First Tracks

About First Tracks

First Tracks provides young people (aged 13-21) with their first experience of snowsports at indoor snow centres in the UK throughout July and August every year. Over two days young people will learn how to ski or snowboard and will take part in life skills sessions focusing on independence, responsibility, confidence and self-esteem. 

Young people are taught how to ski or snowboard by qualified instructors and Snow Camp youth apprentices and volunteers, who have completed the courses in previous years. They are the best role models to demonstrate to the new young people what they can achieve with Snow Camp.

Young people are also supported by our Wellbeing Managers who are on hand to lend a ear while providing additional advice and guidance along with delivering workshops during the course.

At the end of the two days the young people will have made significant progress on the slopes and will have experienced, for the first time, the feeling of sliding down a ski slope, giving them an increased sense of achievement and a pride in what they have accomplished.

An awards ceremony closes the course, with the young people receiving their accredited Snowsport England or Snowsport Scotland Snow Life Award along with medals and certificates, providing a lasting record of their achievement and experience with us. It is always rewarding to see the impact of First Tracks on the young people, as they always achieve far more than they thought possible and many are keen to progress on to our Graduate course, which runs throughout the Autumn.

If you work with young people and would like to enrol them on First Tracks, please get in touch with the Programme Manager in your area.