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About Action Finder

Action Finder allows you to easily find exciting adventure training activities and instructors. The whole range of Adventure Training activities are available, from Kayaking, Canoeing and Archery to Orienteering, Walking and Climbing!

Benefits for Adventurous Individuals

It can be really difficult to find, compare and book adventure activities. There are hundreds of providers, and many different courses and taster sessions available. It is also near impossible to book sessions with qualified, experienced individuals. Action Finder makes this easy by providing rich search functionality, instructor and course ratings, and transparent online cost information.

You also benefit by being able to subscribe to favourite types of courses, instructors, or locations. You will be able to login and find past courses you have participated in, useful if you're working on an outdoor qualification yourself. The online payment and booking facilities also take the hassle out of booking adventure activities. You can use our site to plan an entire programme of activities, useful if you're on a family holiday.

Benefits for Consuming Organisations (Schools, Youth Groups, etc.)

In order for Instructors and Providers to advertise their offerings on this site they have to provide evidence of current qualifications, training, Insurance and, where appropriate, AALA licenses. This gives your organisation peace of mind by knowing all the minimum legal requirements have been met before a course is even publicised. We make regular checks of people qualifications and Insurance details.

You can also put together a free advert asking individual instructors and providers to quote for activity days you wish to happen. This takes the hassle out of putting together a customised programme. You specify exactly what you want, and the relevant instructors and providers in the specified areas are asked to quote for the business. You just sit back and wait for the responses to come in. No need to sit on telephones for hours.

Benefits for Instructors

It can be hard as a freelance instructor to advertise and increase word of mouth in your available skills and courses that you run. Action Finder allows you to advertise yourself as an instructor. It also allows you to advertise activities you are currently offering. You can even allow people to request custom sessions of the courses you run.

Action Finder also takes away the hassle of maintaining a current list of qualifications, insurance and training. Our online facilities allow you to enter your qualifications, AALA licenses, and insurance details. We will then notify you in advance of this becoming out of date. We also allow end users to view the proof of your qualifications and we check your credentials with AALA and the relevant NGBs. No need to photocopy your qualifications and send them to your potential customers, just send them to your online profile. What could be easier?

Benefits for Providing Organisations

It can be difficult to advertise your courses and activities to a wide audience. Action Finder allows you to describe your upcoming activities and publish them on the web. Instead of getting someone to build you a complex and expensive website you can use our activity listings to manage your courses, bookings and payment.

Action Finder also maintains a list of current instructors you employ along with their qualifications and insurance information. We will also list your centre's AALA license, if applicable, giving your customers total peace of mind. Our automated notifications will ensure all instructor information is up to date. You can record training you give to staff, helping to prove to the licensing authority and NGBs that you are compliant with their rules and regulations. You can do all this with the minimum of admin time, helping you concentrate on running a successful business.

Action Finder maintains a comprehensive list of instructors and providers. This enables instructors to advertise that they are seeking work, and you to advertise available full time or casual staff positions. Our social networking features such as comments, activity history, and user ratings of instructors and courses can help you find and evaluate potential instructors with ease.

Benefits for Licensing Authorities and NGBs

In order to register and advertise on Action Finder all Instructors and Providers have to prove their qualifications and insurance. We at Action Finder will work closely with AALA, NGBs and the Instructors and Providers to ensure that all activities listed on the site are provided by correctly qualified individuals.

The Social Networking facilities of Action Finder will help licensing authorities and NGBs see the courses ran by instructors, their popularity, ratings and comments. This gives you a solid background of current experience and feedback from end consumers.

We at Action Finder check all qualifications to give consumers peace of mind. We act as the checking organisation, minimising the number of individuals phoning NGBs and licensing authorities to validate instructors and providers. In the future we hope to provide you with the facility to respond to these validation requests online in a speedy fashion. We are keen to hear from the licensing bodies and NGBs about such partnerships. We at Action Finder see this as vitally important to give credibility to the industry.

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