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.

The Lowland Leader scheme is designed for people who want to lead groups 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. This award is a wonderful opportunity to gain the leadership skills required to feel confident taking people out walking.

The Lowland Leader training course aims to develop the technical skills, judgements and areas of knowledge deemed necessary to ensure an individual is safe to do so.

This is a 2 day course (minimum of 16 hours)

Prerequisites for the Lowland Leader training course

Before you book onto the Lowland Leader training course;

• You must be registered on the scheme
• You must have recorded a minimum of 10 varied walks in Lowland terrain where the use of a map is required, which can have taken place at any point (pre or post registration).

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

Lowland Leader training course content

• Leadership skills and group management
• Walking skills
• Planning a walk
• Basic map work and route finding skills
• Equipment
• Hazards and emergency procedures
• Environment awareness, conservation, access and land ownership

Detailed information on each of the above topics can be found in the Lowland Leader Handbook, and the onus is on you to be competent in all of them by the time you come to assessment. 

Start

21/03/2024 10:00

End

22/03/2024 17:00

Total Days

2

Maximum Bookings

6

Bookings

6

Venue

Nottinghamshire

Town

Newark

County

Nottinghamshire

Postcode

NG23 7LB

Country

United Kingdom

Latitude

53.14568

Longitude

-0.76044

Name

Graham Uney Mountaineering

Phone

07498058912

Website

Booking/Details

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