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Established in 1980, Peak Activities Ltd. offers safe, reliable professional indoor & outdoor training courses & a wide range of fun, safe, adventurous outdoor pursuits for groups and for individuals visiting our bases in the Peak District. There are lots of tiny new companies now copying our products and using trading names very similar to ours in and around Derbyshire - but we hope you'll agree that whilst we may often have been copied, our levels of safety, customer care, total quality & value for money are rarely surpassed and help us stand out from the crowd. We have always promised not to let our customers down. We're simply sold on service. The expertise of our unique team of over 20 dedicated full time & part time staff built up over 30 years & our unique products and excellent service levels are our greatest strengths. We own our highly accalaimed centre Rock Lea in a simply perfect accessible location in the middle of Hathersage - in the Hope Valley in the heart of the Peak District National Park. As well as supplying open events which individuals can book we also have an excellent track record designing & running successful team building and training events for private groups large and small. We cater for all kinds of group clients and have staff specialising in designing and running bespoke events for SME's & large blue-chip clients. We pride ourselves on consistently supplying excellent service & a broad range of safe, reliable events all year round for all our customers. All year long in the Peak District National Park we offer : - 1 ) SPORTS WEEKENDS - sports events just for fun - for individuals & for private groups. 2) CORPORATE EVENTS - for unique company sponsored entertaining & jolly incentives ! 3) DEVELOPMENT TRAINING - serious longer bespoke events boosting business performance ! 4) COMPANY TEAM BUILDING OUTDOORS & INDOORS informal & more serious programmes.
Established in 1980, Peak Activities Ltd. offers safe, reliable professional indoor & outdoor training courses & a wide range of fun, safe, adventurous outdoor pursuits for groups and for individuals visiting our bases in the Peak District. There are lots of tiny new companies now copying our products and using trading names very similar to ours in and around Derbyshire - but we hope you'll agree that whilst we may often have been copied, our levels of safety, customer care, total quality & value for money are rarely surpassed and help us stand out from the crowd. We have always promised not to let our customers down. We're simply sold on service. The expertise of our unique team of over 20 dedicated full time & part time staff built up over 30 years & our unique products and excellent service levels are our greatest strengths. We own our highly accalaimed centre Rock Lea in a simply perfect accessible location in the middle of Hathersage - in the Hope Valley in the heart of the Peak District National Park.
As well as supplying open events which individuals can book we also have an excellent track record designing & running successful team building and training events for private groups large and small. We cater for all kinds of group clients and have staff specialising in designing and running bespoke events for SME's & large blue-chip clients. We pride ourselves on consistently supplying excellent service & a broad range of safe, reliable events all year round for all our customers.
All year long in the Peak District National Park we offer : -
1 ) SPORTS WEEKENDS - sports events just for fun - for individuals & for private groups. 2) CORPORATE EVENTS - for unique company sponsored entertaining & jolly incentives ! 3) DEVELOPMENT TRAINING - serious longer bespoke events boosting business performance ! 4) COMPANY TEAM BUILDING OUTDOORS & INDOORS informal & more serious programmes.
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TOTAL QUALITY COMES AS STANDARD ! We are not the cheapest providers in the area but we like to think that over the years we have established an excellent reputation for looking after our customers - whether they're here as part a large corporate hospitality event over several days or a small private group or individuals just out for a day. Check out current deals on our great "Open" Sports Weekends for individuals. Tailoring events for private parties on the dates of your choosing... APPRENTICES TRAINING PROGRAMMES SERIOUS TEAM BUILDING & CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT COURSES IF YOU CANNOT SEE OUR WEB SITE's NAVIGATION BUTTONS CLICK HERE PLEASE TO RELOAD THIS PAGE WITH ENHANCED NAVIGATION Please click here for some glowing endorsements from lots of our delighted clients and other travel media or scroll down this page for more information. Our excellent staff, products & services have been frequently been highly acclaimed in media such as The Sunday Times Travel Magazine and the Daly Telegraph & have been featured at length in numerous ITV & BBC television & radio documentaries.
INFORMAL GROUPS CAN INCLUDE SESSIONS OF : - abseiling ( from 3 hours to all day ) treasure hunts & trailquests ( half day or full day events ) mountain biking ( half day or full days ) orienteering ( half days or short 2 hours sessions ) rock climbing ( short sessions or 1,2, or 3 days ). indoor & outdoor problem solving team building exercises in exciting locations easy caving ( half days, full days, 2 days courses) tougher potholing guided walks & scrambles easy rambles nordic walking with poles first-aid training ( beginners and advanced ) canoeing, sailing, raft making & racing hillcraft tuition high ropes challenges GPS aided navigation & route planning ..and lots more ! We are very flexible and open to suggestions... Phone us on 01433-650345 for more information. .
INDIVIDUALS CAN BOOK BEGINNERS CLIMBING & ABSEILING WEEKENDS NOVICES CAVING & POTHOLING WEEKENDS . MULTISPORTS WEEKENDS WALKING WEEKENDS . MIDWEEK SPORTS TRAINING COURSES ................................................................................................ GUIDING & 1:1 SESSIONS OF : - abseiling tuition rock climbing instruction scrambling abseiling sessions orienteering sessions mountain biking orienteering problem solving caving potholing guided walks treasure hunts nordic walking canoeing raft making & racing GPS navigation ..and lots more ! Phone us on 01433-650345 for more information.
