A one (1) day assessment to measure your competency against the Camping Leader syllabus. On successful completion of the assessment, you’ll be qualified to supervise camping groups, teach campcraft activities and develop participants’ camping proficiency.

Led by our experienced trainers, you’ll be part of small groups of upto six people. This 1:6 teaching ratio allows us to personalise your experience and give you the best chance of successfully completing your assessment.

What’s covered?

Over the course of the day our qualified trainers will guide you through everything you need to know to successfully supervise camping groups, including:

• Leadership and group management
• Planning and supervision
• Teaching and learning skills
• Camping equipment
• Camping food and cooking

Training is run across the Midlands and Peak District, or can be run local to you as a bespoke course.

Prerequisites for the Camping Leader Assessment

• Be at least 18 years old
• Personally undertaken and logged an absolute minimum of five overnight camps, ideally in a variety of contexts
• Assisted with or overseen at least two group camps. If personal camping has only been undertaken when also supervising a group, then these two group camps can be part of the total submitted for personal camping i.e. some candidates may need to log only five overnight camps in total. Reflective comments must accompany the group supervision evidence
• Be familiar with the syllabus
• Be an experienced, self-sufficient camper
• Have experience of the supervision of camping groups
• Physically (i.e. not online) attended and completed a first aid course which involved at least one full day or eight hours of instruction and included an element of assessment

If you have any questions about your suitability for assessment, please get in touch.

Book your Assessment

The Camping Leader Assessment costs £85 per person (1:6 teaching ratio) and is held over one (1) day. Dates and locations are on the table below or on the Mountain Training website.

We are also happy to run bespoke courses for groups at an agreed location – please get in touch to find out more.

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