Coaching Courses

BC Paddlesport Instructor

The Paddlesport Instructor course is ideal for people wanting to deliver safe and enjoyable taster sessions in very sheltered water. Perfect for clubs or centres with an on-site pond or a very sheltered bay in a larger body of water.

We are run British Canoeing Paddlesport Instructor courses right here in the North East of Scotland so local paddlers don’t need to travel. Scheduled over a weekend so are ideal for club paddlers. We can also travel to your group to reduce overall travel.

Paddlesport Instructor cost is £190. If booking this together with the FSRT we can offer both courses for £230 plus FSRT certification fees.

To help offset some of these costs SportScotland provide scholarship funding of £75 towards Paddlesport Instructor (Level 1 for SportScotland), this can be applied for online here:
https://sportscotland.org.uk/funding/ukcc-subsidy-for-coaches/

If there are any questions or to book into the course simply Contact Us and we will send through our booking form.

Shetlered Water Coach Award

The Sheltered Water Coach Award is a great award for coaches looking to get onto sheltered water and develop peoples skills. As a Sheltered Water Coach you’ll be able to take people out and develop their paddling skills up to 200m offshore and on a very slow moving river.

Sheltered Water Training is £200 with no prerequsites required. Assessments are flexible with most clients asking us to come and assess them in their normal environment with the people they normally coach to make the process as relaxed as possible, this is £170 locally to Aberdeen and slightly more around the country.

Contact Us and we can give you details depending on your requirements.

To help offset some of these costs SportScotland provide scholarship funding of £350 towards Coach Award (Level 2 for SportScotland), this can be applied for online here:
https://sportscotland.org.uk/funding/ukcc-subsidy-for-coaches/

White Water Kayak Water Coach Award

The White Water Kayak Coach Award is a ideal award for coaches looking to get onto white water and develop peoples skills. As a White Water Coach you’ll be able to take people out and develop their paddling skills on grade 2(3) rivers.

White Water Kayak Coach Training is £200, you do need to already be a White Water Kayak Leader before coming on this course but we can also do that, for details click here. Assessments are flexible with most clients asking us to come and assess them in their normal environment with the people they normally coach to make the process as relaxed as possible, this is £170 locally to Aberdeen and slightly more around the country.

Contact Us and we can give you details depending on your requirements.

To help offset some of these costs SportScotland provide scholarship funding of £350 towards Coach Award (Level 2 for SportScotland), this can be applied for online here:
https://sportscotland.org.uk/funding/ukcc-subsidy-for-coaches/