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Planning notes for small organisations running outdoor programmes without a professional operations team.

Group of young people outdoors — Written for volunteers and teachers, not for commercial operators.

Guidance for outdoor work tends to come in two forms: formal qualification material, which is rightly rigorous and assumes you are already in a structured organisation, and informal advice passed between volunteers, which is practical but inconsistent.

These pages sit in between: the planning decisions that shape a week, written plainly, for people organising something small and taking the responsibility seriously.

What is deliberately not here: instruction in technical skills, safeguarding procedure and anything that depends on local law. Those require qualification, training and the policies of the organisation you are running under — not a web page.

Nothing is sponsored and no supplier or provider is recommended. Corrections from people running programmes are welcome and are how most of these pages have been revised.