Scheme Details
- Awarding Body
- Mountain Training
- Scheme
- Hill and Moorland Leader
- Course
- Training
- Type
- Training
Award Description
The Hill and Moorland Leader award is designed for people who want to lead groups in the hill and moorland areas of the UK and Ireland. This award is a wonderful opportunity to learn the leadership skills required to feel confident about taking people out walking. As you may have guessed from the descriptive title of this award, it focuses on non-mountainous terrain.
About
An opportunity to explore the fabulous fells around Moffat in Scotland, while learning the skills to become a Hill & Moorland Leader, with Graham Uney Mountaineering
The Syllabus
The Hill and Moorland Leader Award training covers the following subjects:
- Walking and group management
- Navigation
- Hazards and emergency procedures
- Equipment
- Responsibilities of the leader
- Group management
- Access, conservation, and environmental knowledge
- Weather
- Background Knowledge
The full syllabus and Scheme Handbook can be viewed on the Mountain Training website here
Our Hill and Moorland Leader Award courses are all run with Graham Uney as Course Director. Training courses take place over 3 days, and offer candidates suitable terrain within the scope of the award, with plenty of learning opportunities along the way. Our assessment courses also run over 3 days.
How Do I Join?
First of all, you must be a member of a mountaineering council to enter the Hill and Moorland Leader Scheme, so that will be either the BMC, Mountaineering Scotland, or Mountaineering Ireland. You can join one of these during the registration process with Mountain Training.
You must then register for this award with Mountain Training before you can take part in the training course. Registration costs £49 – payable to Mountain Training upon registering. This gives you access to the superb DLOG online logbook, and a copy of the British Mountaineering Council’s ‘Safety on Mountains’ booklet. You must then personally undertake and log an absolute minimum of 20 varied hillwalking days in suitable terrain You will then be eligible to attend the Hill and Moorland Leader Award training course.
After attending the Hill and Moorland Leader award training course, you then need to undertake a consolidation period (you'll be advised about this during the debrief session at the end of your training course) and complete an appropriate First Aid course, before you can attend a Hill and Moorland Leader Award assessment course.
Where And When
- Start
- 05/09/2025 09:00
- End
- 07/09/2025 17:00
- Total Days
- 3
- Maximum Bookings
- 6
- Venue
- Moffatdale, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.
- Town
- Moffat
- County
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Postcode
- DG10 9EG
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Latitude
- 55.33187
- Longitude
- -3.44421
Provider
- Name
- Graham Uney Mountaineering
- Phone
- 07498 058912
- Website
- Booking/Details
