Outdoor qualification courses
Outdoor qualifications, or National governing body awards (NGB's) are the recognised awards to hold in the UK to lead people in adventurous activities. Indeed, to take young people on adventurous activities, in a professional capacity, is in many cases illegal without holding the appropriate qualification.
NGB's are administered by the governing bodies and in the case of mountaineering and climbing this is the UK mountain training board. The Scottish arm of this organisation is Mountain Leader Training Scotland (MLTS). You can get more information by clicking on the logo above.
Once registered on an award scheme you can undertake training and assessment. These are seperate courses, with people taking time to consolidate skills before coming back for an assessment course. These courses can only be run by an an approved course provider. Mountain Motion are an approved course provider for SPA, WGL and ML awards. We run our own courses here in Fort William and are also regularly asked to run courses for other outdoor organisations.
For all NGB courses there are strict ratio's of staff to clients and also how many participants are required before a course can be run.
For details of the NGB courses we run, click on the buttons above for the various awards. We are also available to come and run courses at your location if you wish to organise a course for staff or your own clients.