How will you use this account?
Join sessions, keep a personal log and skills picture. Membership is pending until this organisation approves you.
Same account — you are asking this organisation to grant leader access so you can run sessions. That stays pending until an organisation admin approves it. You can still paddle in the meantime.
Optional. Turns on Coaching notes on the Leader menu, coaching plans, and the Coach pack. You can change this later on Personal details. Outing leaders can skip this.
Your request must be approved by that organisation’s admin, duty officer, or a site administrator before you count as a full club member. Leader access is granted separately by an organisation admin or site administrator.
Click the calendar icon to pick a date (dd/mm/yyyy).
Who to contact on your behalf in an emergency (same as participant sign-in and Personal details).
You can add awards later on Personal details.
Awards and leadership (optional)
Optional. You can skip this and add awards later on Personal details.
Tick awards you currently hold. Skip Paddle Awards if you just paddle.
Leadership awards feed the session map (declared by you).
How remits work
· Which qualification? .
Environments these leadership awards cover
Tick a leadership, coaching, or instruction award to see the environments they cover. Paddle Start / Discover / Explore and PPAs do not add a map overlay.
Noted as self-declared. This does not change where you can paddle or the session map.
No independent remit yet. Tick a leadership award, or use “Other / working under direct supervision” and describe the arrangement on the session.
Paddle Awards (getting started)
First time on the water. Self-declared — not a certificate check, not a remit to paddle harder water, and not a leadership award.
Building independent skills and decision-making. Self-declared — not a leadership remit and not required to paddle recreationally.
Taking ownership of where you paddle next on sheltered water. Self-declared — not a map overlay and not a water-access gate.
Personal Performance Awards
Paddler-led award in canoe. Self-declared; levels and assessments stay with BCAB. Does not change the session map.
Paddler-led award in kayak (including touring). Self-declared. Does not grant a leadership remit.
Paddler-led sea kayak award. Self-declared on Personal details (you mark that you hold it). Not a trip log and not a leadership remit.
Paddler-led white water award. Self-declared; not a leadership remit.
Paddler-led stand up paddleboard award. Self-declared.
Paddler-led surf award. Self-declared; not a coaching qualification.
Instruction (taster / introductory)
Introductory / taster sessions in a managed venue under a deployer’s safety framework. To work independently on very sheltered or sheltered water the instructor needs site-specific training and assessment, first aid, safeguarding, and to be 18 or over.
Same deployment notes as Paddlesport Instructor, for SUP. SUP is not endorsed on weirs.
Crew-craft helm for very sheltered and sheltered water.
Leadership (journeys)
Lead others on sheltered water: ≤ 200 m offshore, wind ≤ Force 3, and slow ungraded rivers (not weirs or rapids).
Leadership award for SUP on very sheltered and sheltered water. Not for weirs.
Assessed on moderate inland open water and slow-moving rivers up to grade 1, which may include an occasional short grade 2 rapid and simple safe weirs. Also deemed appropriate for inland tidal water with defined easy landings, slow estuaries (< 0.5 kn), and wind not above Force 4 (Force 3 if offshore). Not a sea, surf, or advanced-water award.
Artificial / stadium white-water courses. Site operating procedures apply.
Coaching
Coach Award (Sheltered Water) and equivalent UKCC / BCAB sheltered-water coaching awards.
Other
* Amber / starred environments need site-specific training as well as the award (BCAB note for Instructors on sheltered water).
To book a course: meet the prerequisites, register with your national association , then choose dates from your Delivery Centre.
Paddles Up Training (England and international) ·
Paddle Cymru (Wales) ·
Paddle Scotland (Scotland) ·
Paddle Northern Ireland (Northern Ireland)
Shore / duty coverage you can provide
— Not a shore duty role, or not set —
Visible from base
Radio / phone check-in
Vehicle-reachable
Self-contained journey
Used when you are named as duty / shore. This is coverage capability, not an on-water leadership remit: visual from base, radio check-in, vehicle-reachable landings, or self-contained journeys.
First aid and safeguarding (optional)
Notes (renewal dates, provider, anything not in the list)
Other training
