ML and WGL Holders Workshop

Who Is This Course For?
This course is for all holders of the Mountain Leader Award and Walking Group Leader Award

Course Aims
The course aims to cover the following areas:

• Current best practice in group leadership and management
• Information about the ‘Leaders Association’
• Advice for future development

Skills Covered
We will look at a variety of areas, such as group management and leadership, steep ground, Leaders Association, opportunities for future development, equipment – use and abuse, dealing with incidents and emergencies, development of risk assessments, child protection issues.


Our Staff
The instructor(s) who will work with you are all highly experienced and qualified.  Tollymore prides itself in the knowledge and experience that its full time and part time staff bring to its courses.  Our staff are all keen hillwalkers and mountaineers and know the Mournes very well.  You may well have met them in the hills in the past or will bump into them in the future on days when they are not working!

All are obliged to attend annual staff updates and training courses

What do I need to bring?
Personal hillwalking kit,  if you require any technical equipment, you will be able to sign it out from the Tollymore Mountain Centre stores.

Tollymore Information
Tollymore Mountain Centre, on the edge of the Mournes, is Northern Ireland’s National Centre for Mountaineering and Canoeing Activities.  It is funded and managed by the Sports Council for Northern Ireland as a National Centre. The Centre is an attractive, purpose-built facility of log construction with accommodation for 30 people in 2, 4 and 6 berth bedrooms.  Quilts, pillows and bed linen are all provided.  The Centre is well appointed with toilets, showers, modern kitchen, lecture room, workshop and drying room.  Outside there is ample parking space, a ropes course and a floodlit granite-climbing wall.  A modern indoor climbing wall is open year round.  The centre is ideally situated on the edge of the Mournes, with quick and easy access to the hills.  The Central Council for Physical Recreation opened Tollymore Mountain Centre in 1969.  In 1974, it passed to the newly established Sports Council for Northern Ireland Trust.  In 1995, Tollymore achieved the management standard BS EN ISO 9001:2000 for the quality systems it operates.   However, as part of Sports Council for Northern Ireland’s ongoing commitment to the development of the National Centre, Tollymore will be undergoing a major redevelopment, commencing in 2007.  The facilities will be improved and expanded, to ensure that Tollymore remains as an example of best practice in the provision of mountaineering, hillwalking, climbing and canoeing courses in Northern Ireland.

Accommodation
Your course is a weekend course and accommodation is included in the course fee
Catering
Your course fully catered, from breakfast on Saturday morning to lunch on Sunday

Useful Books
Recommended by and available from Tollymore
Recommended by and available from Tollymore

’Hillwalking’, by Steve Long, published by MLTUK

Useful contacts:

Mountaineering Council of Ireland,

Sport HQ,

13 Joyce Way,

Parkwest Business Park,

Dublin 12.

Tel +353-1-6251115

Fax +353-1-6251116