NCC Guide Award Training & Assessments
NCC Guide Award Training & Assessments
NCC Guide Award
NCC Guide Award Training
NCC Guide Award Assessments
Recognised NCC Coasteering Guide Award Training & Assessment – Based in Dorset, delivered nationally
Operating from our home on the Dorset coast, with arguably some of the best coasteering venues in the UK, Jurassic Watersports provides official National Coasteering Charter (NCC) Guide Award training and assessments for individuals, outdoor centers and freelance guides.
The NCC’s core goal is to "Promote Safe Coasteering”. Which is exactly what we aim to do, with every training course or assessment we deliver!
When you train with us, you’re learning directly from an active and experienced Coasteering Guide, who is involved in the development of coasteering standards across the country. Our head trainer is a current NCC Regional Representative and a voting member of the NCC National Committee, helping shape national safety frameworks and best practices.
Our Trainer combines this active involvement with the NCC, with years of experience as a working Coasteering Guide and Outdoor Instructor, to deliver every aspect of training with a grounded, human approach, centred in the realities of working as an active Coasteering Leader.
Get your NCC Coasteering Guide Award with us in Dorset, or book get in touch to ask about us coming to you to deliver at your venue! Our Trainer is also available to travel to you and deliver ‘site specific’ or CPD training for you and your team, or to offer some Technical Advice and Guidance.
BOOK COURSES HERERecognised NCC Coasteering Guide Award Training & Assessment – Based in Dorset, delivered nationally
Operating from our home on the Dorset coast, with arguably some of the best coasteering venues in the UK, Jurassic Watersports provides official National Coasteering Charter (NCC) Guide Award training and assessments for individuals, outdoor centers and freelance guides.
The NCC’s core goal is to "Promote Safe Coasteering”. Which is exactly what we aim to do, with every training course or assessment we deliver!
When you train with us, you’re learning directly from an active and experienced Coasteering Guide, who is involved in the development of coasteering standards across the country. Our head trainer is a current NCC Regional Representative and a voting member of the NCC National Committee, helping shape national safety frameworks and best practices.
Our Trainer combines this active involvement with the NCC, with years of experience as a working Coasteering Guide and Outdoor Instructor, to deliver every aspect of training with a grounded, human approach, centred in the realities of working as an active Coasteering Leader.
Get your NCC Coasteering Guide Award with us in Dorset, or book get in touch to ask about us coming to you to deliver at your venue! Our Trainer is also available to travel to you and deliver ‘site specific’ or CPD training for you and your team, or to offer some Technical Advice and Guidance.
BOOK COURSES HEREWhat is the NCC Guide Award?
Do you want to love what you do as much as Miles does in this photo?
Completing your NCC Guide Award is a step towards becoming a professional Coasteering Guide!
The National Coasteering Charter (NCC) Guide Award is the only nationally recognised Coasteering Leader qualification in the UK. Established by the NCC and experienced industry experts to raise safety standards across the country, the award framework provides a structured pathway to train, assess, and qualify coasteering leaders in the core skills being a Guide requires. The award has also become the benchmark safety and leadership standard for commercial coasteering guides nationally.
Your Pathway to Becoming a Qualified Guide
For most candidates, the pathway looks something like:
Step 1 – Start Coasteering! You need to have experience and you need to know you enjoy it!
Step 2 – Attend a Training Course. Ran by an approved NCC Guide Award Provider, designed to teach you all the core skills you need to become a Coasteering Leader.
Step 3 – Consolidate. Following your training, you will be given an action plan to help guide you from where you are, to where you need to be. This is also the time for you to build experience and develop your skills, ready for an assessment.
Step 4 – Assessment. Once you have all your experience and requirements in place, you’ll arrange your Assessment. This is simply you running a session with an NCC Guide Award Provider watching you work. They will assess how you deliver, put you through your paces on certain skills and all being well - give you that certificate you’ve worked so hard for!
And that's you, a Qualified NCC Coasteering Guide!
