This is part of a five part series of webinars. You can attend as many or as few of the series as you wish. The series is designed to showcase the work of the Paddle Scotland Access & Environment Group as well as a number of guest speakers working in the conservation area.

This is part of a six part series of webinars. You can attend as many or as few of the series as you wish. The series is designed to encourage clubs to share best practice, learn from each other and create a supportive environment for club volunteers to share their knowledge and learn from each other. Come along with questions to ask; these sessions will be based around a discussion on the evening’s topic amongst those present.

The series is designed for any SUP paddler and provides a chance to explore some topics with your host and fellow paddlers.

This webinar series, hosted by Matt Haydock, Senior Paddlesport Instructor at Glenmore Lodge, is designed for anyone who is either considering undertaking or preparing for a BC Leadership Award (any discipline) or anyone who is a qualified leader who would like to gain learning and have some input on their leadership practice. We'll look at the BC Leadership model and structure of the BC Leadership Awards, how you can get the most from a leadership training course, how you can best prepare for your assessment, and how the assessment is structured.

This is a seven part series of webinars. You can attend as many or as few of the series as you wish. The series is designed to help support inclusivity in paddlesports through highlighting the work of our Paddle Scotland Equality Groups. Whether you are a club member, on a club committee, interested in becoming a course provider or just a paddler looking to build knowledge and understanding of how to share the joy of paddlesports, this webinar series offers a great opportunity to hear from the Equality Groups.

This webinar series, hosted by Matt Haydock, Senior Paddlesport Instructor at Glenmore Lodge, is designed for any paddler of any craft that ventures out onto the sea for coastal paddles and wants to improve how they plan trips to ensure that they are safe and enjoyable. It is suitable for a wide variety of ability and experience levels - from those who are yet to take their first paddle strokes on the sea, to those who are experienced coastal paddlers. The series will look at the key aspects of planning and decision making, including weather and tidal predictions, along with an introduction to navigation and chartwork, plus what safety equipment is good to carry, guidance on using a marine VHF radio, and incident prevention and management.

This is a four part series of webinars. You can attend as many or as few of the series as you wish. The series is designed to help support club volunteers to learn more about the tools and support available to sustain development in their club setting. Whether through helping club members get qualified or fostering a positive club culture, these sessions will deliver pointers to help make your club as successful as it can be!

This webinar series, hosted by Matt Haydock, Senior Paddlesport Instructor at Glenmore Lodge, is designed for any paddler of any skill level who paddles any craft in any environment. Whether you head out for social paddles with friends on the river, organise club paddles on the sea, canoe expeditions, packraft trips, paddle as a family on sit on tops or any type of SUP journey - this webinar will look at how we can make any trip that we undertake as a group (however big or small) as safe and enjoyable as it can be. We'll look at how we can plan better, make decisions better, have better communication and a stronger social dynamic, and how we can have better leadership behaviours within our teams.

Information, advice, support and networking to help you on your journey to getting qualified with Gill Berrow. 

Laura Bennitt and Georgina Maxwell will talk through the challenges and opportunities professionally, physically, as a sponsored paddler and as a female in the outdoors providing courses at the top of the remit.

This session is aimed at those with responsibility for managing safeguarding within clubs, Delivery Partners, or others involved in the management structures of organisations. 

Prior to attending this session you should have completed the Child Wellbeing and Protection in Sport (CWPS) course, and ideally the Child Wellbeing and Protection Officer Training. 

This session will focus on the Paddle Scotland guidance on responding to wellbeing and protection concerns. 

Inspiring stories from game changers and how you could be a game changer. Hear from Ava Barton, young ambassador, and Niamh Lee, #shepaddles ambassador. 

Join Alison French to learn about her breadth of experience paddling on the sea and winter sea kayaking from the tropics to the poles.

Focus on some core based exercises you can do at home throughout the winter months to keep fit with Poppy Croal McKenzie. 

This session is aimed at those with responsibility for managing safeguarding within clubs, Delivery Partners, or others involved in the management structures of organisations. It is helpful to possess a basic understanding of child wellbeing and protection issues in advance, for example, having completed prior basic safeguarding training. 

The aim of the course is to provide an understanding of the nature of low level concerns and the importance of managing them appropriately and effectively within a sporting context.