Updated 21 January 2026
Imagine if every section in your district had enough confident, capable, and qualified adults to run brilliant Nights Away experiences—without bottlenecks, long waiting lists, or over‑stretched Permit Holders.
Interested? Then this is for you. At our Districts’ requests, the County Learning team plans to run a half day Module 25 Assessing Learning course on Saturday 31 January 2025, as mentioned in the December 2025 County News and the extra 2 hours learning for prospective Nights Away Assessors. More details are below:
Who is this training for?
It is for “leaders” who want to complete the learning as part of the initial steps towards obtaining an Accreditation to become a:
- a Nights Away Assessor, or
- an Activity Assessor, or
- a Learning Assessor
The course is part of a programme being run by the County’s Volunteering Development team to support Districts to secure additional assessors that will facilitate the award of “assessor accreditations”.
In order to obtain a Nights Away, Adventurous Activity or Learning Assessor accreditation learners have to undertake a 4 stage process:
- Step 1: Attend Module 25 training course
- Step 2: Complete topic specific additional training
- Step 3: Undertake validation steps
- Step 4: Attend a validation meeting/session with a learning assessor
To support Districts to secure additional assessors, the County Volunteering Development team will be running a programme in early 2026 that will facilitate the award of assessor accreditations.
Please ensure you have Group Lead Volunteer and District Lead Volunteer approval before registering for this course – you will be asked to confirm this when undertaking the booking process.
Adventurous Activity additional leaning is via a workbook. Copies will be available to take away after the morning’s course.
The sessions: Saturday 31st January 2026: County Office, 3 Bramley Road, St Ives PE27 3WS
09.30 – 13.00: (Step 1)This is a general session , delivered face to face, and is required by any leader wishing to gain the Nights Away Assessor or Activity Assessor or Learning Assessor accreditation.
13:30 – 15:30: is only for those seeking to gain the Nights Away Assessor accreditation and provides (as step 2) the additional learning for these Assessor tasks to be undertaken.
Adventurous Activity: (step 2) additional leaning is via a workbook. Copies will be available to take away after the general course.
Step 3: Self directed validation completion for all
Step 4: Module 25 Validation Session (for all)
Friday 17th April 2026: 19.30- 20.30, County Office, 3 Bramley Road, St Ives PE27 3WS
A one hour follow up session to enable learners to come along, discuss and evidence their module 25 validation material to accredited Learning Assessors. Once validated, the learning assessors will make recommendation to the learner’s District Lead Volunteer to award Nights Away/ Adventurous Activity Assessor accreditation within the new digital system.
