British Association of Mountain Guides AGM – Plas y Brenin – 2^nd December 2023

Bookings should be made by midday Thursday the 16^th November on CMS.

The British Association of Mountain Guides AGM will be held in the main lecture room at Plas y Brenin on Saturday, the 2^nd December from 2pm to 5pm. The AGM and Open Forum is open to all members and free to attend. Protect Our Winters will present a short session during the Open Forum to discuss our new relationship and their and our expectations. We also plan to run the AGM virtually which will be available to all members, details for which will follow.

The AGM dinner will be held after the AGM at Plas y Brenin from 7.30pm. There is a booking fee of £36 per person that should be paid by the end of the 12^th November.

Please make menu choices via the booking system in the following link:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeCHzlQBCLR2kQnWzDzqxM1IRdcjO9-4oNPdzHbdYo7G1BPAg/viewform?usp=sf_link

Please advise any allergies or specific dietary requirements in the link.

Any choices not made will automatically receive the set menu below:

Set Menu:

• Welsh wagyu beef Carpaccio with wild and roasted black garlic
• Beef Wellington with winter crushed potato and seasonal vegetables and a port and berry jus
• Home- baked chocolate brownie with honeycomb shard salted caramel sauce and freshly whipped cream. (V)

The bar closes at 11pm on Saturday

Risk management seminar

The risk management seminar will take place on Sunday the 3^rd December in the main lecture room of Plas y Brenin from 9am until 4pm. The day will be presented by Professor Lew Hardy, Professor Tim Woodman and performance psychologist Dr Matt Barlow alongside our PSC Jim Kerr. The session will concentrate on relationships with risk, both for ourselves and working with clients, and will be a mixture of practical and theoretical learning that can be taken into our day to day work, as well as our personal climbing and mountaineering. Hot lunch will be available to all and tea/coffee will be available throughout the day. The session is worth one core CPD point. Bookings cost £25 inclusive of food and tea/coffee.

Accommodation

Bed and breakfast accommodation is available at Plas y Brenin on a first come first served basis. 

Contact info@pyb.co.uk or phone 01690 720214. The accommodation page on the website is shown as blocked off for the AGM.

OTHER CPD OPPORTUNITIES

“Making Instagram work for your business” - Media Training with Mark Bullock

1000-1300 on Saturday the 2^nd September prior to the AGM

The BMG social media guru Mark Bullock will be running a session, worth half a non-core CPD point, on using social media for your climbing and mountaineering business. This will be a mixture of classroom and practical learning based from Plas y Brenin’s main lecture room.

Bookings cost £30 via the CMS inclusive of tea and coffee and there are 15 places available.

For any enquiries, please contact Mark direct at: themarkbullock@gmail.com

Guides Medic Course

Owen Samuel will be convening a Guides Medic Course which will be worth either 3 CPD points (1 core & 2 non-core) or it will count as your 3 yearly first aid course plus 1 core CPD point. There are still places available.

Your instructors will be Paramedics and Mountain Medicine Doctors with ‘in the field’ experience, it's run at a 1:4 ratio, the course is specific to IFMGA guides, drugs prescriptions will be provided ahead of the course, you will have the option to receive the drugs and specialist equipment that you order (additional cost), the course is tried and tested with good feedback by more than 30 of our colleagues.

Is the course for you? It's a big step up from basic first aid so you need to be motivated to do the extra learning and take on the extra responsibilities of your actions. That said, most guides carry drugs in their first aid kits... This course aims to try and legitimize that!

The course comprises of 6-8 hours of online learning, 1 day of theory and practical in the classroom at Plass Y Brenin, 1 day on the hill doing scenarios in technical terrain.

The booking fee is £400 and if interested please email Owen on: owenrichsamuel@hotmail.com

BMG Cancellation Policy

Cancellation by attendee:
Course attendance cannot be cancelled online; attendees need to call the Mountain Training office.
If a booking is made in error and a cancellation is made within 14 days of booking, a full refund will be made.
All refunds made, except those made within 14 days of booking, will be subject to a minimal charge due to CMS transaction charges incurred which cannot be reclaimed. This charge is £7.50 for refunds up to £300 and 2.5% of refunds above £300.

If cancellations are received up to eight weeks before the event, attendees will get a full refund (less CMS transaction fee); less than eight weeks, but more than four weeks before the course: 50% refund (less CMS transaction fee); less than four weeks before the course date: no refund unless a reserve is able to fill the slot.
Late non-attendance due to unforeseen circumstances needs to be reported ASAP direct to the course provider, so that arrangements can be made to allow reserves to attend.

Cancellation by the BMG:
The BMG will cancel workshops/courses which do not meet the minimum attendance criteria no less than four weeks before the course date, and a full refund will be given. Every effort is made to deliver all of the advertised courses, however as these are non-profitmaking, the BMG reserves the right to cancel a course should there be insufficient attendees to cover the costs.

Cancellation by trainer:
If the provider cannot run the course at the last minute due to injury or illness, and cannot find an alternative provider, it is their responsibility to notify candidates of the last-minute cancellation. The BMG will refund the candidate in full and no payment will be made to the provider.

Start

02/12/2023 10:00

End

03/12/2023 16:00

Total Days

2

Maximum Bookings

110

Bookings

59

Venue

Plas y Brenin

Town

Betws-y-Coed

County

Conwy

Postcode

LL24 0ET

Country

United Kingdom

Latitude

53.10218

Longitude

-3.91841

Name

British Mountain Guides

Phone

01690 720 386

Email