Apprentices' Training Events If you believe in investing in your young people because they hold the future success of your company in their hands, then why not give them a flying start to their careers with the best available apprentices training & personal development residentials ? Peak Activities training specialists can tailor our tried and trusted approach to suit your organisation's young persons' specific training needs... Printing Industry Apprentices undergoing jolly teambuilding training in Edale... Since 1981 Peak Activities Ltd has been tailoring high quality bespoke leadership training courses and development training residentials for modern apprentices, police cadets and new recruits to the police and other uniformed services. Customers' comments and repeat bookings suggest we offer good value for money as well as outstanding training...indoors & outdoors.
Apprentices' Training Events
If you believe in investing in your young people because they hold the future success of your company in their hands, then why not give them a flying start to their careers with the best available apprentices training & personal development residentials ? Peak Activities training specialists can tailor our tried and trusted approach to suit your organisation's young persons' specific training needs...
Printing Industry Apprentices undergoing jolly teambuilding training in Edale...
Since 1981 Peak Activities Ltd has been tailoring high quality bespoke leadership training courses and development training residentials for modern apprentices, police cadets and new recruits to the police and other uniformed services.
Customers' comments and repeat bookings suggest we offer good value for money as well as outstanding training...indoors & outdoors.
ALL OF PEAK ACTIVITIES 4 and 7 NIGHT APPRENTICES' RESIDENTIALS ARE DESIGNED & RUN BY OUR OWN HIGHLY QUALIFIED TRAINERS & CIPD ACCREDITED PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT SPECIALISTS. ..................... CHOOSE FROM FOUR PARTNER ACCOMMODATION VENUES.
ALL OF PEAK ACTIVITIES 4 and 7 NIGHT APPRENTICES' RESIDENTIALS ARE DESIGNED & RUN BY OUR OWN HIGHLY QUALIFIED TRAINERS & CIPD ACCREDITED PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT SPECIALISTS.
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CHOOSE FROM FOUR PARTNER ACCOMMODATION VENUES.
Discerning clients who have chosen to use Peak Activities Ltd for training apprentices have included Volvo Construction Equipment, Babcock Naval Engineering, Lucas Aerospace, Robert Bosch GmbH, G.E.C. Large Machines, Lincolnshire Police, Guernsey Police, Hampshire Fire Brigade & Rescue, British Steel, British Coal, the USAF, the RAF and many others. We are not the cheapest providers of quality accommodation and training for your people ...but we do offer clients outstanding reliability and value and the highest quality of effective lasting training to get your apprentices off to a flying start in their careers within your organisation's specific ethos and traditions. Please note .... * OUR TRAINERS DON'T WORK FOR ANY OTHER PROVIDERS. * ALL OUR TRAINING EXERCISES ARE UNIQUE TO OUR COMPANY. * NOT ALL CENTRES OFFER THE SAME OLD STUFF ! WE ONLY USE OUR OWN TRIED & TRUSTED UNIQUE EXCLUSIVE TRAINING METHODS. * WE PROMISE WE WON'T LET YOU DOWN - well, except on the end of a rope perhaps ! * YOUR APPRENTICES WILL HAVE FUN AND FEEL THEY'VE LEARNED A LOT BOTH INDIVIDUALLY & COLLECTIVELY... Wing Commander Peter Daughtrey (left) & Dr. Iain Jennings* (right) and their expert training team at Peak Activities Ltd. have been designing & running successsful, safe and enjoyable tailored development training courses for cadets and groups of modern apprentices for many years. Our team offers a wealth of expertise. * Iain Jennings is a Registered Consultant and Chartered Fellow of the UK's prestigious Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development. Dr. Andy MacLean - Development Trainer ................................. Steve Charles - Senior Trainer Courses for apprentices can address training needs relating to personal development, communications, planning, decision-making, boosting trust, team working, reviewing skills, leadership qualities, leadership styles and managing teams. Personal skills and qualities such as self-confidence, taking personal responsibility for one's own development, decision-making, communications skills, problem-solving, working well in small teams and setting high personal goals are commonly occurring themes in such events...and Peak Activities Ltd's staff have developed some very successful, unique ways to inculcate these qualities amongst apprentices. Other key topics covered during courses may include considerations of health & safety issues, customer care skills, quality assurance, and getting the most of working alongside older, more experienced workers....the essence of the apprenticeship style of learning as far as we are concerned. Peak Activities Ltd's CIPD qualified consultants work closely with your training managers and company's directors before each course commences to ensure your apprentices & cadets get just the right blend of indoor and outdoor training elements - tailored to elicit just the right outcomes. As an AALA Licenced centre we can be trusted to run events for your organisation's under-18's safely and reliably....and your over 18's will be well looked after too. Prices for an action-filled 5-day programme now start from as little as £559 + vat per apprentice / cadet including budget accommodation. There are no hidden costs. The resulting benefits for your organisation and your apprentices will last a lifetime ! CASE STUDIES : APPRENTICE TRAINING PROJECTS
Discerning clients who have chosen to use Peak Activities Ltd for training apprentices have included Volvo Construction Equipment, Babcock Naval Engineering, Lucas Aerospace, Robert Bosch GmbH, G.E.C. Large Machines, Lincolnshire Police, Guernsey Police, Hampshire Fire Brigade & Rescue, British Steel, British Coal, the USAF, the RAF and many others.
We are not the cheapest providers of quality accommodation and training for your people ...but we do offer clients outstanding reliability and value and the highest quality of effective lasting training to get your apprentices off to a flying start in their careers within your organisation's specific ethos and traditions.
