Director & Chief Instructor, Hunter Outdoor Training  

Senior Manager, 'The Asheldham Centre'

Project Manager: Merrylands Centre of Excellence for Outdoor Education

Qualifications:

Certificate in Education (Cert.Ed.) Eaton Hall College of Education

Bachelor of Education Hons. (B.Ed. [Hons.]) Univ. Nottingham

Chartered Geographer (C.Geog) with the RGS 

DfE Qualified Teacher

Mountain Leader. (MLTE) Plas y Brenin

First Aid. HSE. 1986-2011

First Aid AED Operator & Oxygen

Mountain First Aid Qual. Plas y Brenin from 1986 to date & Refreshers

Awards, Accreditations, & Recognition:

Fellow of The Royal Geographical Society. 1974

University of Nottingham Scholarship to Univ. Bucharest

‘Outdoor Education Champion’  for determined and productive delivery in promoting excellence. Institute for Outdoor Learning

The ‘National Example of Good Practice in Outdoor Education’ proposed to Ofsted by The British Sports Trust.

Winston Churchill Fellowship Silver Medal awarded February 2002 for ‘Safety Research in Adventure Training, & School Educational Visits’

Highly praised by Ofsted & 'National Strategies' 1997-2010

Associate Fellow Royal Meteorological Society 2011

Experience:

31 years as a classroom teacher.

Speaker, lecturer, Committee Chairman

Businessman: 'Hunter Outdoor Training' based in Leigh on Sea

Polar & Arctic expeditionary: trans-Greenland by dog sledge, southern Greenland, northern Norway. Sub-Arctic experience: throughout Iceland and mainland Scandinavia: All seasons. 33 years expedition work in Norway and Iceland mostly leading.

170+ residential explorations and expeditions as leader

3,000+ day-courses teaching outdoor education as leader

Eight years working freelance for the MOD as a Survival Instructor

Teaching 2500+ youth per year outdoor pursuits.

Former Head of Geography Dept The King John School 1981 - 1991

Former Head of Outdoor Education, The King John School 1991-2006.