Rock Lea is an AALA government licensed centre with an outstanding safety record going back over 25 years.
YOUTH LEADERS, SCOUT LEADERS & TEACHERS CAN BOOK A WIDE RANGE OF RESIDENTIAL & NON RESIDENTIAL : - BEGINNERS CLIMBING & ABSEILING WEEKENDS & DAYS NOVICES CAVING & POTHOLING WEEKENDS & DAYS MULTISPORTS WEEKENDS & DAYS MOUNTAIN WALKING WEEKENDS & DAYS MIDWEEK MULTI ACTIVITY TRAINING COURSES SINGLE HALF DAY or ALL DAY SESSIONS OF : - abseiling tuition rock climbing instruction scrambling abseiling sessions orienteering sessions mountain biking orienteering problem solving caving sessions potholing sessions guided walks treasure hunts nordic walking canoeing GPS navigation ..and lots more with our NGB qualified instructors ! Phone us on 01433-650345 for more information.
PROFESSIONAL CONSULTANCY Preparation of Safety Statements and Risk Assessments for other centres & Schools & Colleges. Safety Systems and Course Design and Implementation. Video Film Production& Editing Services Safety Cover & Planning for Special Events. Assessment Panels for staffing centres. Production and Safety Management for visiting filming crews and tv companies. Expert Witness Facility for Legal Firms. Lecturing & Guest Speaker Services Help with NGB Qualification of staff as leaders in the fields of caving, climbing, abseiling, etc. Phone 01433-650345 for more information.
SPECIALIST TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT COURSES FOR COMPANIES INCLUDE : - * Personal Development Experiential Learning Courses using tried and proven indoor and outdoor training methods. * Sophisticated tailored TEAM BUILDING & PROBLEM SOLVING courses. * Leadership & Management Skills Development Programmes. * Confidence Building & Supervisory Skills Development Training. * Team Performance & Continuous Improvement Initiatives. * Bespoke Team Building Courses. * Tailored Change Management Training Courses. * TQM and EFQM projects. * Training the Trainers Coaching and Developnment Courses * Psychometric Assessments & Provision of Self Assesment Questionnaires * Design and provision of high quality training materials. * Assessment Panels & Writing of Reports Please phone us on 01433-650345 for more information.
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Because we'd rather sit under trees and admire them than chop them down and turn them into brochures this is a big web site intended to serve as a fairly comprehensive introduction to what we can do for customers who can afford our services. We hope you enjoy browsing this website. Please use our alphabetical index to find what you're looking for. This site now also serves as a knowledge base for people researching best practise and due diligence in the field of outdoor sports and training provision. If you like what we have to offer and if you are a budget holder - please give us a call on 01433-650345. ...... WEB SITE INDEX & MAP OF THE LINKS AROUND THIS SITE
All Peak Activities Ltd's many different activities carry full insurance. We run our events very safely but nonetheless we carry the very best insurance that money can buy. All of our our programmes are well managed and supervised by first-class, well trained and highly qualified and mature non-machismo staff.
Please click on the underlined links to see details of some of our many well- known corporate clients & some of the many endorsements we have on file from senior execs from corporate clients such as Orange, Mitchells & Butler, Rolls Royce, British Gas, Transco, Powergen, TXU, Lever Faberge, Legal & General Insurance, Norwich Union, NHS Trusts, several major government departments and many other organisations. ...
Getting to our base Rock Lea in Hathersage by road, rail or by air is quick & easy ! Click here for travel information, location maps, street plans, train times, etc.
"Off-the-shelf" OUTDOOR SPORTS SESSIONS for parties of friends - such as rock-climbing, caving, abseiling cycling, potholing, treasure hunts Nordic walking, scrambling, & many more adventurous open country pursuits... Adventure Activities suitable as TEAM BUILDING EVENTS for groups from industry & commerce. Light-hearted, Jolly Team Building Events Outdoors - including orienteering, treasure hunts, trailquests, watersports.... Tailored Jolly Team Training Courses & more serious Team Development Programmes. Inter-team challenges and problem solving Outdoor-based Corporate Hospitality Events, Group Activities & Incentives. Made-to-measure bespoke Management & Leadership Training Workshops with our Chartered CIPD-registered training and development training consultants. Sophisticated Training Consultancy & Facilitation Services.
Peak Activities Ltd's team has been established for over 25 years and we pride ourselves on planning and running safe events that don't let our customers down - well except on the end of a rope !
