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Dave Faulconbridge - Chair
David became Chair of Mountain Training England in June 2015. Prior to this he was the representative for the Outdoor Education Advisers’ Panel and joined MTE in 2007.
David has worked in outdoor education since starting his career at Outward bound Wales in 1981. He is a qualified Teacher and Youth Worker and has been Head of Oldham’s local authority centre for 20 years. He advises Oldham schools on all aspects of educational visits and adventure activities. He is a member and past Chair of the Outdoor Education Advisers Panel. David is a Mountaineering Instructor with a wide range of outdoor qualifications.
As Chair his responsibilities currently include representing MTE on the Boards of Mountain Training UK and the Mountain Training Trust, which runs Plas y Brenin, The National Mountain Centre.
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Chris Forrest - Director
Throughout my career I have enjoyed working at various outdoor centres, including Glenmore Lodge and Plas Y Brenin for over 20 years and the past 8 years I have worked as Chief Instructor for Joint Services Mountain Training Centres (JSMTC).
From a career of Instructing/ coaching at the highest levels across a wide range of outdoor activities worldwide and working and directing of most mountaineering governing body courses to developing new schemes within paddle sport and skiing.
From this corporate knowledge I am able to support and share my experience within my role as Board member with Mountain Training.
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Tony Halliwell - Director
Tony is a Mountaineering Instructor Certificate holder who can be found each year working on winter climbing and mountaineering courses on the west coast of Scotland and leading commercial trips to climb 6,000m peaks in Nepal. He is a provider of Mountain Training courses and also works as a technical advisor for a number of climbing walls/activity centres.
His outdoor career started in the mid-eighties as a volunteer instructor with Bremex, which was at that time part of the London Borough of Brent’s Youth and Community service. The gradual switch to instructing for a living began in the mid-nineties when he passed his Mountaineering Instructor Award.
Tony was an executive director of Mountain Training UK from 2014-2017, is a past chair of Association of Mountaineering Instructors and is currently one of the two permanent members of AMI’s professional standards committee.
He loves big mountains and ice-climbing and can regularly be found clipping bolts on sports-climbing holidays with his wife Amanda who is an International Mountain Leader.
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Rik Payne - BMC Nominated Director
Rik is the BMC’s nominated director on MTE’s Board, having been involved with the BMC both locally and nationally and was a member of the BMC’s Board up until April 2019.
Rik has worked in the outdoor education sector since the 1980s. He is a qualified teacher and holds a number of Mountain Training qualifications. Rik has worked as a freelance instructor at multiple centres and also ran his own business working with clients as diverse as teenagers from gangs in central London to DofE participants from private schools. He eventually took a job with a charity managing an outdoor centre in Kent and subsequently became the Education and Training Manager for the charity overseeing the education standards and adult training courses for nine centres across England and Wales.
Rik used to live in the “flattest part” of the UK but moved to Sheffield in 2018 where he now works with children with special educational needs. He splits his free time between climbing and walking in the Peak District.
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