Please note ....
* OUR TRAINERS DON'T WORK FOR ANY OTHER PROVIDERS. * ALL OUR TRAINING EXERCISES ARE UNIQUE TO OUR COMPANY. * NOT ALL CENTRES OFFER THE SAME OLD STUFF ! WE ONLY USE OUR OWN TRIED & TRUSTED UNIQUE EXCLUSIVE TRAINING METHODS. * WE PROMISE WE WON'T LET YOU DOWN - well, except on the end of a rope perhaps !
* YOUR APPRENTICES WILL HAVE FUN AND FEEL THEY'VE LEARNED A LOT BOTH INDIVIDUALLY & COLLECTIVELY...
* Iain Jennings is a Registered Consultant and Chartered Fellow of the UK's prestigious Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development.
Dr. Andy MacLean - Development Trainer ................................. Steve Charles - Senior Trainer
Courses for apprentices can address training needs relating to personal development, communications, planning, decision-making, boosting trust, team working, reviewing skills, leadership qualities, leadership styles and managing teams. Personal skills and qualities such as self-confidence, taking personal responsibility for one's own development, decision-making, communications skills, problem-solving, working well in small teams and setting high personal goals are commonly occurring themes in such events...and Peak Activities Ltd's staff have developed some very successful, unique ways to inculcate these qualities amongst apprentices. Other key topics covered during courses may include considerations of health & safety issues, customer care skills, quality assurance, and getting the most of working alongside older, more experienced workers....the essence of the apprenticeship style of learning as far as we are concerned.
Peak Activities Ltd's CIPD qualified consultants work closely with your training managers and company's directors before each course commences to ensure your apprentices & cadets get just the right blend of indoor and outdoor training elements - tailored to elicit just the right outcomes.
As an AALA Licenced centre we can be trusted to run events for your organisation's under-18's safely and reliably....and your over 18's will be well looked after too. Prices for an action-filled 5-day programme now start from as little as £559 + vat per apprentice / cadet including budget accommodation. There are no hidden costs. The resulting benefits for your organisation and your apprentices will last a lifetime !
CASE STUDIES : APPRENTICE TRAINING PROJECTS
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VOLVO CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT Apprentice Service Engineers.
Volvo's Construction Equipment Division has an enviable reputation for selling large and small construction and extractive industries equipment which is very reliable and very ruggedly built. They supply wheeled and tracked bulldozers, back hoe diggers, scrapers and excavators and a host of other materials handling equipment such as dumper trucks and road making equipment. However, even the best equipment in the world needs servicing maintenance & engineering support for those rare but potentially costly times when things go wrong. To that end Volvo CE employs numbers of highly trained service engineers in the UK at nationwide depots who may have to repair very large machines safely and efficiently - often working alone or in small teams in quite tough, exposed conditions such as quarries and mines or remote building sites. Volvo's service engineers need to be highly trained and self motivated, safety-conscious and hard working customer focussed individuals - and the apprentices need to be hungry to learn best practise and the highest possible levels of professionalism working alongside their older colleagues and peers. Many of Volvo's management are time served apprentices themselves who fully appreciate that the apprentice learning model is a sound one.
Peak Activities Ltd are proud to have been asked to help in the training and development of Volvo CE's young people on their Engineering Apprenticeship scheme....providing the highest possible standard of tailored residential training & development programmes in Derbyshire's Peak District for Volvo's 17, 18, 19 and 20 year olds.
Above : Engineering Apprentices from Volvo CE out with their Health & Safety Officer, Mr Simon Smith ( abseiling ) during a 5-day course based in the accessible Peak District tailored for Volvo C.E. by our directors Iain & Peter.
Planning for this bespoke course involved meetings in the Peak District and at the company's Headquarters in Cambridgeshire with our most senior training staff and it was agreed this careful preparation helped everyone to make the most of this training initiative and helped the apprentices focus on key learning points for anyone joining the Volvo C.E. family.
The apprentices particularly appreciated the way that several senior members of their company took time from busy schedules to come along and join in with some of their training sessions with us....including the UK's Service and Engineering Director, Paul Kersley, who spent the whole of the apprentice's last day with them...including working as a assistant to one of the apprentices who very successfully tackled a difficult final team problem involving an underground surveying task to generate some logistics cost benefits analyses. When people such as busy Depot Managers and the HR Directors of companies like Volvo C.E. get involved in the training of apprentices you always know there's a real, true commitment to investing in the future success of the company...and it's often the case that such senior staff are ex-apprentice engineers themselves who believe in the apprenticeship way of learning...
Above left : Training review session in Derbyshire for Volvo CE 's apprentices in the grounds of one of our conference venues. Reviewing the performance of the individual members or the team and the team's overall performance is a fundamental element of our tried and proven task based problem solving approach to learning and tranferrring of skills. We use a number of different ways to review individual's and team's performances.
If like Volvo CE's managers and directors you value the Apprentices under your aegis and you have specific requirements for Apprentice Training in the pipeline, why not give Peak Activities Ltd's trainers a call on 01433-650345 to outline what your apprentices need from your targeted training investments ? We'll be happy to help you.
Our young people are your organisation's success stories & wealth for tomorrow ! We promise we won't let you or your young people down !
FAQ : What is the ideal sized group ?
Answer: From our experience we reckon that 6 to 14 apprentices per course is an ideal size. If you have more apprentices we can run sequences of events for you or run two courses in parallel.
