Community Climbs

Meaning making in Climbing!

We focus on working together with community groups on sharing stories of what climbing means for people, as we all have a different focus. We want the climbing community to be more diverse to share a deeper understanding of what climbing brings to and takes from different communities and what can be done to make it better for the world!

White cis males are most heavily represented in climbing spaces and the outdoors in general and so their narrative of what climbing means and how it should be done is the most prominent. There are huge benefits to creating more diverse spaces to include women, Black people, people of Colour, people with conditions which affect their physical or mental health or capacity to climb/access climbing, and people of the LGBTQ+ community.

A more diverse community will create different perspectives, approaches to climbing, help develop the sport that we love in positive ways, as well as encourage others within the minority groups to give climbing a go! We want to take what action we can to create a safe space for people to explore climbing outside.

Free sessions for adults affiliated with organisations working with groups who are not represented strongly within the climbing community.

Who

What

A climbing session can be something local and simple, or something bigger. If we can get our heads together and make it happen, then we will!

Get in touch with your ideas!

When

When groups/organisations approach us with an idea for a climbing day or two!

Where

This is up for discussion where we can, we will travel!

Cost

We aim to provide these sessions for free whenever possible for those who need it. We rely on the volunteers who support Crux Climbing to run these days.

Email or call us:

info@cruxclimbing.co.uk

07907 450244

FAQs

  • There is still a lot you can learn in the rain! Unless the weather is so bad that it wouldn’t be safe to be outside, then we will brave the weather. We can either reschedule or climb indoors depending on your needs for the session!

  • See the about us section to meet our instructors

  • We can provide all the equipment for sessions. You may have your own equipment you prefer and you are welcome to use that instead, but our instructors will make sure it’s safe before the session starts

  • Here’s a video that explains sport climbing!

  • Everyone can climb and we all get different benefits from, it in so many different ways!

    You don’t have to. be the incredible hulk to start climbing as there are a massive variety of routes of many different levels.

    There are also lots of different techniques to adapt systems so that they work for those with bodies which conventional climbing set ups might not suit!

  • A day of climbing is about 6 hours with a break in the middle for lunch and comfort breaks through the day.

    If you have any specific needs please let us know as we are able to adapt sessions for a huge range of needs and we love making things work for everyone!

  • For those who feel worried about meeting new people, I am happy to meet you for a chat in a Bristol climbing wall before the session

  • Here’s a video that explains Trad Climbing!