Awarding Body

Mountain Training

Scheme

Lowland Leader

Course

Training

Type

Training

Award Description

The Lowland Leader qualification has been designed for people who wish to lead groups on day walks in lowland countryside and woodland in summer conditions. The majority of the UK and Ireland is made up of this type of terrain so you'll never be short of places to go walking.

🥾 Joining Instructions

🧭 Overview

This course develops the skills and judgment required to confidently and safely lead groups in lowland countryside and woodland.

1. Duration: Minimum of 16 hours
2. Course Info: Mountain Training – Lowland Leader

✅ Before You Attend

Prerequisites

• Min age for training 17
• You must be registered with Mountain Training
• You must have recorded a minimum of 10 quality lowland day walks registered in your Digital Logbook (DLOG)

📢 Please ensure you have entered your minimum prerequisites in your digital logbook (DLOG) at the time of confirming your place on the course. 

📘 What You’ll Learn

The course follows the Lowland Leader syllabus. Topics include:

• Leadership and group management
• Route planning, map work & navigation
• Hazards and emergency procedures
• Equipment (personal and group)
• Access, conservation, and land ownership

📖 More details can be found in the Lowland Leader Handbook

📝 Outcomes

1. Completed: You have attended and completed the training course and met the prerequisite requirements.
2. Not Yet Completed: If for any reason you do not complete the required hours you will receive this result. In all cases an action plan will be discussed and created for you.

📢 Reminder: Training does not equal qualification. Assessment must be passed separately.

📅 Course Schedule

Day 1 – Online Intro, 15th September 2025

📍 Online (link sent in advance)

🕖 19:00–21:00
Topics: Ethos, pathway, outcomes, Mountain Training structure

Day 2 – Field Day, 20th September 2025

📍 Rykas Cafe, Old London Rd, Mickleham, RH5 6BY
🕙 10:00–18:00

Topics: Navigation, equipment, hazards, conservation, group management
🌒 Evening: Navigation in poor visibility

Day 3 – Field Day, 21st September 2025

📍 Rykas Cafe, Old London Rd, Mickleham, RH5 6BY
🕘 09:00–15:00
Topics: Route planning, responsibility, emergency procedures, personal action planning

⛅ Schedule may vary with weather

🎒 What to Bring

Basic kit list (not exhaustive):

1. Food & water for long days
2. Walking clothes + waterproofs
3. Spare warm layer
4. Rucksack (30–40L)
5. Boots
6. Hat/gloves or sun protection
7. Compass (Silva Type 4 recommended)
8. OS Map 146 – Dorking, Box Hill & Reigate
9. Head torch + spare batteries
10. Notebook + pen + Sharpie
11. Personal medication
12. First aid kit (group/personal)

🧭 More Opportunities

A further two day Camping Leader Module is available for those who wish to lead and supervise overnight expeditions. The module also covers remote supervision and teaching navigation. For more information please check out the Camping Leader Module

School of Outdoors provide Lowland Leader training, 16 hour outdoor First Aid training, Lowland Leader Assessment and Camping Leader Courses across the South East inc. Surrey Hills, Chilterns, New Forest and South Downs.

Our courses are well placed for candidates from the following areas;

London, Kent, Medway, East Sussex, West Sussex, Brighton and Hove, Surrey, Hampshire, Portsmouth, Southampton, Dorset, Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, Milton Keynes, Northamptonshire, Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk.

If this course isn't the right type, date or location for you then please visit our website to see all the courses we have on offer.

https://www.schoolofoutdoors.uk/adult-courses

📚 Useful Links

Lowland Leader Candidate Handbook

Hillwalking – Official Guide

Mountain Training YouTube Channel

⚠ Important Info

• Insurance: Mountain Training recommends you consider personal accident and cancellation insurance. If you already have insurance cover, check that it covers you for the activity you are undertaking.
• Risk Statement: The British Mountaineering Council (BMC) ‘Participation Statement’ states: ‘The BMC recognises that climbing, hillwalking and mountaineering are activities with a danger of injury or death. Participants in these activities should be aware of and accept these risks and be responsible for their own actions and involvement’

By booking on to this course you acknowledge that you will be taking part in physically strenuous activities, and you are physically fit to do so. School of Outdoors Limited are under no liability whatsoever in respect of loss or damage to personal effects which you may sustain. You agree to comply with the safety regulations as designated by the staff at the Company. You agree to indemnify the Course staff and the company against all claims, costs, actions and demands whatsoever resulting from taking part in the programme of activities or the administration of medicines, unless such claims, costs, actions or demands result out of the negligence of the Company.

• Special Requirements: Please log medical/dietary needs via your tahdah profile
• Emergency Contact: Please make sure your profile is up to date
• Reasonable Adjustments: Please use the links below to understand more about the support we can offer for those with additional needs or require reasonable adjustments.
  Support Info, Policy

🚗 Travel

We support sustainable travel:
💬 Lift share discussion in online intro
🔗 Lift share – BMC Community

📌 Booking terms and conditions

Read our Booking Terms

Start

20/09/2025 10:00

End

21/09/2025 15:00

Total Days

2

Maximum Bookings

6

Bookings

1

Venue

Rykas Cafe, Old London Rd, Mickleham

Town

Dorking

County

Surrey

Postcode

RH5 6BY

Country

United Kingdom

Latitude

51.25816

Longitude

-0.32256

Name

School of Outdoors

Phone

01296336644

Website

Email