FAQ : What is the best way to make further enquiries ?
Answer: Just pick up the phone, talk to us and confirm that you a training budget holder and decision maker - and then we can arrange for you to visit us and ( if necessary ) put you in touch with some of our clients.
Please call us soon on 01433-650345. You could be surprised at the exceptional value for money we can offer you ...
We are now taking bookings for apprentice training training weeks for next year.
CASE STUDIES : Lincolnshire Police Cadets
....LINCOLNSHIRE POLICE AUTHORITY
Training & Development for Young Cadets from Lincolnshire Police.
Click on the link for further information and pictures.... Dear Iain, Caroline, Dave, Simon, and Andy, Just a note to thank you all for the brilliant residential training week you designed and ran for our party of police cadets. As usual, the feedback from this, the third year's event with you and the reports from all the cadets attending were more than positive ( comments like "12 out of 10" and "why can't we stay there longer next time ?" ). We hope to be there again soon*. Thanks again. Best wishes, P.C. V. Mawer - 2006. Click to return to top of this page. * They were back soon too...in 2006, 2007, 2008 and again in 2009. Vanessa and Phil are now frequent & regular clients !
Click on the link for further information and pictures....
Dear Iain, Caroline, Dave, Simon, and Andy, Just a note to thank you all for the brilliant residential training week you designed and ran for our party of police cadets. As usual, the feedback from this, the third year's event with you and the reports from all the cadets attending were more than positive ( comments like "12 out of 10" and "why can't we stay there longer next time ?" ). We hope to be there again soon*. Thanks again. Best wishes,
P.C. V. Mawer - 2006. Click to return to top of this page. * They were back soon too...in 2006, 2007, 2008 and again in 2009. Vanessa and Phil are now frequent & regular clients !
Left Lincolnshire Police Cadet & one of their dedicated Trainers - PC Vanessa Mawer Right : Vanessa and her colleague Phil attempting to break the world crate stacking record !
Development Training for new recruits for Guernsey Police.
A carefully modified version of one of our mature apprentices programmes has been employed successfully by Guernsey police several times in recent years to accelerate the team building process amongst new recruits to the island's police force. We have been informed by their senior management that the package we can offer the States of Jersey police based here in Derbyshire more than amply justifies the time and cost of flying the recruits over here. We appreciate that clients' have a vast array of places to choose from - so we try our best to try to meet all their needs. TRAINING FOR GROUPS FROM THE ROYAL AIR FORCE Peak Activities have been employed by numerous cadet groups and parties of serving trainees from the RAF requiring safe, reliable and high quality tailored training residentials and adventurous training run by civilian fully NGB qualified instructors with full insurance. Numerous CCF ATC and Air Cadets parties have also used our facilities very successfully for short and longer duration programmes. We have welcomed groups from many bases including RAF Brampton, RAF Colitishall, RAF College Cranwell, RAF Lakenheath, RAF Marham, RAF Wyton, and elsewhere. For sample of clients' comments please refer to our clients' comments web page ( click link). OUR NATO ACCREDITED SUPPLIER NCAGE REF. IS U4F57 OUR MOD ISIS DATABASE REF. IS CTSUKNCB/12/17/22 Peak Activities has also been employed by the USAF ( Kaiserlautern, Brindisi, RAF Croughton, RAF Feltwell, Zeppelinheim, RAF Upwood, Aviano, Adana.) For example residentials addressing drug demand reduction and drug demand awareness have been run for young people and military police officers from RAF / USAF Lakenheath. CASE STUDY : NAVAL ENGINEERING APPRENTICE TRAINING
A carefully modified version of one of our mature apprentices programmes has been employed successfully by Guernsey police several times in recent years to accelerate the team building process amongst new recruits to the island's police force. We have been informed by their senior management that the package we can offer the States of Jersey police based here in Derbyshire more than amply justifies the time and cost of flying the recruits over here. We appreciate that clients' have a vast array of places to choose from - so we try our best to try to meet all their needs.
TRAINING FOR GROUPS FROM THE ROYAL AIR FORCE
Peak Activities have been employed by numerous cadet groups and parties of serving trainees from the RAF requiring safe, reliable and high quality tailored training residentials and adventurous training run by civilian fully NGB qualified instructors with full insurance. Numerous CCF ATC and Air Cadets parties have also used our facilities very successfully for short and longer duration programmes. We have welcomed groups from many bases including RAF Brampton, RAF Colitishall, RAF College Cranwell, RAF Lakenheath, RAF Marham, RAF Wyton, and elsewhere. For sample of clients' comments please refer to our clients' comments web page ( click link). OUR NATO ACCREDITED SUPPLIER NCAGE REF. IS U4F57 OUR MOD ISIS DATABASE REF. IS CTSUKNCB/12/17/22 Peak Activities has also been employed by the USAF ( Kaiserlautern, Brindisi, RAF Croughton, RAF Feltwell, Zeppelinheim, RAF Upwood, Aviano, Adana.) For example residentials addressing drug demand reduction and drug demand awareness have been run for young people and military police officers from RAF / USAF Lakenheath.
Peak Activities have been employed by numerous cadet groups and parties of serving trainees from the RAF requiring safe, reliable and high quality tailored training residentials and adventurous training run by civilian fully NGB qualified instructors with full insurance. Numerous CCF ATC and Air Cadets parties have also used our facilities very successfully for short and longer duration programmes.
We have welcomed groups from many bases including RAF Brampton, RAF Colitishall, RAF College Cranwell, RAF Lakenheath, RAF Marham, RAF Wyton, and elsewhere. For sample of clients' comments please refer to our clients' comments web page ( click link).
