Andy Godfrey

Andy has been a keen rock climber, hill walker and mountaineer since about the age of 14. He has spent the subsequent years exploring the mountainous areas of the British isles.

After leaving school and a 4 year spell working for BT he undertook and subsequently completed a Sport Science degree. Now, 14 years on, he is finding it hard to believe that he is actually mentioning it as a fairly relevant qualification, in context, for the first time.

Andy trained as a single pitch climbing instructor in 1996 and qualified as a mountain leader in 2004.  Andy started getting involved with the Duke of Edinburgh's Award in Leeds as soon as he qualified as a mountain leader. He volunteered for the City council Open Award Centres* for 6 years and was, for the first 3 years, their only qualified Mountain Leader. He is now the DofE Expedition Manager for Lupine. In 2009 he became an accredited assessor at all levels for the Duke of Edinburgh's Award.

Andy has spent time in Scotland every winter for the last decade, walking and climbing with groups of friends. His main summer time personal mountain enjoyment comes from a combination of scrambling and night navigation (and scrambling at night).

Andy is a founder member of Lupine Adventure Co-operative. He helped to set up the co-operative in 2007. The plan for setting up a workers co-op to provide outdoor education and recreation came about when Andy and Dave were doing a 10 day winter expedition in the Pyrenees. After a couple of days they had run out of things to talk about during the 14 hours of freezing darkness that they endured each night. The idea of the co-operative came up, they  started talking and the nights just flew by. 

Andy enjoys, Mountaineering, setting up co-operative ventures and writing in the third person.

* The open award in Leeds offer the Duke of Edinburgh award to the youth of Leeds who do not have the opportunity to do it through their school or youth club.