Qualifications, Training and Assessment
Community centred training for your or your team. Ethical Activities work with you to build the skills, knowledge and experience within your community.
Qualifications to lead and guide others; engaging, empowering and educating to create; Safe-Fun-Learning
MIAS
Mountain-Biking Instructor’s Award Scheme
From scenic forest trails to jumps and berms, the MIAS award allows you to take people out on the bike to explore.
Ethical Activities CIC can train and qualify you to lead bike rides with confidence.
Whether it is an in-house competence award, all the way to guiding riders down Black runs, we are a MIAS National Trainer, which means we can also help you become a tutor yourself, allowing you to deliver the MIAS course and getting more people on bikes.
The MIAS award will give you the full skillset to keep the group safe, deal with trailside mechanicals, route planning and progressing riders.
Assistant Leader
Non technical Terrain – (2 days) this award allows access into low-level terrain, with few potential hazards. This is a site specific award designed for organisations such as outdoor centres that primarily use MTB on site and the AMBL is working under the guidance of a qualified MIAS MTB member of staff.
Level 1
Non Technical Terrain – (2 days) this award allows access into low-level terrain, with few potential hazards, i.e. country parks, canal towpaths, and non-wilderness areas where help is almost immediately accessible. Includes blue forest trail routes.
Level 2
Technical Terrain – (2 days +) this award allows access into open country, with the potential hazards that surround such terrain. The leader will operate within 30 minutes of cycling assistance. AALS may also require you to hold additional qualifications to work in this terrain. Includes red forest trail routes
Level 3
Mountainous Terrain – (2 days +) this level covers areas defined as mountainous by the Mountain Training UK, but excludes ridges and potential hazardous routes such as ridges or routes involving scrambling. To lead groups on accessible routes to cyclists that are defined by map and ground. AALS may also require you to hold additional qualifications to work in this terrain e.g. ML, WGLA or equivalent MOD qualifications. Includes red/black forest trail routes.
Night Ride Bolt-on
To be used alongside the level 1,2 & 3, highlighting key skills, navigation and leadership needed to guide a ride at night.
Tutor – Level 4
Allowing you to train and assess Level 1
Tutor – Level 5
Allowing you to train and assess Level 2
Tutor Level 6
Allowing you to train and assess Level 3
Paddle UK
Paddle UK
(Formally British Canoeing)
Getting first time paddlers out on the water or leading groups down winding rivers and estuaries.
Ethical Activities CIC will equip you with all the knowledge and skills required to give you confidence to take people out on the water.
Starting with Personal Performance Awards, teaching you all the skills required to keep yourself safe and get the most out of your boating or boarding experiences. These can be done in canoe, kayak or paddleboard, in a range of environments.
Safety and Rescue courses, with so many craft out on the water, knowing how to safely recover a boat or person and get back on track is a highly important skill.
First time Fun, Paddlesport Instructor courses are designed to take a first time paddler out on the water and share the joy of paddlesport.
Leading with confidence, Paddlesport Leader trains and assesses you to take people further, down winding rivers or slow moving estuaries.
