Useful Information

Training
Training nights take place every Tuesday and Thursday at either Boulders or Flashpoint.
Each week the club will run supervision and training sessions for top rope climbing.
Subject to availability and requirements met by climbers, lead training sessions will also be available.
More information will be released as the year progresses but if you have any questions, please contact our Training Secretary, Immy, at StokesI@cardiff.ac.uk.

The club will also be running additional climbing skills sessions to support people looking to broaden their knowledge, their technique, and get outdoors.
Details of these sessions are to be confirm in time to come so keep an eye out!
To book onto any supervision or teaching sessions, you will find sign ups released for these on our events and tickets page of the website.

Club Night Buses
The CUMC runs buses on Tuesdays and Thursdays to either Boulders or Flashpoint.
Which location shall have a bus on a given day will be confirmed by a schedule released by the committee at the start of each semester.
If you are to get one of our buses, we meet outside of the Bagel place under the Students Union in anticipation of leaving at 6.15pm and will return around 9.30pm.
In previous years the club has subsidised these buses completely. Unfortunately, due to rising costs of hiring the buses, we are no longer able to sustainably run these buses completely free of charge.
As such, we will now be introducing a small fee of £1.00 per person to help contribute toward the significant costs the club incurs.
To book a spot on one of our buses, please purchase a ticket through our events and tickets page on the website.

Borrowing Club Gear
At the CUMC we love climbing gear and all things shiny.
The club maintains a store of gear for all the climbing adventures you can imagine, and we are eager to provide you the tools you need to have your adventures.
The club will lend gear to any member it believes to be suitably experienced to use and care for the gear they would like to borrow.
This is subject to the judgement of committee members, but we encourage that you reach to our Gear Secretary so that we can help you make the most of what is available.

Climbing Gyms
To both Boulders and Flashpoint we are grateful for their hospitality and help when put on our give it a go sessions.
Additionally, Boulders grants us discounted entry on club nights and special access to the gym.

Refund Policies

If you require a refund for a product bought or reimbursement for anything that was authorised in advance by a committee member please email PullenM2@Cardiff.ac.uk with the following information:

Name, Amount to be paid, Account Number, Sort Code, Reason for Payment and Evidence of purchase.

Refunds will be given on the basis that a suitable reason is received by a member of the committee 48 hours before the start of the trip/activity on the premise the trip space can be filled by another member.
There will be no membership refunds given.

Risk Assessments
Abseiling - Abseiling Hiking and Scrambling - Hiking-and-Scrambling Indoor Climbing - Indoor-Climbing Outside Bouldering - Outside-Bouldering Outside sport - Outside-Sport Outside Top Rope - Outside-Top-Rope Trad Climbing - Trad-Climbing Winter Mountaineering - Winter-Mountaineering

Operating Procedure Activities-Operating-Procedures-2024-25

Club Development Plan Club_Development_Plan_-_Mountaineering

Useful climbing related links:

UKC The definitive source for all Climbing and Mountain-related activity. UKC is the central source of information for climbing routes/crags in the UK.
South Wales Climbing Wiki - Topo Maps for climbs in the area.
BMC The national mountaineering representative body for England and Wales that exists to protect the freedoms and promote the interests of climbers, hill walkers and mountaineers, including ski-mountaineers.
BMC - Rock Knowhow - Collection of articles on outdoor rock climbing.
DMM climbing Welsh manufacturer of climbing equipment since 1981.
Mountain Training Awarding body for all climbing related qualifications
DMM Climbing Knowledge
Another collection of useful information.