BMC Funded Partners
Funded Partners
The BMC's collaboration with its funded partners creates a positive impact on the climbing and outdoor community. Through these collaborative efforts, we are fostering a community that thrives on inclusivity, ensuring that everyone can actively participate and find their place in the outdoors.
Mountain Training
Mountain Training is the collection of awarding bodies for skills courses and qualifications in walking, climbing and mountaineering that operates across the UK and The Republic of Ireland.
Plas Y Brenin
National Outdoor Centre
Plas y Brenin, The National Outdoor Centre is the UK’s home of true adventure. It is the place for everyone to come and discover new outdoor sports, improve their performance and have great adventures across a range of activities including climbing, hiking, kayaking, canoeing and mountain biking.
NICAS
National Indoor Climbing Award Schemes are an introduction to climbing and provide a gateway to learning more and developing a love for the sport. The key aim is to provide a safe and fun foundation for a lifetime of positive climbing experiences.
The nationally-recognised schemes help to standardise the teaching and coaching of climbing in a structured manner. There are approx. 270 centres that run NICAS schemes, which collectively have introduced over 200,000 young people to climbing.
Association of British Climbing Walls
The ABC is a small but ambitious organisation set to improve the opportunities and experience of the climbing wall industry and everyone that engages with it. It is their goal to raise the profile of indoor climbing in a positive way so that everyone feels welcomed and proud to be involved. Through their efforts to improve the safety and professionalism of the industry, they aim to improve the experience of climbers and the quality of the workforce; creating habits and career pathways that keep people in the sport for life.
Sport England
Sport England is a public body and invests up to £300 million National Lottery and government money each year in projects and programmes that help people get active and play sport.
It wants everyone in England, regardless of age, background, or level of ability, to feel able to engage in sport and physical activity. That’s why a lot of its work is specifically focused on helping people who do no, or very little, physical activity and groups who are typically less active - like women, disabled people and people on lower incomes. The BMC is amongst a group of over 120 organisations working in partnership with Sport England to level up access to sport and physical activity across the country.
UK Sport
UK Sport is the nation's high performance sports agency investing in Olympic and Paralympic sport. Its mission is to work in partnership to lead sport in the UK to world class success. Primarily this means working with our partner sporting organisations to deliver medals at the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
The BMC also collaborates with commercial partners to create a positive impact on the climbing and outdoor community. Click through to find out more about them.