CTC Activity Provider Approval Scheme
Learning Outside the Classroom and Adventuremark
CTC approve cycle, mountain bike and multi-activity providers with the Learning Outside the Classroom (LOtC) and Adventuremark (AM) badges.
These approvals are UK wide and enable activity providers to instil confidence about their competencies, procedures and quality of service with their customers, whether it's in a Bikeability on the school playing fields context or undertaking the mountainous C2C (Coast to Coast) over 8 days.
LOtC badging is a requirement of many schools and Local Education Authorities for selection of activity providers, whether these are museum
visits or outdoor activity residentials. Designed to ensure that school pupils and young people gain appropriate and needs led
learning opportunities that are integrated to their other learning environments, LOtC helps apply, contextualise and put into
practice real personal development. It does what is says on the tin and embeds learning in non conventional environments.
Adventuremark is a verification of the safety requirement of all activity providers as part of effective and safe
application of the outdoors through mechanisms that might range from archery to zipwires, including cycling and mountain biking.
Adventuremark provides a mechanism to define safe principles, protocols and procedures primarily for activities that fall outside of the Adventure Activities Licencing requirements (includes all road based cycling, and offroad cycling below 600m and less than 2.5km from emergency contact and/or road). Adventuremark is a stand alone verification for adults, or forms part of LOtC when providing for young people.
LOtC inspections include verification of Adventuremark unless a relevant Adventure Activities Licence is held
CTC and the Inspectors
CTC use their extensive range of highly experienced staff based across the UK to provide a full inspection and support service
throughout the country.
As the UK's National Cyclists Organisation with 130 years experience of supporting cycling, CTC has an umatched resource in the depth and quality of it's course tutors and employees. With experience ranging from Heads of LEA Outdoor Centres to AALS Inspectors, teachers and activity providers themselves, we are incredibly suited to provide inspections for LOtC and Adventuremark.
As skilled and highly qualified practitioners in a wide range of outdoor activities, we are able to fulfil multi-activity provision in single inspections. Further, our ethos of achievement through needs led development means that we are able to support your application from the first stage to the last.
Find out more
General information is available at:
For more information on CTC's approvals provision and to book, please contact CTC MTB.