National Coasteering Charter Regional Meeting

Hi all,

Please find information below from Stephen Brown regarding the National Coasteering Charter.

Kind Regards

Chris Scott
Activity Tourism Manager
Outdoor Recreation NI

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Hi Folks,

As some of you may be aware I am the Northern Ireland Regional Representative for the National Coasteering Charter (NCC).

I'll be heading over to England for the NCC National meeting on the 23rd November.

The Agenda for this meeting and details of the technical advisor proposal to be discussed are attached. The minutes of the NI regional meeting in May can be downloaded from red link below.

Prior to the National Meeting we need to hold the Northern Ireland end of season Regional Meeting at the House of Sport on Wednesday 14th November. The meeting will run from 6.30pm – 8.00pm. We will be in Room C and you can come through the main entrance. The minutes of this meeting will be fed back at the National Meeting.

Could you please confirm your attendance by email before Monday 12th November. If you have any matters or items for discussion (even if you are unable to attend) please let me know or give me a call on 07513868476.

Please feel free to encourage other Coasteering providers and stakeholders such as landowners, tourism bodies, etc to come along to this meeting.

Thanks for your time and I shall look forward to seeing you all next week.

Chat soon,

Stephen

Stephen Brown
The Adventure Team
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Draft Technical Advisor Proposal
September 2012
John-Paul Eatock. Chair, the National Coasteering Charter

Hi Reps,
Please use this as the basis of your discussion at your Regional meetings, and bring outcomes of discussions to the National Coasteering Charter on Friday 23rd Nov for final discussion.

The proposal is that the National Standard for a Coasteering Technical Advisor should have, as a minimum:
1. At least 10 years of experience leading Coasteering groups regularly

2. Some form of sea qualification – both theoretically that shows understanding of waves, weather, forecasting and tides, practically – so they know what it is like to be in the water e.g. Kayak level 3, 5 star leader, 5 star surf, SLSGB Surf award (beach is for flat water), plus any other that you suggest.

3. Has some basic climbing award, ML Summer or above e.g. SPA.

4. Be good at paperwork

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National Coasteering CharterAgenda
Friday 23rd November 2012
Clifton Road Outdoor Education Centre, Clifton Road, Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, B73 6EB; Tel: 0121 675 6395; Email centre@stables.bham.org.uk; www.boec.bham.org.uk/cliftonroad

Timings Item Lead

9.30 Welcome around the room.

9.40 Reminder of what the NCC is about, what our roles as representatives are, and a review of any progress made since Nov 2011.
Review of previous minutes – actions reviewed.
Treasurer report

9.50 Learning from major near misses and accidents:

Around the room – incidents, accidents and how we might learn from them.
Each representative to share any incident or accident that has happened this season, and how they coped with it, or would cope with it given a second chance.

Each Regional Representative to bring at least 1 to the meeting
For Discussion and Action back at Regional level

10.50 Break

11.10 Rules and regs of the Charter and tweeked for our use.
For discussion and agreement

11.30 Regional Updates – This Seasons highlights and issues raised in the Spring and Autumn Regional meetings.

12.00 Technical Advisor qualifications/experience – producing recommendations from the NCC

12.15 SLSGB to talk through their Coasteering Award Proposal for us to discuss and decide on

12.45 Lunch provided

13.15 MCA update on the WAID data project for us to track accidents and incidents at regional and national level

13.30 The possibility of getting cheaper insurance through NCC recognition and membership

13.35 Space for issues raised at Regional level (11:30am) to be discussed if required. Items to be added to the next NCC agenda

14.00 AOB All

14.30 Depart