Peak Activities is structured & organised into 4 operational departments : - 1 ) SPORTS - just for fun ! 2) CORPORATE EVENTS - for fun, entertaining and incentives ! 3) CHARTERED TRAINING & TEAM BUILDING - to boost business performance ! 4) YOUNG PEOPLE - safe events, licensed & designed for under 18's... a) SPORTS ACTIVITIES DIVISION Director : Tony Kendall MIST MISM FRGS, We offer Outdoor Pursuits & Sports Events designed especially for individuals : Click for dates & prices of our adventurous outdoor activities events in Derbyshire Sports Events off the shelf or tailored for Group Organisers : pick your own date/s for private functions Sports Events designed especially for individuals : Click here to see some of the events we offer individuals coming on our Open Courses. Open Courses are open to members of the public coming on their own or with friends and they include Beginners Rock Climbing & Abseiling Weekends, Novice's Multiactivity weekends, Weekends learning to cave and pothole, Weekends learning how to lead rock climbs ....and much more ! These events usually involve two days of tuition and do not include accommodation in the price, so guests are free to stay under canvas camping or sleep in lavish hotel luxury - or maybe a B&B or a local youth hostel. As highly acclaimed on BBC and ITV television and in media such as the Sunday Times Travel Guide and the Sunday Telegraph Travel Section.
Peak Activities is structured & organised into 4 operational departments : - 1 ) SPORTS - just for fun ! 2) CORPORATE EVENTS - for fun, entertaining and incentives ! 3) CHARTERED TRAINING & TEAM BUILDING - to boost business performance ! 4) YOUNG PEOPLE - safe events, licensed & designed for under 18's...
a) SPORTS ACTIVITIES DIVISION Director : Tony Kendall MIST MISM FRGS,
We offer Outdoor Pursuits & Sports Events designed especially for individuals : Click for dates & prices of our adventurous outdoor activities events in Derbyshire Sports Events off the shelf or tailored for Group Organisers : pick your own date/s for private functions Sports Events designed especially for individuals : Click here to see some of the events we offer individuals coming on our Open Courses. Open Courses are open to members of the public coming on their own or with friends and they include Beginners Rock Climbing & Abseiling Weekends, Novice's Multiactivity weekends, Weekends learning to cave and pothole, Weekends learning how to lead rock climbs ....and much more ! These events usually involve two days of tuition and do not include accommodation in the price, so guests are free to stay under canvas camping or sleep in lavish hotel luxury - or maybe a B&B or a local youth hostel. As highly acclaimed on BBC and ITV television and in media such as the Sunday Times Travel Guide and the Sunday Telegraph Travel Section.
We also offer individuals and very small groups tuition under our popular Guiding Service. This allows people to book one-to-one or very small group private coaching lessons. You can hire a senior tutor to take you out climbing, caving, abseiling, or to show you how to use a map and compass or GPS whilst walking on the local mountains and hills. Private Lessons & GUIDING Services
A day of personal instruction caving or abseiling or climbing with one of our senior staff makes a really fabulous and unique Christmas or birthday present for an individual who wants 1:1 tuition - or a small exclusive party of, say, two or three people.! Just for the fun of it - whatever the weather ! Sports Events for Private Group Leaders : We have loads of different outdoor pursuits on offer in the Peak Park from abseiling to gorge walking and from caving to orienteering. Our instructors are in demand from organisers of informal exclusive days out and weekends for stag parties, hen groups, private company events sports clubs trips, and outings for families & groups of friends. Check out our new Stag Group Page on one of our other websites If you can tell us how much you want to spend and what dates you want and we can let you know what choice of activities you can choose from for mid week or weekend dates. Alternatively, if you tell us exactly what you want to include over, say, one or two days of sports activities & we can give you a written E-MAIL quotation for exactly what's specified. Click for endorsemenst & opinions from numerous group customers who have used this service. A large number of corporate customers have used us to supply them with totally safe, reliable sports weekends away. Click here for samples of their feedback comments. Phone us on 01433-650345 for some sample quotes for action-filled two days courses for private parties of 6 to 60 people. The Sports Division of Peak Activities Ltd runs fun, safe, high-quality off-the-shelf "fixed price" non-residential sports sessions which are normally booked by fax or phone for groups of 6 to 30+ people who make their own group accommodation arrangements independently or with help from the friendly and helpful people in our office. We can also tailor sports events over one, two, three or more days for private groups wishing to organise tailored programmes involving activities such as abseiling, orienteering, climbing, abseiling, caving, potholing, mountain biking...and many other OUTDOOR activities. We have over 40 different activity sessions on offer in the UK and a growing number on offer at our new base in the Alps.. Typically clients include groups of friends, informal groups from work, stag groups, etc. The sports staff are also involved with organising tailored events for schools, colleges and university parties both during the midweek and at weekends. b) CORPORATE EVENTS Director responsible : Caroline Jennings BSc PGCE Peak Activities Ltd's Corporate Division runs both light-hearted off-the-shelf and tailored "jolly" social and team build events for exclusive groups from organisations such as banks, utilities, factories, accountancy firms, consultancies, charities and so on. Our corporate customers generally wish to book events in the form of complete packages including accommodation, meals in private function rooms, coach or minibus transportation, liability insurance, team prizes, etc. However, we are always happy to quote for just simple sessions of activities - such as an afternoon's treasure hunt, an evening's caving trip or a morning treasure hunt on bikes. Some of our regular corporate clients are listed on a separate page. This web site contains several pages of customers' thank you comments and open letters of endorsments. Our Corporate Department is very experienced in running top quality events for mixed age, mixed fitness parties, and groups with people who have limited mobility and other disabilities or special needs. We do ask all group organisers, however, to discuss fully with us any special needs well in