The Team
Vid Blakeney
Vid's background includes completing a contract with the Spanish Foreign Legion, 3 years as a full time Fire-fighter, an apprenticeship in welding, several years in the construction and engineering industries. He has spent the last 12 years working in outdoor pursuits. He is a qualified canoe coach, climbing instructor and mountain leader. He has worked on many high ropes courses and has been involved in training hundreds of staff in their use. He has also worked as a resources Manager for several of the major UK outdoor providers buying ropes courses from many of the other UK suppliers.
Jill
Shortly after qualifying as a Renal Nurse Jill took a summer break working at an outdoor centre in France running the office and taking care of first aid. The next year she was appointed as Centre Manager which was the start of a busy career in outdoor pursuits. Over the last ten years she has travelled all over the world leading expeditions, working as an medic on river expeditions and high altitude projects. Along the way she has attended Tropical medicine courses and is a qualified L3 canoe coach and Mountain Leader. She is in charge of the Head Office team whilst looking after her 3 young sons.
JY
JY started his career as a raft guide and ski pro in his native Canada. He has been involved in the construction industry all over the world and in the mining business in Australia. He has been living in the UK for the last 20 years. During this time he has worked as a Senior Instructor training centre staff, managed several outdoor centres both in the UK and Europe and worked as a resources Manager for two of the largest UK outdoor activity companies.
He now manages Rope Course Supplies overseeing our depot in Worcester, supervises adventure net production and manages our logistics
Associates
Andrew Bucklitch - Arboreal Consultant
Andrew - affectionately know as 'Prof' is a full time woodlands officer for Bromsgrove District Council, who in his spare time is actively involved in helping run a Scouting centre. When required he acts as our consultant in all matters relating to trees.
He has a varied background which includes several years as an Officer in the Royal Navy Reserve where he spent considerable time annoying Spanish fishermen, working as a paddling guide in Canada on remote expeditions and working as a mountain guide in Switzerland.
Steve Warnock - Civil Engineer
Steve Warnock, from the Godalming Offices of Scott Wilson, does all the loading calculations for our designs of Adventure Constructions, ensuring that they conform to construction/engineering industry standards - that is when he is not paddling high grade rivers in the Himalaya!
Dave Clare - Testing Services
Provide the testing services for our high ropes construction equipment, ensuring compliance to ALL the relevant standards. Dave has worked all over the world in the 'lifting business' and has an un-paralleled experience in this field.
Dave and his team take enormous pleasure in comprehensively destroying everything we give them to test.
ERCA
We are members of the European Ropes Course Association. We believe that by belonging to this organisation and adhering to their standards and regulations our customers can have an added level of confidence in our products.
Jardine Lloyd Thompson Insurance Brokers
Supply us with our Product, Public and Employee Liability Insurance Policies.
BSI
We are member of the British Standards which keeps us up to speed on all the latest developments
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Thursday, 19 August 2010
Rope Course Construction