NCC Guide Award Training Course
The National Coasteering Charter (NCC) Guide Award training course provides practical, hands-on training for aspiring and existing coasteering guides, combining technical skills, group management, environmental awareness, risk management, safety and rescue.
Whether you are looking to become a professional coasteering guide, develop your existing skills or work towards the NCC Coasteering Guide Award, our courses provide a structured and supportive environment in which to develop your leadership skills.
This course covers:
- Personal Skills
- Safety Leadership and Group Skills
- Rescue Skills
- Theory and
- Environment
£200.00pp (incl VAT @ 20%)
NCC Guide Award Assessment
Ready to demonstrate your skills as a coasteering guide?
An NCC Coasteering Guide Award assessments provides an opportunity for experienced coasteering guides to demonstrate the personal skills, leadership ability, technical knowledge and decision-making required to meet the National Coasteering Charter (NCC) Guide Award standard.
The assessment is practical and takes place in the coasteering environment, allowing candidates to demonstrate their ability to safely and effectively lead groups in realistic conditions.
Before booking an Assessment, you must:
- Be a NCC Member
- Register for the NCC Guide Award
- Have attended a NCC Guide Award Training course (or equivalent)
- Have evidence of a minimum of 30 hours Coasteering, cross 2 or more regions, in a variety of conditions and a variety of roles.
- Hold a recognised 2 day First Aid Qualification.
- Be over 18 Years old
£200.00pp (incl VAT @ 20%)
Why should we do the training with Jurassic Watersports?
Choosing the right provider for any training course can be tricky. There are many providers out there offering the same courses, so it can be hard to find the 'right one'.
So, what actually makes a provider different?
The trainers! Their experience, their style and how they teach!
Real Experience, Real Expertise
Our trainer isn’t just a local provider, they are an active NCC Regional Representative and a member of the NCC National Committee. By helping shape and update the national coasteering industry, our team brings unique, up-to-the-minute insight into industry standards, assessment criteria, and best practices. Our trainer is an experienced outdoor Instructor, current and active Coasteering Guide, a Trainer/Assessor for RLSS and an Operational Coastguard Rescue Officer.
Check out our Instagram or read our latest customer reviews!
Instagram: @Jurassicwatersports
Google: Jurassic Watersports
Do you want to love what you do as much as Miles does in this photo?
Completing your NCC Guide Award is a step towards becoming a professional Coasteering Guide!
The National Coasteering Charter (NCC) Guide Award is the only nationally recognised Coasteering Leader qualification in the UK. Established by the NCC and experienced industry experts to raise safety standards across the country, the award framework provides a structured pathway to train, assess, and qualify coasteering leaders in the core skills being a Guide requires. The award has also become the benchmark safety and leadership standard for commercial coasteering guides nationally.
Your Pathway to Becoming a Qualified Guide
For most candidates, the pathway looks something like:
Step 1 – Start Coasteering! You need to have experience and you need to know you enjoy it!
Step 2 – Attend a Training Course. Ran by an approved NCC Guide Award Provider, designed to teach you all the core skills you need to become a Coasteering Leader.
Step 3 – Consolidate. Following your training, you will be given an action plan to help guide you from where you are, to where you need to be. This is also the time for you to build experience and develop your skills, ready for an assessment.
Step 4 – Assessment. Once you have all your experience and requirements in place, you’ll arrange your Assessment. This is simply you running a session with an NCC Guide Award Provider watching you work. They will assess how you deliver, put you through your paces on certain skills and all being well - give you that certificate you’ve worked so hard for!
And that's you, a Qualified NCC Coasteering Guide!
The National Coasteering Charter (NCC) Guide Award training course provides practical, hands-on training for aspiring and existing coasteering guides, combining technical skills, group management, environmental awareness, risk management, safety and rescue.
Whether you are looking to become a professional coasteering guide, develop your existing skills or work towards the NCC Coasteering Guide Award, our courses provide a structured and supportive environment in which to develop your leadership skills.