advance of running each event. Click here to see some of our clients & their comments.... Popular events include Treasure Hunts and Group Challenge Competitions and incentives and rewards for staff groups who are celebrating achievements. We are also often asked to tailor events when clients wish to entertain guests and VIP's and are keen for everything to go right first time without any glitches. Well known clients whoi have been delighted using us for their inter-team events for their VIPS include AVIVA, Bosch, Union Railways / Channel Tunnel Rail Link, Lloyds Bank, Lufthansa, Boots the Chemists, Lucas, Egg, CapitalOne Bank and Unilever. ( clients ) In additional to our normal range of sports events, other group activities can be incorporated into corporate clients' programmes to suit mixed ability, mixed fitness groups. Many projects can be booked over the phone, but for those wanting something really special we also offer a face to face planning service allowing customers to tailor events. However, clients need a budget and must be prepared to pay for the extra fees involved in our sitting down and spending time with them and going over their specific requirements beforehand. Planning things out in fine detail is something we're very good at...and it is crucial very often in the successful implementation of our customers' wishes. Delighted feedback from customers over 25 years has proved to us the importance of good planning and preparation. Peak Activities corporate clients tend to stay in a wide range of different types of accommodation to suit the needs, moods and interests of the custom er's participants. We have some very nice conferences centres and four and five star hotels for our discerning groups. These offer excellent en suite bedrooms, swimming pools, bars and facilities such as steam rooms and gyms. We have preferential discounted rates in place for people who are booking their evewnts with our team of trainers and outdoor instructors. These rates are very low and may surprise you..for example you can stay in the hotel with the pool shown above for as little as juyst £45 per person per night which is almost as inexpensive as staying in a local youth hostel AND we can provide the transfers to ghet you out to our base each morning by minibus if needed. We offer an accommodation booking service for our training and coporate entertainment customers which works well. Some corporate clients ask us to arrange different accommodation. The choice is all yours - whether you want to enjoy hotel luxury or camp out under the stars in tents or in a camping barn or stay in a local inn or youth hostel. We even have a "hire fleet" of new tents and sleeping bags and bag liners for groups who want to camp but who may not have the right equipment. c) CONSULTANCY & TRAINING DIVISION Senior Consultants include : Dr. Iain Jennings BSc PGCE PhD FRGS, Chartered FCIPD Wing Commander Pete Daughtrey Chartered MCIPD MRAeS RAF (retired) Dr. Andy McLean BSc PGCE MSc PhD, Dip.Outdoor Ed. Peak Activities Ltd has over 25 years of experience in providing powerful opportunities for training professionals who are serious about using our unique blends of indoor and outdoor training & development programmes to help increase the performance and effectiveness or attitudes or behaviour of their teams and individuals. Over 25 years our training experts have carefully researched, designed and run bespoke, tailor made programmes for an impressive portfolio of clients including : - * Personal Development Experiential Learning Courses * Leadership & Management Skills Development Programmes * Confidence Building & Skills Development Training * Team Performance & Continuous Improvement Initiatives * Bespoke Team Building Courses * Change Management Programmes ...... Over the years, the open feedback from the senior stakeholders who've booked this kind of serious training has been very positive. OMD with Peak Activities is a very cost-effective tool for change management and for boosting good communications. It will hopefully encourage you to speak with us if you wish us to help you make a difference in your own organsation. Some of our senior "hands on" staff are expert, highly qualified CIPD Chartered training & development consultants who have many years experience of designing, running & benchmarking & evaluating sophisticated high value, tailored events for our corporate clients. These bespoke events are often designed to help to change the attitudes and/or behaviour patterns or skills of their colleagues and themselves to boost the effectiveness and performance of individuals and teams. Whether you require a simple team building event or a more sophisticated team development programme - please talk to us about your requirements. See our other website http://www.iainjennings.co.uk for further information. Call 01433-650345 to speak with one of our trainers. Clients using us successfully for their diverse training and development projects over the past 25 years have included numerous NHS organisations including Acute Trusts and the NHS Supplies Authority, Lucas Aerospace, BP, Kellogg's, Rolls Royce, Boots, TXU, Eastern Electricity, the Commonwealth Development Corporation, HM Department for Education & Skills, e.on ( formerly Powergen), Transco, Land Rover, Robert Bosch GmbH, the Royal AIr Force, Astra Zeneca, CDC, Birmingham Cable, Legal & General Insurance, Lever Faberge, Mitchells & Butlers, Orange, Conoco Philips, Hyperion, Avon Cosmetics, Ordnance Survey, The Dept for Employment & Pensions, PriceWaterhouseCoopers Norwich Union Healthcare and many other household names. This work of this Division has been officially audited & approved many times by the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development and has also been featured on national television on national radio and in numerous articles in the international training press and in numerous articles published by our delighted customers. Click here to check out some of the comments from delighted customers from these and other corporate client organisations. Our bespoke training courses over three or four days have been found to be extremely effective in producing the results which discerning clients are seeking. However in a world where an hour or two of paintballing is sometime claimed to be "serious" team building, and where many non qualified trainers and consultants are offering "team building " events that include fire walking and other somewhat questionable jolly activities - you'll find that Peak Activities Ltd's team building courses are run by Chartered training experts using very carefully tried and proven techniques and thoroughly researched and refined methods. As you'll gather from reading the many endorsements and letters of support from our fans, Peak Activities Ltd's expert trainers are VERY