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NEW CLIMBER? COMPLETE FORMS
8-16s
Bouldering classes
NICAS Bouldering (8-16s)
NICAS Bouldering is a great way for young people to start climbing. NICAS is the National Indoor Climbing Award Scheme.
Our classes, which run on Saturdays and Sundays work through a 5 level structure that starts with safe and simple bouldering and moves all the way up to high-performance climbing. Each level will take the youngster a little longer to complete than the previous one as it builds skills, knowledge, confidence and performance. The candidate logbook costs £7.50 which needs to be purchased when the child is enrolled onto level 1 of the award.
If your child is coming to NICAS classes for the first time, we’d advise that you arrive 20 minutes earlier to watch our safety video and complete a registration form.
STRUCTURED DEVELOPMENT
NICAS is the perfect structure to lead young boulderers as they develop but is also great for Duke of Edinburgh and other awards. If your child would prefer to attend roped climbing classes, we run these at The Prop Store in Maryhill.
Youth Climbers Club
Youth Climbers club is a chilled class for young people aged 13 and up to come along and receive some pointers from an instructor. They are welcome to bring their NICAS Logbooks if they wish. When we are able to restart the youth climbers club, bookable sessions will appear in the link below.
| Block Number | Block Dates | Block bookings go live | Single session bookings go live |
| Block 1 (7 weeks) | 20/08/22 – 08/10/22* | FINISHED | FINISHED |
| Block 2 (8 weeks) | 29/10/22 – 17/12/22 | FINISHED | FINISHED |
| Block 3 (5 weeks) | 07/01/23 – 04/02/23 | FINISHED | FINISHED |
| Block 4 (6 weeks) | 18/02/23 – 25/03/23 | OPEN NOW | OPEN NOW |
| Block 5 (7 weeks) | 22/04/23 – 17/06/23** | 29/03/2023 | 24/04/2023 |
Sessions will not run on the following holidays:
Sep weekend: 24-25/09/2022
Oct break: 15-22/10/2022
Christmas: 24-31/12/2022
Mid-term break: 11-12/02/2023
Easter: 01-15/04/2023
Mayday: 29-30/04/2023
May weekend: 27-28/05/2023
BOOKING
IF ABOVE WIDGET ISN’T WORKING, PLEASE CLICK NICAS BOULDERING LEVEL 1
To block book a term of classes or to book single sessions
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