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Clive Nutton 22504
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Membership Mountain Training Association

Membership Type Qualified Member

Membership Number 22504

Renewal Date 07/11/2025

Phone 07917 104 823

Email brightaireoutside@gmail.com

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I've my parents to thank for my love of the outdoors and nature and for holidays to the coast and countryside all over Great Britain. In school and the Scouts I was introduced to wild camping, expeditions, caving and rock-climbing and was a keen early adopter of mountain-biking.

At Newcastle University Mountaineering Club I was a terrible secretary but an improving climber. Trips all over the UK and to the French and Swiss Alps punctuated my studies. He began to break into the extreme rock-climbing grades and enjoy Scottish winter climbing – completing all of Ben Nevis’ winter ridges and summiting the Matterhorn.

I completed teacher training (in geography and outdoor activities) at Leeds University where I began outdoor leadership qualifications (Summer Mountain Leader and Single Pitch Award) and co-led a young people's expedition to the Cordillera Apolobamba in Bolivia.

I have taught in primary, secondary and adult education, mainstream and alternative provision since 1994. I've run outdoor activities, field trips and residentials, used outdoor problem solving activities and been involved in personal development and volunteering projects, including the National Citizen Service.

Throughout, I've continued to get outside on foot, bike, underground and on the water and crags - competitively and for fun. I've enjoyed trips all over Great Britain, to the USA, Scandinavia, Europe and the Scottish Hebrides. I've spent many nights in tents and bivibags.

More recently I have completed a degree in wildlife and conservation and added to my outdoor leadership skills - gaining paddlesport coach, mountainbike leader, cave leader, Duke of Edinburgh Award leader and assessor and Forest School practitioner qualifications.

I'm interested in how people, landscapes and nature relate to each other and how activity in the outdoors can support personal development and well–being. I'm currently working through the rock-climbing coaching pathway.
BMC FUNdamentals of Climbing 2 20/07/2022 1.00
BMC FUNdamentals of Climbing 1 19/07/2022 1.00
Geology - Mountain landscapes & rock types 08/02/2022 0.25

I always loved playing outdoors and nature and by the time I began teacher training in the early 90s I'd enjoyed camping holidays to the coast and countryside all over Great Britain. I'd been introduced to wild camping, expeditions, caving and rock-climbing through school and the Scouts. A keen cyclist, I was an “early adopter” of mountainbikes.
At Newcastle University Mountaineering Club I was an improving climber breaking into the extreme rock-climbing grades, enjoying Scottish winter climbing and the European Alps. I completed teacher training (in geography and outdoor activities) at Leeds University where I began to gain outdoor leadership qualifications and co-led a young people's expedition to the Cordillera Apolobamba, Bolivia.
Since 1994 I’ve taught in many areas of mainstream and alternative education and continued to enjoy mountain activities throughout the UK, Europe, Scandinavia and in the USA.
My outdoor leadership qualifications and the processes of gaining them have defined my identity as a teacher. I have always sought opportunities to apply my skills in enrichment activities with students. When opportunities to teach outdoors have been limited my awards have influenced my approaches and provided me with the personal qualities to do a good job.
More recently, my outdoor leadership qualifications have allowed me to change career. I'm currently enjoying phase two as a freelance outdoor educator.

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