serious about improving and then benchmarking the performance of our clients' teams' and individuals' training investments - and are keen to avoid being confused with the plethora of less effective training courses often offered elsewhere. Sadly, not all Outdoor Development Training Courses on offer in the UK are the same. In recent years we have become aware that there has been a huge variation in the quality and reliability of courses being offered by the staggeringly high ( over 3,500 ) number of "providers" of OMD courses. Ladybower Reservoir is close to our centre in Hathersage. Typically projects use our Consultancy Branch's tried and proven outdoor training methods and indoor techniques will examine the management of change, improvement of communications, development of leadership skills, and/or the inculcation of processes which will enable teams to initiate or develop further continuous improvement processes... very often through use of models such as the European Foundation for Quality Management Business Excellence Model. Peak Activities Ltd's Training Division's customers are invariably senior managers, directors & CEO's of some of the UK's leading commercial and industrial organisations...many of whom have written some very kind endorsements of our services. Our most senior training staff charge daily & hourly rates similar to those charged by accountants & lawyers. Groups are offered a wide range of different training centres and conference centres and hotels - and can even chose to be based on a camp site or in a camping barn if it's deemed an advantage. Clients can usually book their conference centre and /or and hotel accommodation through us or they may wish to book their training acommodation independently,
A day of personal instruction caving or abseiling or climbing with one of our senior staff makes a really fabulous and unique Christmas or birthday present for an individual who wants 1:1 tuition - or a small exclusive party of, say, two or three people.!
Just for the fun of it - whatever the weather !
Sports Events for Private Group Leaders : We have loads of different outdoor pursuits on offer in the Peak Park from abseiling to gorge walking and from caving to orienteering. Our instructors are in demand from organisers of informal exclusive days out and weekends for stag parties, hen groups, private company events sports clubs trips, and outings for families & groups of friends. Check out our new Stag Group Page on one of our other websites If you can tell us how much you want to spend and what dates you want and we can let you know what choice of activities you can choose from for mid week or weekend dates. Alternatively, if you tell us exactly what you want to include over, say, one or two days of sports activities & we can give you a written E-MAIL quotation for exactly what's specified. Click for endorsemenst & opinions from numerous group customers who have used this service. A large number of corporate customers have used us to supply them with totally safe, reliable sports weekends away. Click here for samples of their feedback comments. Phone us on 01433-650345 for some sample quotes for action-filled two days courses for private parties of 6 to 60 people.
The Sports Division of Peak Activities Ltd runs fun, safe, high-quality off-the-shelf "fixed price" non-residential sports sessions which are normally booked by fax or phone for groups of 6 to 30+ people who make their own group accommodation arrangements independently or with help from the friendly and helpful people in our office. We can also tailor sports events over one, two, three or more days for private groups wishing to organise tailored programmes involving activities such as abseiling, orienteering, climbing, abseiling, caving, potholing, mountain biking...and many other OUTDOOR activities. We have over 40 different activity sessions on offer in the UK and a growing number on offer at our new base in the Alps.. Typically clients include groups of friends, informal groups from work, stag groups, etc. The sports staff are also involved with organising tailored events for schools, colleges and university parties both during the midweek and at weekends.
b) CORPORATE EVENTS Director responsible : Caroline Jennings BSc PGCE
Peak Activities Ltd's Corporate Division runs both light-hearted off-the-shelf and tailored "jolly" social and team build events for exclusive groups from organisations such as banks, utilities, factories, accountancy firms, consultancies, charities and so on. Our corporate customers generally wish to book events in the form of complete packages including accommodation, meals in private function rooms, coach or minibus transportation, liability insurance, team prizes, etc. However, we are always happy to quote for just simple sessions of activities - such as an afternoon's treasure hunt, an evening's caving trip or a morning treasure hunt on bikes. Some of our regular corporate clients are listed on a separate page. This web site contains several pages of customers' thank you comments and open letters of endorsments. Our Corporate Department is very experienced in running top quality events for mixed age, mixed fitness parties, and groups with people who have limited mobility and other disabilities or special needs. We do ask all group organisers, however, to discuss fully with us any special needs well in advance of running each event. Click here to see some of our clients & their comments.... Popular events include Treasure Hunts and Group Challenge Competitions and incentives and rewards for staff groups who are celebrating achievements. We are also often asked to tailor events when clients wish to entertain guests and VIP's and are keen for everything to go right first time without any glitches. Well known clients whoi have been delighted using us for their inter-team events for their VIPS include AVIVA, Bosch, Union Railways / Channel Tunnel Rail Link, Lloyds Bank, Lufthansa, Boots the Chemists, Lucas, Egg, CapitalOne Bank and Unilever. ( clients ) In additional to our normal range of sports events, other group activities can be incorporated into corporate clients' programmes to suit mixed ability, mixed fitness groups. Many projects can be booked over the phone, but for those wanting something really special we also offer a face to face planning service allowing customers to tailor events. However, clients need a budget and must be prepared to pay for the extra fees involved in our sitting down and spending time with them and going over their specific requirements beforehand. Planning things out in fine detail is something we're very good at...and it is crucial very often in the successful implementation of our customers' wishes. Delighted feedback from customers over 25 years has proved to us the importance of good planning and preparation.