OUR NATO ACCREDITED SUPPLIER NCAGE REF. IS U4F57
OUR MOD ISIS DATABASE REF. IS CTSUKNCB/12/17/22
Peak Activities has also been employed by the USAF ( Kaiserlautern, Brindisi, RAF Croughton, RAF Feltwell, Zeppelinheim, RAF Upwood, Aviano, Adana.) For example residentials addressing drug demand reduction and drug demand awareness have been run for young people and military police officers from RAF / USAF Lakenheath.
CASE STUDY : NAVAL ENGINEERING APPRENTICE TRAINING
Cost effective Leadership & Personal Development training in the Peak District National Park for Naval Engineering Apprentices from Babcock Engineering.
Following two years assisting in the training young engineers from Babcocks, Peak Activities received some very kind endorsements from apprentice trainers and training managers at Babcock Engineering employed to develop the confidence and skills of their Modern Engineering Apprentices who train as aspirant electrical engineers and mechanical engineers in Naval Dockyards. " Dear Iain, Thanks for all your team has done for all our dockyard apprentices. We want you to have a big thank you and wish to put you forward as our preferrred supplier of apprentice training. Even though it's a long flight down to England from here in Scotland the distance we have to travel to the get such a high standard of bespoke apprentice training from you is not a significant factor. I look forward to working with you the same time next near." J. Mitchell - Training Manager, Babcock Engineering. ( 2006) " Dear Iain & Caroline and staff, Of behalf of Gordon and myself and all of our apprentices I would like to thank yourself, Caroline and all your staff for the 7 days we spent with Peak Activities Ltd. It was an action packed week for all of us and it was great to see all our boys getting up and getting on with it. Your staff we met from Wing Commander Pete, Simon, Pete and Doc Andy are all a great credit to your company and worked great with the boys. It was a pleasure to meet yourself and your family who made us all feel so welcome. So once again on behalf of Gordon and every one of the Babcock Naval Apprentices Class of 2005 THANK YOU ! Yours sincerely, Francis Mulvenna & Gordon Gray. ...................................... Babcock Apprentice Training P.S. Could you also pass on our sincere thanks to all the catering staff and the caretaker at the conference accommodation you arranged for us ? They looked after us VERY WELL ! Courses have been designed to help experienced dockyard workers share their skills and knowledge and wisdom with young apprentices in a fun learning environment. At the same time the courses were designed to help ready the apprentices for work high in the sky on tall ship lifts and cranes - and in very tight confined working spaces such as cable conduits and bilges. Working at heights abseiling and rock climbing and on high ropes challenges was woven into a series of task based problem solving exercises alongside other problems based in confined places such as cave and disused mines and other training environments...allowing the apprentices to build their self- esteem and confidence before entering their naval shipyards. COMMENTS FROM CLIENTS USING OUR SERVICES TO ASSIST THEIR APPRENTICES' TRAINING & FOR CADET TRAINING.... Dear Iain, May I thank you on behalf of Robert Bosch for the very professional service you provided designing and facilitating the 15 days outdoor development training programme for our 14 visiting Bosch Apprentices. At the joint seminar between Robert Bosch GmbH and Lucas Industries' senior directors at the University of Birmingham, held to review the exchange of apprentices, the following comments were made : - "We did many things for the first time." "Iain's team were always very helpful and very safe." "Every single day was different and very well organised." "We hope next year's exchange students are given the same opportunities to go to Iain's centre." "Iain himself was always friendly and approachable but he tells some terrible old music hall jokes in German ! " The senior directors from both companies attending there were all delighted with the outcome of the 1987 exchange to which you and your staff made a very significant and much appreciated major contribution. Yours sincerely, Derek Jones FITD * - Group Training Manager. * Website Editor's note : Without doubt the late Derek Jones was one of the most powerful positive influences over Iain Jennings and our styles of training in our earlier days when we really only had a handful of corporate clients. As a leading client he was always willing to share his expertise and insights and was generous in going out of his way to set up meetings for us with the most senior Foundation Directors of organisations such as Robert Bosch GmbH in Stuttgart and Schillerhohe ...as well as recommending us to many Lucas training staff - for whom we ended up working in cities as far apart as Leeds, Wolverhampton, Hemel London and Stuttgart. Groups even travelled over here from Boston in the USA on Derek's personal recommendations that it was worth coming here for some "Hearts and Minds" training. Derek's very highest standards of professionalism - coupled with his great dry sense of humour, approachability and endless generosity rubbed off onto everybody at Rock Lea who knew him. He was considered by many as a man of great integrity and his introductions to fellow training professionals such as Alan Gruar MBE and his reviews ofd our work led, eventually, to us working regulalry right up to Board Level in parts of Lucas such as Lucas Actuation. When he retired from Lucas his wife, Jean, mentioned he'd expressed an interest in working with us as a training consultant and we jumped at the chance of getting Derek to join our team & share his vast knowledge of training. He worked here as a popular part time guest lecturer, speaker and training coach alongside Iain and Peter et alia until he sadly passed away very suddenly. He was a great friend and supporter of our work here who over the years became a great friend who is still very sadly missed by a lot of people. Iain, Caroline, Peter and Tony owe Derek a great debt of gratitude which we can never repay. ........ GEC Large Machines, Rugby Dear Iain, I am writing to you on behalf of all the GEC Electrical Projects and Industrial Control technician apprentices who attended your excellent management skills course from 27th Feb to March 3rd. The week was exciting and great fun throughout and we learned so much about teamwork, leadership skills and how to keep up morale - especially during the final exercises working underground when we didn't get so much sleep and we needed to keep on going to finish the task and succeed. I now feel I have learned so much about how recognizing people's strengths and weaknesses and working with people instead of against them can enable us to achieve such great things if we set our minds to to doing so. We have also learned so much about the need to be organized when trying to get things done. We were well organized for the final presentations to management when we got back to work and the presentations went very well indeed. Please will you thank all your staff and your wife for making us all feel so welcome and for looking after us so well in Hathersage ? Thanks again to you for helping us all to understand how to work efficiently with other people and helping us to boost our confidence and seeing how we can work well together. Yours sincerely, Richard Pinks - Technician Apprentice GEC Large Machines - Rugby.
