Outdoor brand Rab (owned by Equip Outdoor Technologies Ltd.) has announced a new partnership with the Jonathan Conville Memorial Trust (JCMT). This partnership, built on the shared aim of making mountains more accessible to the younger generation, will commence with the 2025 JCMT courses.

After the success of our 2023 ‘Ladies’ Night’, we will once again be running an online session for potential female applicants in 2024. Women thinking of applying to our Summer Alpine Courses are invited to join us on Zoom to hear an overview of the courses and to ask any questions they may have about the application process or the courses themselves.

From 2024, the Alpine Club will support the work of the Jonathan Conville Memorial Trust through an annual donation that will provide 10 places on the JCMT’s Summer Alpine Course.

Following a meeting of the trustees of the Scottish Mountaineering Trust (SMT) in March 2023, the SMT have provided a very generous £2,000 of funding for the JCMT’s 2024 Scottish Winter Programme.

There are now more women using climbing walls and getting outside at crags than ever before and, while some of our courses have equal numbers of male and female participants, our summer alpine courses see noticeably fewer applications from women.

In 2022, JCMT courses returned to some form of normality after a tumutuous couple of years. 130 stuents attended our mountain safety course in North Wales and the Alps, and we began a new partnership with peak Mountain Training.

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