Apprenticeships

About our Apprenticeships

Every year several young people, who have completed our Excel course, are provided with paid, full-time employment for 1 year at Snow Camp.

Snow Camp apprentices, aged 16-21, gain valuable experience from working on all our courses, alongside work placements across the snowsports industry and qualifications. Apprentices are also provided with opportunities to work at national and international snowsports events and have access to mental wellbeing workshops as well as 1-1 counselling sessions.

Youth-to-youth training and development is essential to our organisation. We know that the young people on our courses are more likely to engage with our activities if our apprentices and youth volunteers are a key component of the training plan. Not only is this empowering for our youth volunteers and apprentices, but it’s also inspirational for the new young people. Many young people will know these young instructors from their neighbourhoods and youth organisations showing them what they themselves could achieve.

Our Apprenticeships are designed for individuals who want to gain a broad experience and a solid foundation to support a career in the snowsports industry. They gain key qualifications and practical work experience in snowsports instructing, together with mentoring, coaching and leadership skills.

In partnership with our training providers Channel Training, SD Consultancy and BASI our apprentices work towards either an NVQ Standard in Community Activator Coach or an SVQ in Sports Coaching and a BASI Level 1 Instructor Qualification. All 3 qualifications provide further skills needed to gain employment in the snowsports industry.

Young people can only attend this programme if they have completed our Excel Course and they apply directly to their Programme Manager in May/June each year.