Following two years assisting in the training young engineers from Babcocks, Peak Activities received some very kind endorsements from apprentice trainers and training managers at Babcock Engineering employed to develop the confidence and skills of their Modern Engineering Apprentices who train as aspirant electrical engineers and mechanical engineers in Naval Dockyards. " Dear Iain, Thanks for all your team has done for all our dockyard apprentices. We want you to have a big thank you and wish to put you forward as our preferrred supplier of apprentice training. Even though it's a long flight down to England from here in Scotland the distance we have to travel to the get such a high standard of bespoke apprentice training from you is not a significant factor. I look forward to working with you the same time next near." J. Mitchell - Training Manager, Babcock Engineering. ( 2006) " Dear Iain & Caroline and staff, Of behalf of Gordon and myself and all of our apprentices I would like to thank yourself, Caroline and all your staff for the 7 days we spent with Peak Activities Ltd. It was an action packed week for all of us and it was great to see all our boys getting up and getting on with it. Your staff we met from Wing Commander Pete, Simon, Pete and Doc Andy are all a great credit to your company and worked great with the boys. It was a pleasure to meet yourself and your family who made us all feel so welcome. So once again on behalf of Gordon and every one of the Babcock Naval Apprentices Class of 2005 THANK YOU ! Yours sincerely, Francis Mulvenna & Gordon Gray. ...................................... Babcock Apprentice Training P.S. Could you also pass on our sincere thanks to all the catering staff and the caretaker at the conference accommodation you arranged for us ? They looked after us VERY WELL ! Courses have been designed to help experienced dockyard workers share their skills and knowledge and wisdom with young apprentices in a fun learning environment. At the same time the courses were designed to help ready the apprentices for work high in the sky on tall ship lifts and cranes - and in very tight confined working spaces such as cable conduits and bilges. Working at heights abseiling and rock climbing and on high ropes challenges was woven into a series of task based problem solving exercises alongside other problems based in confined places such as cave and disused mines and other training environments...allowing the apprentices to build their self- esteem and confidence before entering their naval shipyards. COMMENTS FROM CLIENTS USING OUR SERVICES TO ASSIST THEIR APPRENTICES' TRAINING & FOR CADET TRAINING....
Following two years assisting in the training young engineers from Babcocks, Peak Activities received some very kind endorsements from apprentice trainers and training managers at Babcock Engineering employed to develop the confidence and skills of their Modern Engineering Apprentices who train as aspirant electrical engineers and mechanical engineers in Naval Dockyards.
" Dear Iain, Thanks for all your team has done for all our dockyard apprentices. We want you to have a big thank you and wish to put you forward as our preferrred supplier of apprentice training. Even though it's a long flight down to England from here in Scotland the distance we have to travel to the get such a high standard of bespoke apprentice training from you is not a significant factor. I look forward to working with you the same time next near." J. Mitchell - Training Manager, Babcock Engineering. ( 2006) " Dear Iain & Caroline and staff, Of behalf of Gordon and myself and all of our apprentices I would like to thank yourself, Caroline and all your staff for the 7 days we spent with Peak Activities Ltd. It was an action packed week for all of us and it was great to see all our boys getting up and getting on with it. Your staff we met from Wing Commander Pete, Simon, Pete and Doc Andy are all a great credit to your company and worked great with the boys. It was a pleasure to meet yourself and your family who made us all feel so welcome. So once again on behalf of Gordon and every one of the Babcock Naval Apprentices Class of 2005 THANK YOU ! Yours sincerely, Francis Mulvenna & Gordon Gray. ...................................... Babcock Apprentice Training P.S. Could you also pass on our sincere thanks to all the catering staff and the caretaker at the conference accommodation you arranged for us ? They looked after us VERY WELL !
" Dear Iain,
Thanks for all your team has done for all our dockyard apprentices. We want you to have a big thank you and wish to put you forward as our preferrred supplier of apprentice training. Even though it's a long flight down to England from here in Scotland the distance we have to travel to the get such a high standard of bespoke apprentice training from you is not a significant factor. I look forward to working with you the same time next near."
J. Mitchell - Training Manager, Babcock Engineering. ( 2006)
" Dear Iain & Caroline and staff,
Of behalf of Gordon and myself and all of our apprentices I would like to thank yourself, Caroline and all your staff for the 7 days we spent with Peak Activities Ltd. It was an action packed week for all of us and it was great to see all our boys getting up and getting on with it. Your staff we met from Wing Commander Pete, Simon, Pete and Doc Andy are all a great credit to your company and worked great with the boys.
It was a pleasure to meet yourself and your family who made us all feel so welcome. So once again on behalf of Gordon and every one of the Babcock Naval Apprentices Class of 2005 THANK YOU !
