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
26 August
Many thanks also to Alien Rock Climbing Centre in Edinburgh for donating £10 to our Just Giving charity. See their entry on the Kid-Friendly Climbing Walls/Club page.
25 August
Big thanks to Kent & Sussex Climbing for donating £10 to our Just Giving charity. See their entry on the Kid Friendly Courses page or.
9 July new stuff.
New online climbing games added!
Climbing robot added to Videos page.
3 July 2010 new stuff.
Simpler Grades Guide in Technique/Safety page. The old one was a bit too complicated!
Also Swanage topo page link in Kidrock page with thanks to Mike Swann.
03 July 2010 Outdoor/climbing kit for sale:
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.
When Paul Kellagher, one of our parent visitors had a problem with an order recently, Walkhigh Mountaineering quickly resolved it for him, and generously donated £10 to our current charity. Thanks Walkhigh!
Mountain weather reports added on 26 June 10.
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.
I came across this useful link recently to the UK Children's Directory - it's a comprehensive web directory of children's activities and services throughout the 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.
