Kid-Friendly...
A growing list of links to a variety of Kid-Friendly and generally useful climbing resources. Choose from:
National organisations/sites
The British Mountaineering Council (BMC) Youth Membership
The Mountaineering Council of Scotland (MCS) Youth section
Also the MCS Real Rock section for younger kids. (Thanks to Davy Virdee for both)
Home-made climbing walls
For the slightly more enthusiastic DIY expert with a few cubic meters available - Building a home bouldering wall (1.08Mb .pdf file from Metolius climbing). Also take a look at this link which has lots more links lower down the page.
Child-friendly climbing holds from Indoor-rock.co.uk
Novelty climbing holds from Beacon Climbing.
Synrock holds
An excellent site that sells holds, but better, shows you lots of info on how to build them, plus lots more!
Other Links
Cool painted climbing walls by
Gail Astbury
Atlantic Ocean Wall
Climbing Glossary
From those wonderful people at UK Climbing.com
Noticeboard
13 Dec 2011
New Testimonials page available.
12 Dec 2011
All gear listings have now been fully updated. Broken links to previous retailers pages have been removed. You can restore links to your products on payment of £10 to the Kidsclimbing charity.
Now that's really great value!
09 June 2011
Many thanks to Mountain Trips who kindly donated £10 to Kidsclimbing's Just Giving charity the Children's Trust recently!
IMPORTANT NEWS! All companies with links to their sites from the Kidsclimbing pages please note - although we don't charge for a link, it would be appreciated if you donate to my current charity the Children's Trust by using the link in the left hand menu on a regular basis. After all you're getting free advertising and they would benefit greatly from any donation.
Like our cool cartoons? Thanks to our fantastic artist Abi for creating them especially for Kidsclimbing! Look at more of Abi's excellent work at Greencreepers.co.uk.
Any parents⁄carers who have second hand⁄outgrown climbing/walking boots please contact me and I'll post it up on the noticeboard.
If you've got any comments or questions about this site or you can write a review of any of the gear, please contact me.