Yours sincerely, Francis Mulvenna & Gordon Gray. ...................................... Babcock Apprentice Training
P.S. Could you also pass on our sincere thanks to all the catering staff and the caretaker at the conference accommodation you arranged for us ? They looked after us VERY WELL !
Courses have been designed to help experienced dockyard workers share their skills and knowledge and wisdom with young apprentices in a fun learning environment. At the same time the courses were designed to help ready the apprentices for work high in the sky on tall ship lifts and cranes - and in very tight confined working spaces such as cable conduits and bilges. Working at heights abseiling and rock climbing and on high ropes challenges was woven into a series of task based problem solving exercises alongside other problems based in confined places such as cave and disused mines and other training environments...allowing the apprentices to build their self- esteem and confidence before entering their naval shipyards.
COMMENTS FROM CLIENTS USING OUR SERVICES TO ASSIST THEIR APPRENTICES' TRAINING & FOR CADET TRAINING....
Dear Iain, May I thank you on behalf of Robert Bosch for the very professional service you provided designing and facilitating the 15 days outdoor development training programme for our 14 visiting Bosch Apprentices. At the joint seminar between Robert Bosch GmbH and Lucas Industries' senior directors at the University of Birmingham, held to review the exchange of apprentices, the following comments were made : - "We did many things for the first time." "Iain's team were always very helpful and very safe." "Every single day was different and very well organised." "We hope next year's exchange students are given the same opportunities to go to Iain's centre." "Iain himself was always friendly and approachable but he tells some terrible old music hall jokes in German ! " The senior directors from both companies attending there were all delighted with the outcome of the 1987 exchange to which you and your staff made a very significant and much appreciated major contribution. Yours sincerely, Derek Jones FITD * - Group Training Manager. * Website Editor's note : Without doubt the late Derek Jones was one of the most powerful positive influences over Iain Jennings and our styles of training in our earlier days when we really only had a handful of corporate clients. As a leading client he was always willing to share his expertise and insights and was generous in going out of his way to set up meetings for us with the most senior Foundation Directors of organisations such as Robert Bosch GmbH in Stuttgart and Schillerhohe ...as well as recommending us to many Lucas training staff - for whom we ended up working in cities as far apart as Leeds, Wolverhampton, Hemel London and Stuttgart. Groups even travelled over here from Boston in the USA on Derek's personal recommendations that it was worth coming here for some "Hearts and Minds" training. Derek's very highest standards of professionalism - coupled with his great dry sense of humour, approachability and endless generosity rubbed off onto everybody at Rock Lea who knew him. He was considered by many as a man of great integrity and his introductions to fellow training professionals such as Alan Gruar MBE and his reviews ofd our work led, eventually, to us working regulalry right up to Board Level in parts of Lucas such as Lucas Actuation. When he retired from Lucas his wife, Jean, mentioned he'd expressed an interest in working with us as a training consultant and we jumped at the chance of getting Derek to join our team & share his vast knowledge of training. He worked here as a popular part time guest lecturer, speaker and training coach alongside Iain and Peter et alia until he sadly passed away very suddenly. He was a great friend and supporter of our work here who over the years became a great friend who is still very sadly missed by a lot of people. Iain, Caroline, Peter and Tony owe Derek a great debt of gratitude which we can never repay. ........ GEC Large Machines, Rugby Dear Iain, I am writing to you on behalf of all the GEC Electrical Projects and Industrial Control technician apprentices who attended your excellent management skills course from 27th Feb to March 3rd. The week was exciting and great fun throughout and we learned so much about teamwork, leadership skills and how to keep up morale - especially during the final exercises working underground when we didn't get so much sleep and we needed to keep on going to finish the task and succeed. I now feel I have learned so much about how recognizing people's strengths and weaknesses and working with people instead of against them can enable us to achieve such great things if we set our minds to to doing so. We have also learned so much about the need to be organized when trying to get things done. We were well organized for the final presentations to management when we got back to work and the presentations went very well indeed. Please will you thank all your staff and your wife for making us all feel so welcome and for looking after us so well in Hathersage ? Thanks again to you for helping us all to understand how to work efficiently with other people and helping us to boost our confidence and seeing how we can work well together. Yours sincerely, Richard Pinks - Technician Apprentice GEC Large Machines - Rugby.
Dear Iain, May I thank you on behalf of Robert Bosch for the very professional service you provided designing and facilitating the 15 days outdoor development training programme for our 14 visiting Bosch Apprentices. At the joint seminar between Robert Bosch GmbH and Lucas Industries' senior directors at the University of Birmingham, held to review the exchange of apprentices, the following comments were made : -
"We did many things for the first time." "Iain's team were always very helpful and very safe." "Every single day was different and very well organised." "We hope next year's exchange students are given the same opportunities to go to Iain's centre." "Iain himself was always friendly and approachable but he tells some terrible old music hall jokes in German ! "
The senior directors from both companies attending there were all delighted with the outcome of the 1987 exchange to which you and your staff made a very significant and much appreciated major contribution.
Yours sincerely, Derek Jones FITD * - Group Training Manager.
Yours sincerely,
Derek Jones FITD * - Group Training Manager.
