concerned with countryside and environmental issues including some related to access, footpaths, encouraging walking and sustainable transport.
  • Field Studies Council Montford Bridge, Preston Montford, Shrewsbury SY4 1HW, tel 01743 852100
    www.field-studies-council.org
    Courses on nature, conservation and the environment at 14 centres in England and Wales.
  • Footprint Consulting Limited Ruthven View, East Terrace, Kingussie, PH21 1JS, tel 01540 662424
    www.footprintconsulting.org
    Promotes ecologically sustainable ways of living through consultancy, training and education.
  • ILAM (Institute of Leisure and Amenity Management) ILAM House, Lower Basildon, Reading RG8 9NE, tel 01491 874841
    www.ilam.co.uk 
    Aims to raise the standards of leisure provision by information and training
  • Institute for Outdoor Learning The Barn, Plumpton Old Hall, Plumpton, Penrith CA11 9NP, tel 01768 885800
    www.outdoor-learning.org
    Supporting, developing and promoting learning through outdoor experiences.
  • IPROW run a variety of courses on rights of way issues, aimed primarily at rights of way officers and other countryside professionals: see their main entry.
  • Kindrogan Field Studies Centre Enochdhu by Blairgowrie PH10 7PG, tel 01250 881286
    www.kindrogan.com
    Natural history teaching centre run by Scottish Field Studies Association
  • LEARN (LINK Environmental and Academic Research Network), Scottish Environment LINK, PO Box 23476, Edinburgh EH4 1YR
    www.scotlink.org/learn 
    Managed by Scottish Environment LINK to match students to environmental research projects in Scotland.
  • RNIB Education & Employment Centre North East 4 Beaumont Street, Darlington DL1 5SZ, tel 01325 252858
    www.rnib.org.uk/services/north.htm 
    Courses in practical approaches to including visually impaired people in outdoor activities.
  • Sheffield Hallam University School of Sport and Leisure Management, City Campus, Howard Street, Sheffield S1 1WB, tel 0114 225 3506
    www.shu.ac.uk/schools/slm/cecol.html 
    Courses in environmental management and countryside recreation, including an MSc in Public Rights of Way and Countryside Access Management by distance learning. 
  • Staffordshire University Geography Department, School of Sciences, College Road, Stoke-on-Trent ST4 2DE, tel 01782 294018
    www.staffs.ac.uk/schools/sciences/geography/awards 
    Postgraduate diplomas in countryside management and access/rights of way; BA/BSc Hons in Geography, Geology and Environmental Education with Mountain/Outdoor Leadership.
  • University of Wales Aberystywyth Department of Sport and Exercise Science, Penglais Campus, Aberystwyth SY23 3DA, tel 01970 621545
    www.aber.ac.uk
    Research on walking for health, including preparing calorie maps
  • Woodcraft Folk 13 Ritherdon Road, London SW17 8QE, tel 020 8672 6031
    www.woodcraft.org.uk
    Educational movement for children and young people, designed to develop self confidence and activity in society, with the aim of building a world based on equality, friendship, peace and co-operation.