The Outdoor Tourism Project

Training for a career in the outdoor sector

•The Outdoor Partnership•Conwy CC•Gwynedd CC•Dun Laoghaire •Kildare•Kilkenny

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Apprenticeships

An Apprenticeship is a real job with training so you can earn while you learn and pick up some nationally recognised qualifications as you go

Apprenticeship is a system of training a new generation of practitioners of a trade or profession with on-the-job training and often some accompanying study (classroom work and reading)

One bound by legal agreement to work for another for a specific amount of time in return for instruction in a trade, art, or business.2. One who is learning a trade or occupation, especially as a member of a labour union.3. A beginner; a learner.

in which trainees learn a craft or trade by hands-onexperience while working with a skilled worker, usually under a written or implied indentureship agreement.

Government Funding

Or is it?

Outdoor

PursuitsEducationLearningSportsTourismActivities

The OutdoorsThe Outdoor Sector

Outdoor Tourism

Outdoo

r Edu

cation

 

or Lea

rning?

Outdoor Pursuits or 

Activities?

It’s not simply what we do but it’s where we do it, why we do it, when we do it , who we do it with and to what level we do it with

Open environments/closed environments

Who pays?

Level 2Level 3

Level 4/5

Selection ProcessThe Outdoor Tourism Project Instructor Scheme (Wales)

6/8 week training Period at Plas y Brenin

The Outdoor Tourism Project Instructor Scheme (Wales)

On going work experience and time in college

Three month Block Work experience

Gone!

MLL2

SPAD1

BTEC L3=

JOBS

The Outdoor Tourism Project halfPLC Course in Outdoor Sport and Recreation, Duiske College, Graiguenamanagh

NGB and Skills Development

FETAC Modules

Sport and Recreation AllianceAIACAALSWATOWales tourism AllianceSnowdonia AttractionsTourism Partnership North Wales CouncilsVisit WalesNGB’s plus MTA, AMI type bodiesAHOECIOLBritain on FootSkillsActiveMountain Training and other NGB’sOEAP

Outdoor Industries Association Outdoor Writers GuildCCPREnglish Outdoor Council Adventure Activities Industry Advisory Committee, Council for Learning Outside the Classroom, British Activity Providers Association,Snowdonia ActiveThe English Outdoor CouncilIOL Employers GroupOutdoor Pursuits Group (Sports Council for Wales)Wales Outdoor Adventure Activities ForumBritish Activity Providers AssociationOutdoor Recreation Network

The body which represents the Outdoor sector is...