* Website Editor's note : Without doubt the late Derek Jones was one of the most powerful positive influences over Iain Jennings and our styles of training in our earlier days when we really only had a handful of corporate clients. As a leading client he was always willing to share his expertise and insights and was generous in going out of his way to set up meetings for us with the most senior Foundation Directors of organisations such as Robert Bosch GmbH in Stuttgart and Schillerhohe ...as well as recommending us to many Lucas training staff - for whom we ended up working in cities as far apart as Leeds, Wolverhampton, Hemel London and Stuttgart. Groups even travelled over here from Boston in the USA on Derek's personal recommendations that it was worth coming here for some "Hearts and Minds" training. Derek's very highest standards of professionalism - coupled with his great dry sense of humour, approachability and endless generosity rubbed off onto everybody at Rock Lea who knew him. He was considered by many as a man of great integrity and his introductions to fellow training professionals such as Alan Gruar MBE and his reviews ofd our work led, eventually, to us working regulalry right up to Board Level in parts of Lucas such as Lucas Actuation. When he retired from Lucas his wife, Jean, mentioned he'd expressed an interest in working with us as a training consultant and we jumped at the chance of getting Derek to join our team & share his vast knowledge of training. He worked here as a popular part time guest lecturer, speaker and training coach alongside Iain and Peter et alia until he sadly passed away very suddenly. He was a great friend and supporter of our work here who over the years became a great friend who is still very sadly missed by a lot of people. Iain, Caroline, Peter and Tony owe Derek a great debt of gratitude which we can never repay.
........ GEC Large Machines, Rugby Dear Iain, I am writing to you on behalf of all the GEC Electrical Projects and Industrial Control technician apprentices who attended your excellent management skills course from 27th Feb to March 3rd. The week was exciting and great fun throughout and we learned so much about teamwork, leadership skills and how to keep up morale - especially during the final exercises working underground when we didn't get so much sleep and we needed to keep on going to finish the task and succeed. I now feel I have learned so much about how recognizing people's strengths and weaknesses and working with people instead of against them can enable us to achieve such great things if we set our minds to to doing so. We have also learned so much about the need to be organized when trying to get things done. We were well organized for the final presentations to management when we got back to work and the presentations went very well indeed. Please will you thank all your staff and your wife for making us all feel so welcome and for looking after us so well in Hathersage ? Thanks again to you for helping us all to understand how to work efficiently with other people and helping us to boost our confidence and seeing how we can work well together. Yours sincerely, Richard Pinks - Technician Apprentice GEC Large Machines - Rugby.
Lucas Apprentices Training Experts use Rock Lea for training and development.
Apprentices from Lucas Aerospace Wolverhampton. Lucas Group Industries plc. Birmingham. Dear Iain, I am most pleased to be repeating once again the booking for this year's two weeks of development training activities for the Bosch-Lucas exchange scheme's Technical Apprentices. This year's programme which you designed and ran for us in Hathersage was again an outstanding success in every way. expressed in glowing terms by the apprentices' during the final seminar presentation to the senior directors from Bosch in Germany and from our senior directors from Lucas here in Birmingham. Thank you once again. Derek Jones - Group Training Manager, Birmingham.
Apprentices from Lucas Aerospace Wolverhampton.
Lucas Group Industries plc. Birmingham.
Dear Iain,
I am most pleased to be repeating once again the booking for this year's two weeks of development training activities for the Bosch-Lucas exchange scheme's Technical Apprentices. This year's programme which you designed and ran for us in Hathersage was again an outstanding success in every way. expressed in glowing terms by the apprentices' during the final seminar presentation to the senior directors from Bosch in Germany and from our senior directors from Lucas here in Birmingham. Thank you once again.
Derek Jones - Group Training Manager, Birmingham.
Bosch Apprentices visit Rock Lea for 15 day duration training courses. Technical Apprentices from Robert Bosch GmbH on a course based at Rock Lea Centre. Lucas Actuation Division Wolverhampton Dear Iain, I have just returned form speaking to my lads who I sent up to you for their personal development training course. Words like "Brilliant, "Exciting" and "Fantastic" kept getting in the way throughout what I'd planned to be a calm and objective assessment of the cost effectiveness of the event ! They are buzzing ! However, I did gather between their bouts of euphoria and discussions of their new good intentions that you and your team have once again planned and delivered for me another powerful tailored package to stretch both mind and body with a very high level of enjoyment and a degree of inspiration. Many thanks ! From both the technical apprentices and my supervisors and myself please would you send our thanks to your staff for their tremendous efforts and inputs..and thanks to you for your hospitality and for pitching the course at just the right level for my lads. I understand you're planning a sophisticated management skills development programme soon for our senior managers and board and I am sure they too are going to come back suitably recharged and ready to go ! Thank you once again. KB - Apprentices Training Manager, Stafford Road Site, Fordhouses, Wolverhampton.
Bosch Apprentices visit Rock Lea for 15 day duration training courses. Technical Apprentices from Robert Bosch GmbH on a course based at Rock Lea Centre.
Bosch Apprentices visit Rock Lea for 15 day duration training courses.
Technical Apprentices from Robert Bosch GmbH on a course based at Rock Lea Centre.
Lucas Actuation Division Wolverhampton
I have just returned form speaking to my lads who I sent up to you for their personal development training course. Words like "Brilliant, "Exciting" and "Fantastic" kept getting in the way throughout what I'd planned to be a calm and objective assessment of the cost effectiveness of the event ! They are buzzing ! However, I did gather between their bouts of euphoria and discussions of their new good intentions that you and your team have once again planned and delivered for me another powerful tailored package to stretch both mind and body with a very high level of enjoyment and a degree of inspiration. Many thanks ! From both the technical apprentices and my supervisors and myself please would you send our thanks to your staff for their tremendous efforts and inputs..and thanks to you for your hospitality and for pitching the course at just the right level for my lads. I understand you're planning a sophisticated management skills development programme soon for our senior managers and board and I am sure they too are going to come back suitably recharged and ready to go ! Thank you once again.