This course covers:
- Personal Skills
- Safety Leadership and Group Skills
- Rescue Skills
- Theory and
- Environment
£200.00pp (incl VAT @ 20%)
Ready to demonstrate your skills as a coasteering guide?
An NCC Coasteering Guide Award assessments provides an opportunity for experienced coasteering guides to demonstrate the personal skills, leadership ability, technical knowledge and decision-making required to meet the National Coasteering Charter (NCC) Guide Award standard.
The assessment is practical and takes place in the coasteering environment, allowing candidates to demonstrate their ability to safely and effectively lead groups in realistic conditions.
Before booking an Assessment, you must:
- Be a NCC Member
- Register for the NCC Guide Award
- Have attended a NCC Guide Award Training course (or equivalent)
- Have evidence of a minimum of 30 hours Coasteering, cross 2 or more regions, in a variety of conditions and a variety of roles.
- Hold a recognised 2 day First Aid Qualification.
- Be over 18 Years old
£200.00pp (incl VAT @ 20%)
Choosing the right provider for any training course can be tricky. There are many providers out there offering the same courses, so it can be hard to find the 'right one'.
So, what actually makes a provider different?
The trainers! Their experience, their style and how they teach!
Real Experience, Real Expertise
Our trainer isn’t just a local provider, they are an active NCC Regional Representative and a member of the NCC National Committee. By helping shape and update the national coasteering industry, our team brings unique, up-to-the-minute insight into industry standards, assessment criteria, and best practices. Our trainer is an experienced outdoor Instructor, current and active Coasteering Guide, a Trainer/Assessor for RLSS and an Operational Coastguard Rescue Officer.
Check out our Instagram or read our latest customer reviews!
Instagram: @Jurassicwatersports
Google: Jurassic Watersports
Do you want to love what you do as much as Miles does in this photo?
Completing your NCC Guide Award is a step towards becoming a professional Coasteering Guide!
The National Coasteering Charter (NCC) Guide Award is the only nationally recognised Coasteering Leader qualification in the UK. Established by the NCC and experienced industry experts to raise safety standards across the country, the award framework provides a structured pathway to train, assess, and qualify coasteering leaders in the core skills being a Guide requires. The award has also become the benchmark safety and leadership standard for commercial coasteering guides nationally.
Your Pathway to Becoming a Qualified Guide
For most candidates, the pathway looks something like:
Step 1 – Start Coasteering! You need to have experience and you need to know you enjoy it!
Step 2 – Attend a Training Course. Ran by an approved NCC Guide Award Provider, designed to teach you all the core skills you need to become a Coasteering Leader.
Step 3 – Consolidate. Following your training, you will be given an action plan to help guide you from where you are, to where you need to be. This is also the time for you to build experience and develop your skills, ready for an assessment.
Step 4 – Assessment. Once you have all your experience and requirements in place, you’ll arrange your Assessment. This is simply you running a session with an NCC Guide Award Provider watching you work. They will assess how you deliver, put you through your paces on certain skills and all being well - give you that certificate you’ve worked so hard for!
And that's you, a Qualified NCC Coasteering Guide!
The National Coasteering Charter (NCC) Guide Award training course provides practical, hands-on training for aspiring and existing coasteering guides, combining technical skills, group management, environmental awareness, risk management, safety and rescue.
Whether you are looking to become a professional coasteering guide, develop your existing skills or work towards the NCC Coasteering Guide Award, our courses provide a structured and supportive environment in which to develop your leadership skills.
This course covers:
- Personal Skills
- Safety Leadership and Group Skills
- Rescue Skills
- Theory and
- Environment
£200.00pp (incl VAT @ 20%)
Ready to demonstrate your skills as a coasteering guide?
An NCC Coasteering Guide Award assessments provides an opportunity for experienced coasteering guides to demonstrate the personal skills, leadership ability, technical knowledge and decision-making required to meet the National Coasteering Charter (NCC) Guide Award standard.