Peak Activities corporate clients tend to stay in a wide range of different types of accommodation to suit the needs, moods and interests of the custom er's participants. We have some very nice conferences centres and four and five star hotels for our discerning groups. These offer excellent en suite bedrooms, swimming pools, bars and facilities such as steam rooms and gyms. We have preferential discounted rates in place for people who are booking their evewnts with our team of trainers and outdoor instructors. These rates are very low and may surprise you..for example you can stay in the hotel with the pool shown above for as little as juyst £45 per person per night which is almost as inexpensive as staying in a local youth hostel AND we can provide the transfers to ghet you out to our base each morning by minibus if needed. We offer an accommodation booking service for our training and coporate entertainment customers which works well. Some corporate clients ask us to arrange different accommodation. The choice is all yours - whether you want to enjoy hotel luxury or camp out under the stars in tents or in a camping barn or stay in a local inn or youth hostel. We even have a "hire fleet" of new tents and sleeping bags and bag liners for groups who want to camp but who may not have the right equipment.
c) CONSULTANCY & TRAINING DIVISION Senior Consultants include : Dr. Iain Jennings BSc PGCE PhD FRGS, Chartered FCIPD Wing Commander Pete Daughtrey Chartered MCIPD MRAeS RAF (retired) Dr. Andy McLean BSc PGCE MSc PhD, Dip.Outdoor Ed. Peak Activities Ltd has over 25 years of experience in providing powerful opportunities for training professionals who are serious about using our unique blends of indoor and outdoor training & development programmes to help increase the performance and effectiveness or attitudes or behaviour of their teams and individuals. Over 25 years our training experts have carefully researched, designed and run bespoke, tailor made programmes for an impressive portfolio of clients including : -
* Personal Development Experiential Learning Courses * Leadership & Management Skills Development Programmes * Confidence Building & Skills Development Training * Team Performance & Continuous Improvement Initiatives * Bespoke Team Building Courses * Change Management Programmes ......
Over the years, the open feedback from the senior stakeholders who've booked this kind of serious training has been very positive. OMD with Peak Activities is a very cost-effective tool for change management and for boosting good communications. It will hopefully encourage you to speak with us if you wish us to help you make a difference in your own organsation. Some of our senior "hands on" staff are expert, highly qualified CIPD Chartered training & development consultants who have many years experience of designing, running & benchmarking & evaluating sophisticated high value, tailored events for our corporate clients. These bespoke events are often designed to help to change the attitudes and/or behaviour patterns or skills of their colleagues and themselves to boost the effectiveness and performance of individuals and teams. Whether you require a simple team building event or a more sophisticated team development programme - please talk to us about your requirements. See our other website http://www.iainjennings.co.uk for further information. Call 01433-650345 to speak with one of our trainers. Clients using us successfully for their diverse training and development projects over the past 25 years have included numerous NHS organisations including Acute Trusts and the NHS Supplies Authority, Lucas Aerospace, BP, Kellogg's, Rolls Royce, Boots, TXU, Eastern Electricity, the Commonwealth Development Corporation, HM Department for Education & Skills, e.on ( formerly Powergen), Transco, Land Rover, Robert Bosch GmbH, the Royal AIr Force, Astra Zeneca, CDC, Birmingham Cable, Legal & General Insurance, Lever Faberge, Mitchells & Butlers, Orange, Conoco Philips, Hyperion, Avon Cosmetics, Ordnance Survey, The Dept for Employment & Pensions, PriceWaterhouseCoopers Norwich Union Healthcare and many other household names. This work of this Division has been officially audited & approved many times by the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development and has also been featured on national television on national radio and in numerous articles in the international training press and in numerous articles published by our delighted customers. Click here to check out some of the comments from delighted customers from these and other corporate client organisations. Our bespoke training courses over three or four days have been found to be extremely effective in producing the results which discerning clients are seeking. However in a world where an hour or two of paintballing is sometime claimed to be "serious" team building, and where many non qualified trainers and consultants are offering "team building " events that include fire walking and other somewhat questionable jolly activities - you'll find that Peak Activities Ltd's team building courses are run by Chartered training experts using very carefully tried and proven techniques and thoroughly researched and refined methods. As you'll gather from reading the many endorsements and letters of support from our fans, Peak Activities Ltd's expert trainers are VERY serious about improving and then benchmarking the performance of our clients' teams' and individuals' training investments - and are keen to avoid being confused with the plethora of less effective training courses often offered elsewhere. Sadly, not all Outdoor Development Training Courses on offer in the UK are the same. In recent years we have become aware that there has been a huge variation in the quality and reliability of courses being offered by the staggeringly high ( over 3,500 ) number of "providers" of OMD courses. Ladybower Reservoir is close to our centre in Hathersage. Typically projects use our Consultancy Branch's tried and proven outdoor training methods and indoor techniques will examine the management of change, improvement of communications, development of leadership skills, and/or the inculcation of processes which will enable teams to initiate or develop further continuous improvement processes... very often through use of models such as the European Foundation for Quality Management Business Excellence Model. Peak Activities Ltd's Training Division's customers are invariably senior managers, directors & CEO's of some of the UK's leading commercial and industrial organisations...many of whom have written some very kind endorsements of our services. Our most senior training staff charge daily & hourly rates similar to those charged by accountants & lawyers. Groups are offered a wide range of different training centres and conference centres and hotels - and can even chose to be based on a camp site or in a camping barn if it's deemed an advantage. Clients can usually book their conference centre and /or and hotel accommodation through us or they may wish to book their training acommodation independently,
