High Quality and Safety Concious Provision
The safety of all young people visiting the Ultimate Adventure Centre is our main priority. One of the biggest concerns for staff and perhaps more importantly the parents is the quality and safety of the provider. The Ultimate Adventure Centre has a long and proud record of being able to provide outdoor activities that are fun and ultimately safe. The health and safety and safeguarding of all of the young people who visit our centre is paramount, leaving one less thing for you to worry about.
The Ultimate Adventure Centre is an AALA (Adventure Activities Licensing Authority) approved provider. This is the mandatory requirement for centres offering adventure activities to young people under the age of 18. Safety Standards, staff training, child safe guarding, risk assessments and operating procedures are some of the regularly inspected elements of our business. To help facilitate your trip we can provide all relevant documentation and can also come to your school to meet the children, staff and parents if required.
Trained and Qualified Staff
The lead instructor at the Ultimate Adventure Centre is Russ Johns. Russ began his career as a teacher in Key Stages 1 and 2 and has always demonstrated a love for the outdoors. His passion for outdoor activities started with the Duke of Edinburgh scheme, Ten Tors and the Scouts and has led him to pursue a career in the outdoors. This dual focus of education and the outdoor environment provides us with a great base to work with Schools and Colleges.
Russ has gained many professional qualifications in his many years in the outdoor industry. He holds the Mountaineering Instructor Award (MIA), RLSS Beach Life Guard, All Terrain Boarding Association (ATBA) Qualified Instructor and he personally signs off the on site training for all members of staff. Our staff hold the relevant industry recognised qualifications for their activities including RNLI Beach Lifegaurd, MIA, BCU, ATBA. All of our staff across the site have current DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) certificates, and are all trained in our Child Safeguarding Policies.
All the Necessary Paperwork
Shortly after you book your day trip or residential experience with us you will be provided with an outline schedule. There’s opportunity to tweak this as necessary to make sure all of the activities, meals, tuck shop and accommodation work for you. You will also be provided with all of the relevant Risk Assessments, Child Safeguarding Policy and Insurance Documentation as required. We are already registered on Devon County Council’s Evolve system, but we can complete an SEO5 or similar form as required.
A large number of schools that visit us complete an on site Risk Assessments before the residntial. We are happy to provide for this and for schools or colleges that are based a little further away we can provide overnight accommodation for your visit if necessary. We are also happy to visit schools or colleges in the North Devon area to meet with the young people, parents and teachers before the residential to address any concerns. We will provide a kit list and more detailed program for your stay with us shortly before the event.
Award Winning Centre
Delivering high quality, safe and fun activities is one of the core missions of our business. We are constantly benchmarking our provision on both a local and national basis. One of the key things that we measure is the feedback we get from our customers. We have a detailed feedback and review process for all of the schools and colleges that visit us. This feedback then helps us get even better.
We have been lucky enough to be recognised by others for the level or provision we offer. Trip Advisor is now many people’s guide to the level of service offered by a company, we are immensely proud to have been awarded the Trip Advisor Certificate of Excelellence for 2014 and 2105. In addition to this the Ultimate Assault was chosen by the Guardian newspaper as one on it’s top 10 Outdoor Activities for Kids. On a local level, 2015 has seen us awarded Bronze in the Devon Tourism Awards in the Active and Sporting Experience category.