KB - Apprentices Training Manager, Stafford Road Site, Fordhouses, Wolverhampton.
KB - Apprentices Training Manager,
Stafford Road Site, Fordhouses, Wolverhampton.
Working with young people and Hampshire Fire & Rescue.
Sailing a Wayfarer at our Watersports Centre.
Mountain Rescue Training Exercise
Young people's training for USAF Lakenheath's TF Squadron
Why are Rock Lea's courses offering better value for money ? Our staff are all senior people who appreciate the need for the qualities you are trying to develop within your trainess...training and development specialists qualified by the CIPD as well as being qualified teachers and lecturers as well - not just glorified climbing instructors with little or no experience of the working environment in which your apprentices will be operating. As well as holding CIPD qualifications most of our staff also hold National Governing Body Coaching qualifications for a wide range of sports. Many of our staff have held or still hold senior posts in commerce and industry or as training experts in the armed services. .......................... Members of the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development & Institute of Outdoor Learning. Peak Activities Ltd's planners take great care to make sure we are totally clear about what is wanted by the client and other key stakeholders before submitting detailed proposals to our clients. In this way you get what you need - and no nasty surprises. Naval Dockyard Engineering Apprentices presenting their summary of findings and good intentions following a training course examing the differences between "management" and "leadership" and inculcating the skills and qualities of good leadership & good management in their specific workplace. We believe that apprentices deserve the best that their employers can provide and will appreciate it when we look after them as best we can. We therefore offer a good range of facilities for cadets and apprentices - from excellent group accommodation to air conditioned vehicles and the very best equipment we can provide for them. We have generous levels of staffing - with good staff : pupil ratios to ensure people are well looked after. Click for more information our pedagogy. Peak Activities take great care to put together unique, imaginative programmes using well researched, tried and trusted training techniques that will capture their imagination and motivate the apprentices to dig deep and make the most of their time with us...to maximise the return on your investment of time and money with us. Wing Commander Pete Daughtrey - one of our highly qualified trainers. Peter has extensive experience of managing teams in the health, education and commercial sectors.
Why are Rock Lea's courses offering better value for money ?
Our staff are all senior people who appreciate the need for the qualities you are trying to develop within your trainess...training and development specialists qualified by the CIPD as well as being qualified teachers and lecturers as well - not just glorified climbing instructors with little or no experience of the working environment in which your apprentices will be operating.
As well as holding CIPD qualifications most of our staff also hold National Governing Body Coaching qualifications for a wide range of sports. Many of our staff have held or still hold senior posts in commerce and industry or as training experts in the armed services.
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Members of the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development & Institute of Outdoor Learning.
Peak Activities Ltd's planners take great care to make sure we are totally clear about what is wanted by the client and other key stakeholders before submitting detailed proposals to our clients. In this way you get what you need - and no nasty surprises.
Naval Dockyard Engineering Apprentices presenting their summary of findings and good intentions following a training course examing the differences between "management" and "leadership" and inculcating the skills and qualities of good leadership & good management in their specific workplace.
We believe that apprentices deserve the best that their employers can provide and will appreciate it when we look after them as best we can. We therefore offer a good range of facilities for cadets and apprentices - from excellent group accommodation to air conditioned vehicles and the very best equipment we can provide for them. We have generous levels of staffing - with good staff : pupil ratios to ensure people are well looked after. Click for more information our pedagogy. Peak Activities take great care to put together unique, imaginative programmes using well researched, tried and trusted training techniques that will capture their imagination and motivate the apprentices to dig deep and make the most of their time with us...to maximise the return on your investment of time and money with us. Wing Commander Pete Daughtrey - one of our highly qualified trainers. Peter has extensive experience of managing teams in the health, education and commercial sectors.
Syndicate room in one of our preferred accommodation's training annexes.
We offer a comprehensive package of assistance in the planning and running of your apprentices' training residentials. For example, if you need help arranging transport to and from the Peak District or from a local airport - just ask us and we can arrange for suitable safe transport using our own minibus fleet or coaches from our associates at Andrews.
Peak Activities offer clients a wide range of local accommodation options available which are tried and proven bases from which successful events can be run exclusively for groups of apprentices and cadets. Choose from self catering options - or private conference centres with all meals provided. Some groups over the years have opted to camp out under the stars - whilst others stay in twin or triple rooms in hotels. We'll be happy to discuss your needs and help you come up with the best accommodation for your training group.
Youth hostels are available in the area, but with perhaps one or two exceptions we feel they are not always the best place to stay if you want an intense course free of distractions caused by other groups staying in adjacent rooms.
Further reading / photography :
Police Cadets use high ropes course to develop their teamwork skills. Apprentices & cadets train using rock climbing activities... Apprentices reviewing problem solving exercises and command tasks... Apprentices use abseiling exercise as part of their team building activities... Using first aid training and mountain rescue training for developing apprentices' leadership skills... Apprentices use caving exercises to develop their team working skills...
To discuss setting up a programme for your cadets or apprentices, please contact us PEAK ACTIVITIES LTD, Call 01433-650345 Rock Lea Station Road Hathersage Hope Valley Derbyshire England S32 1DD Website : www.iain.co.uk This page is http://www.iain.co.uk/apprenti.htm