d) YOUNG PEOPLE'S TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT Top quality and safe serious training events for apprentices, police cadets, colleges, including all our services for under 18's Common to the work of this field is a focus on the wellbeing and needs of the individual participants and a desire to do a professional job safely and effectively at all times. Our staff are highly trained, highly qualified and thoughtful professionals ...many of whom are former lecturers and teachers with BED's PGCE's and MEd's - registered with the Department for Education. These staff are well paid professionals who are always in demand and consequently the courses and events under their aegis are not the cheapest in the area...but many of our customers feel their work is excellent and offers very good value for money. Please don't take our word for that though - please have a look at the many clients' comments and endorsements published elsewhere on this website from lots of delighted customers who've used us again and again. The successful work of our AALA licensed centre in Hathersage with under 18's goes back to before 1980 when many of our current team worked as consultants for the CHA & YHA. We now run short and longer events and courses for groups of under 18's all year round. Clients from prestigious, quality conscious organisations using us to help train and develop their young people include several police forces ( training groups of cadets ), as well as manufacturing businesses such as GEC, Bosch, Rolls Royce, Range Rover, Lucas & Babcocks. Several HE and FE organisations use us too. Click here please to see a typical feedback report from a delighted lecturer at a college in the W. Midlands. Youngsters can attend events designed to increase their interest in particular sports ( for example we've run hundreds of starter courses in potholing and caving for schools colleges and scouts groups who do not have their own DCA qualified staff or specialised equipment ). Other training and development events on offer include events to increase personal skills and qualities including leadership skills, confidence, team working skills, motivation and improve communications between and within groups. Special tailored events have often been run for groups wishing to develop language skills, first aid skills and problem solving, decision-making and other technical skills. Other work with young people has aimed to increase awareness and decrease demand for illegal drugs. Clients using us for the delivery of such specialised courses for under 18's include overseas education and uniformed organisations. FOOTNOTE ON NOMENCLATURE AND OUR DIFFICULTY WITH SOME ENQUIRER'S USE OF EXPRESSIONS LIKE "TEAM BUILDING" Have you noticed how so many people nowadays - including school children and students - go off for short "team building" events ? We would be the first to say that going off for a jolly time paintballing or going 10 pin bowling is fine if an organisation wants people to attend an informal "team jolly" to help folks gel together better ( we too often run similar events ourselves, of course ) but in our view such simple one day or two day " team building events" should not be confused with the much more serious and carefully planned & structured team development programmes run by training and development or change management speclalists. We often getting people asking us to quote them for a team-building event or team build without being very specific about what they really mean...and it can be quite an issue. Similarly, whilst the expression "outward bound course" is commonly in general use by English speaking people referring to outdoor pursuits courses - the terms Outward Bound is actually the registered trading title of the Outward Bound Trust established by the efforts of training and development specialists such as Kurt Hahn. We all know what people mean when they refer to the family's "Hoover " or the office's "Xerox" machine when in general conversation - and we have noted that even HM UK Government's Department for Education has often published White Papers and invitations for tender and other important documents with general text referring generically to (quote) "Outward Bound " Training Courses and Team Building Events in a rather loose way. We hope our clients won't mind us routinely telling them we don't run "Outward Bound" events here at Rock Lea - but we know what they mean. We also trust clients will be happy for us to make a firm distinction on this website between general sports activities and team-builds and the very carefully structured serious events we run here which are definitely not all corporate "jollies". On this website we will try to refer instead to "serious" training or to O.M.D. (outdoor management development ) to indicate courses which are designed to ( and which actually do ) change people's attitudes, skill sets or / and behaviour patterns. CORPORATE CUSTOMERS' COMMENTS ON HOW EFFECTIVE PEAK ACTIVITIES LTD'S SERIOUS TRAINING & O.M.D. COURSES HAVE BEEN FOR THEIR TRAINEES AND STAKEHOLDERS.. www.iain.co.uk is a big web site site crammed with hundreds of images, maps information. Click for links to Main Index page & our comprehensive A-Z alphabetical index page. ..........
