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Please note that the BMC Office is closed for the festive period from 12:30 pm on Wednesday 24 December 2025 through to Friday 2 January 2026.
Access News
In addition to welcoming four new trustees, the BMC Access & Conservation Trust has been busy in 2025, securing grants and creating fundraisers to support crag and mountain path repair, moorland restoration and landscape conservation in hill walking and climbing areas. Here are this year's highlights.
Huts
Save the Date: Saturday 7th February 2026
Clubs
This popular training event offers support to experienced club members who take less experienced club members out in winter conditions.
Hill Walking News
As part of our Hill Walking Webinar Series, Natalie Wilson will be speaking for an evening about her experience guiding the Coast to Coast walk from St Bees to Robin Hoods Bay.
Organisation
This popular training event is for experienced members of BMC-registered clubs to learn about training novices in climbing, scrambling and hill walking.
Rock Climbing
Apply to become a Host at the 2026 BMC International Summer Meet between the 13 - 20 June 2026.
Hill Walking News
As part of our Hill Walking Webinar Series, Dr David Fong will introduce ideas of co-evolution and how complex cognitive, emotional and physical systems in the human body developed in partnership with the natural world.
Rock Climbing Articles
When it comes to gift-giving, we know the best things in life aren't always 'things'! Team BMC have been hard at work putting together a list of really great Christmas gift ideas that are a bit ‘outside the box’...
Rock Climbing News
Castlemartin is on Pembrokeshire Coast National Park (PCNPA) land, and is a popular climbing destination. This area also includes Range West, a military training area with a firing range, so climbers must attend a briefing before accessing the area. The briefing dates have now been published for 2026.
Organisation
This training has been developed for affiliated clubs with a safeguarding contact and children attending sessions with parents/carers. Additionally, this session is open to anyone from an affiliated club who wishes to find out more about general safeguarding and what to do if they have a concern.
Safeguarding Child Training
The workshop is for coaches, instructors and leaders working with under 18s to provide them with information about their safeguarding responsibility to under 18s and how to safeguard themselves.
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Campaigns
From footpath repair, re-growing our moorlands to fight the climate crisis, to organised litter picks on the hills and to rallying members to write to their MPs asking for the removal of the sale of disposable BBQs, we have a great range of campaigns to get behind. Find out more about our active campaigns, and why they're making a difference to the British hills you love.
Volunteers
Our dedicated and passionate network of hundreds of volunteers are the lifeblood of the BMC. From opportunities within conservation, access, competitions and walk leaders. Come and join us!
Clubs
Looking to join a mountaineering, climbing or hill walking club or are you already a member? We have all the essential BMC clubs information and advice for you.
EVENTS CALENDAR
Peak Area Walks
This social walk will follow the river out of the village then up through woodland to the Hayfield 'Dragon's Back' and over the Ethels of Mount Famine, South Head, Brown Knoll and Kinder Low before descending through Tunstead Farm back to Hayfield.
Access Articles
Applications now open! Thinking about running a crag or path restoration day in your local area? Fantastic. £5,000 has been allocated for volunteer led environmental initiatives and workdays to improve crags across England and Wales. Small grants of £250 to £1,000 will be available to help local climbers undertake practical work to improve crags and promote nature conservation over the winter months.
Midland Area Walks
This training activity will explore the experience of walking at night in a lowland area utilising the local Rights of Way system
Midland Area Walks
This free training walk will discuss incident management and implement resolutions whilst walking in a lowland area utilising the local Rights of Way (RoW) system.