The assessment is practical and takes place in the coasteering environment, allowing candidates to demonstrate their ability to safely and effectively lead groups in realistic conditions.
Before booking an Assessment, you must:
- Be a NCC Member
- Register for the NCC Guide Award
- Have attended a NCC Guide Award Training course (or equivalent)
- Have evidence of a minimum of 30 hours Coasteering, cross 2 or more regions, in a variety of conditions and a variety of roles.
- Hold a recognised 2 day First Aid Qualification.
- Be over 18 Years old
£200.00pp (incl VAT @ 20%)
Choosing the right provider for any training course can be tricky. There are many providers out there offering the same courses, so it can be hard to find the 'right one'.
So, what actually makes a provider different?
The trainers! Their experience, their style and how they teach!
Real Experience, Real Expertise
Our trainer isn’t just a local provider, they are an active NCC Regional Representative and a member of the NCC National Committee. By helping shape and update the national coasteering industry, our team brings unique, up-to-the-minute insight into industry standards, assessment criteria, and best practices. Our trainer is an experienced outdoor Instructor, current and active Coasteering Guide, a Trainer/Assessor for RLSS and an Operational Coastguard Rescue Officer.
Check out our Instagram or read our latest customer reviews!
Instagram: @Jurassicwatersports
Google: Jurassic Watersports
Our trainer meets the NCC recommended criteria for a “Coasteering Technical Expert”, as required by The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 and The Adventure Activity Licencing Regulations 2004. We can come to you, deliver training tailored to your needs and provide Technical Advice and Guidance. Get in touch if there is anything we can help you with at Training@JurassicWatersports.co.uk.
Our trainer meets the NCC recommended criteria for a “Coasteering Technical Expert”, as required by The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 and The Adventure Activity Licencing Regulations 2004. We can come to you, deliver training tailored to your needs and provide Technical Advice and Guidance. Get in touch if there is anything we can help you with at Training@JurassicWatersports.co.uk.
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If you have a group of people to put through a course, we can arrange a course for you, which will be charged at a day rate + costs, rather then per person. Give us shout if you need us to provide a quote for this.
If you have any other questions, please fill in the enquiry form below, email Training@jurassicwatersports.co.uk, or use the 'Contact Us' page. Our team are here to help!
For all Regulated RLSS First Aid and Water Safety qualifications, they have a minimum age of 16. However, if you have a group of young people you'd like to get involved, we can arrange this for you!
All of our Regulated Qualifications are awarded by RLSS, a Awarding Organisation under Ofqual.
There is no prior experience required to take part in any of our courses. With exception to a First Aid At Work Requalification.
Yes! Some of our courses can be combined. Get in touch with the team to chat about putting a programme together to get you were you need to be.
View our policy here:
100% All of our our Regulated Qualifications are awarded by RLSS, a Awarding Organisation under Ofqual. Meaning they carry the Ofqual badge of approval, recognised across the country and internationally. All training, regulated or not, are HSE compliant and meet nationally recognised standards.
FAQ's
If you have a group of people to put through a course, we can arrange a course for you, which will be charged at a day rate + costs, rather then per person. Give us shout if you need us to provide a quote for this.
If you have any other questions, please fill in the enquiry form below, email Training@jurassicwatersports.co.uk, or use the 'Contact Us' page. Our team are here to help!
For all Regulated RLSS First Aid and Water Safety qualifications, they have a minimum age of 16. However, if you have a group of young people you'd like to get involved, we can arrange this for you!
All of our Regulated Qualifications are awarded by RLSS, a Awarding Organisation under Ofqual.
There is no prior experience required to take part in any of our courses. With exception to a First Aid At Work Requalification.
Yes! Some of our courses can be combined. Get in touch with the team to chat about putting a programme together to get you were you need to be.
View our policy here:
100% All of our our Regulated Qualifications are awarded by RLSS, a Awarding Organisation under Ofqual. Meaning they carry the Ofqual badge of approval, recognised across the country and internationally. All training, regulated or not, are HSE compliant and meet nationally recognised standards.