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Camping Leader Assessment
- The Camping Leader qualification is for people who wish to supervise a camping group and develop participants’ camping proficiency by teaching camp-craft activities.
- Gaining this award would demonstrate competence for the camp-craft element of your expeditions, and can be used either in conjunction to walking awards (Lowland Leader or Hill and Moorland Leader) or for staff supporting the camp craft element of training
- Available to those school’s that buy in the Rochdale/Bury/BwD Educational Visits Advisory Service SLA
https://www.mountain-training.org/qualifications/walking/camping-leader
Due of the generosity of our Technical Adviser: The assessment is free of charge. However, you/school will be required to pay a registration fee of £25 per person which will gain you access to the online training module (4hrs approx.), that cost goes to Mountain Training. Registration and the online training must be completed prior to attending assessment. Equally because of the demand for the training locally, a charge for cancelling will also be considered.
We are limited to places 12 max, if oversubscribed we may need to allocate places equally among the establishments wishing to participate.
As a very rough over view of the assessment day; theory type session based from our office in the morning with the afternoon being based from a local campsite (transport required). Refreshments provided, you’ll need to bring lunch.
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David Scourfield & Thomas Booth (Educational Visits Advisers, Rochdale Borough Council))
David Scourfield (Accredited member of the Outdoor Education Advisers Panel)
Dave has been Educational Visits Adviser in Rochdale for the past 20 years, and is currently also contracted to Bury Council, to provide advisory services for both. He has also delivered training across a number of neighbouring Local Authorities. Prior to that Dave was a teacher for 12 years and he has also worked in various outdoor centres instructing adventure activities. He has experience as a development tutor at a management training company in the North. Dave is committed to using the outdoors as an educational tool, using real experiences to develop understanding and learning.
Thomas Booth (Accredited member of the Outdoor Education Advisers Panel)
Tom started off at an activity centre, where he started to see the benefits of providing challenge and being outside, from there moved on to support on the Prince’s Trust Team programme working with 16-25year olds. He then moved in to one-to-one youth mentoring with 16-17year olds, before volunteering with Rochdale Youth Service delivering outdoor education including expeditions. Whilst volunteering, he met Dave and shortly after, a job came up within the team, 10 years later Tom is still there.