d) YOUNG PEOPLE'S TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT Top quality and safe serious training events for apprentices, police cadets, colleges, including all our services for under 18's Common to the work of this field is a focus on the wellbeing and needs of the individual participants and a desire to do a professional job safely and effectively at all times. Our staff are highly trained, highly qualified and thoughtful professionals ...many of whom are former lecturers and teachers with BED's PGCE's and MEd's - registered with the Department for Education. These staff are well paid professionals who are always in demand and consequently the courses and events under their aegis are not the cheapest in the area...but many of our customers feel their work is excellent and offers very good value for money. Please don't take our word for that though - please have a look at the many clients' comments and endorsements published elsewhere on this website from lots of delighted customers who've used us again and again. The successful work of our AALA licensed centre in Hathersage with under 18's goes back to before 1980 when many of our current team worked as consultants for the CHA & YHA. We now run short and longer events and courses for groups of under 18's all year round. Clients from prestigious, quality conscious organisations using us to help train and develop their young people include several police forces ( training groups of cadets ), as well as manufacturing businesses such as GEC, Bosch, Rolls Royce, Range Rover, Lucas & Babcocks. Several HE and FE organisations use us too. Click here please to see a typical feedback report from a delighted lecturer at a college in the W. Midlands. Youngsters can attend events designed to increase their interest in particular sports ( for example we've run hundreds of starter courses in potholing and caving for schools colleges and scouts groups who do not have their own DCA qualified staff or specialised equipment ). Other training and development events on offer include events to increase personal skills and qualities including leadership skills, confidence, team working skills, motivation and improve communications between and within groups. Special tailored events have often been run for groups wishing to develop language skills, first aid skills and problem solving, decision-making and other technical skills. Other work with young people has aimed to increase awareness and decrease demand for illegal drugs. Clients using us for the delivery of such specialised courses for under 18's include overseas education and uniformed organisations. FOOTNOTE ON NOMENCLATURE AND OUR DIFFICULTY WITH SOME ENQUIRER'S USE OF EXPRESSIONS LIKE "TEAM BUILDING" Have you noticed how so many people nowadays - including school children and students - go off for short "team building" events ? We would be the first to say that going off for a jolly time paintballing or going 10 pin bowling is fine if an organisation wants people to attend an informal "team jolly" to help folks gel together better ( we too often run similar events ourselves, of course ) but in our view such simple one day or two day " team building events" should not be confused with the much more serious and carefully planned & structured team development programmes run by training and development or change management speclalists. We often getting people asking us to quote them for a team-building event or team build without being very specific about what they really mean...and it can be quite an issue. Similarly, whilst the expression "outward bound course" is commonly in general use by English speaking people referring to outdoor pursuits courses - the terms Outward Bound is actually the registered trading title of the Outward Bound Trust established by the efforts of training and development specialists such as Kurt Hahn. We all know what people mean when they refer to the family's "Hoover " or the office's "Xerox" machine when in general conversation - and we have noted that even HM UK Government's Department for Education has often published White Papers and invitations for tender and other important documents with general text referring generically to (quote) "Outward Bound " Training Courses and Team Building Events in a rather loose way. We hope our clients won't mind us routinely telling them we don't run "Outward Bound" events here at Rock Lea - but we know what they mean. We also trust clients will be happy for us to make a firm distinction on this website between general sports activities and team-builds and the very carefully structured serious events we run here which are definitely not all corporate "jollies". On this website we will try to refer instead to "serious" training or to O.M.D. (outdoor management development ) to indicate courses which are designed to ( and which actually do ) change people's attitudes, skill sets or / and behaviour patterns. CORPORATE CUSTOMERS' COMMENTS ON HOW EFFECTIVE PEAK ACTIVITIES LTD'S SERIOUS TRAINING & O.M.D. COURSES HAVE BEEN FOR THEIR TRAINEES AND STAKEHOLDERS..
www.iain.co.uk is a big web site site crammed with hundreds of images, maps information. Click for links to Main Index page & our comprehensive A-Z alphabetical index page.
Table of Contents Site Navigation Guide Rock Lea Activity Centre, Station Rd, Hathersage, The Hope Valley, The Peak District National Park, Derbyshire, United Kingdom, S32 1DD. Telephone Hope Valley +44 (0)1433 650345 Fax 01433-650342 Mobiles 07774-112204 & 07771-855105 Peak Activities Ltd is a company registered in Cardiff No. 2270004 Peak Activities Limited, also trades as "Rock Lea Activity Centre" and "Iain Jennings Associates" Company Directors : Anthony Kendall MIST MISM FRGS ; Caroline Jennings BSc PGCE ; Iain Jennings BSc PGCE PhD FRGS Chartered FCIPD Copyright : Peak Activities Limited 1997 - 2011 All rights reserved on all our copyright images, copyright text and all intellectual property contained herein. We have recently been awarded damages following people stealing out intellectual property & copyright images. Special thanks are due to artist Jim Watson for giving his permission for us to use his cartoons to liven up parts of our website.