Costs.
 The costs to undertake remote supervision work in 'wild country' are relatively high. However, as a grass roots, not-for-profit organisation without any shareholders or investors, we are in a position to to keep running costs low. In fact the in-house training programs described below work out at around £30 per person per day!
In house training in the Leeds area.
Our in house training program is suitable for groups in and around the Leeds area. We spread the training over a number of weeks and carry it out in your premises.
| Silver Award (in house training) - £270 per student |
Gold Award (in house training) - £299 per student |
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This includes:
Training: Six, three hour evening sessions at your premises and one full day session in the country side (£100).
Practice Expedition: Three days and two nights walking and camping (£85)
Assessed Expedition: Three days and two nights walking and camping. (£85)
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This includes:
Training: Six, three hour evening sessions at your premises and one full day session in the country side (£100).
Practice Expedition: Three days and two nights walking and camping (£85).
Assessed Expedition: Four days and four nights walking and camping (£114). |
These sample prices are for a Leeds based group taking the expedition in The Yorkshire Dales. These prices do not include Registration for The Award (£16.50) food, travel or campsite fees for the participants.
We have 'modularised' our expedition programmes so that you can pick and choose different options. If you have a team of Golds who have completed silver in the Yorkshire Dales then it may be better for them to do their qualifying expedition in the Lake District. In this case All other prices stay the same but the price for the Lake District expedition is £125 rather than £114.
If you would like us to quote for expeditions in other areas of the British Isles then please get in touch.
In House training elsewhere in the country.
If you live further afield and would like us to visit your group for an intensive weekend training course using your premises then please get in contact for a quote. We are happy to travel anywhere in the country to provide weekend training programs local to you.
Residential training.
For schools and other groups outside the Yorkshire area we can offer the entire expedition in two chunks. We carry out the training on a residential in the Yorkshire Dales and immediately follow it on with the practice expedition. We then carry out the qualifying expedition at a later date after participants have had time to recover and reflect on their practice expedition.
| Silver Award (residential training)- £330 per student |
Gold Award (residential training) - £360 per student |
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This includes:
Training and Practice Expedition: Three evenings and two full days training based in a bunk barn in the Yorkshire dales, immediately followed by a 3 day and two night practice expedition (£245)
Assessed Expedition: Three days and two nights walking and camping. (£85)
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This includes:
Training and Practice Expedition: Three evenings and two full days training based in a bunk barn in the Yorkshire dales, immediately followed by a 3 day and two night practice expedition (£245)
Assessed Expedition: Four days and four nights walking and camping (£115). |
Supervision of groups that you have trained.
After training a group yourselves we can provide qualified Mountain Leaders experienced in remote supervision to run and assess the expeditions. This costs £170 per member of staff per day. Please note we may have to charge an additional travel fee to cover costs of getting our staff to and from the location of the expedition.
Funding opportunities.
There are a number of pots of money out there that can be accessed to enable young people to take part in the Duke of Edinburgh Award. If your budget will not stretch to the fees required we can supply you with information as to where you may get the funding.
To start with you can try looking here
If you think that you may have students who would benefit from achieving The Award but neither your organisation or the students can afford it then get in touch soon so we can investigate other more specific funding pools.
As an organisation we tick quite a few boxes that funders like. It may help to point out that the organisation that you are hiring to carry out the activity is a not-for-profit social enterprise.
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