National Indoor Climbing Award Scheme (NICAS)
If your kid climbs anything and everything then perhaps NICAS Bouldering is for them.
The National Indoor Climbing Award Scheme (NICAS) is a UK-wide scheme designed to promote climbing development and accredit individual achievement on indoor climbing walls. We are proud to be offering this fantastic scheme at Stronghold: Tottenham Hale and London Fields.
We offer NICAS Bouldering sessions for groups aged 7-10 years, and 11+.
Sessions run during school term times – 6 weeks for Level 1 or 12-weeks terms for Level 2 and 3.
Book once and just drop your kid off at the same time each week, with no need to book individual weeks or worry if a space is available for the next week.
NICAS Bouldering has been created by some of the most experienced coaches in the UK. Our coaches are here to help kids develop their agility, balance, coordination, and belief in themselves through fun and engaging climbing sessions.
View all upcoming NICAS term dates & make a booking.
View all upcoming NICAS term dates & make a booking.
New Bookings
If you are keen for your child to join our NICAS Bouldering sessions then please email ryan@thestrongholduk.com for Tottenham Hale and jon@thestrongholduk.com for London Fields.
Existing Bookings
If you are a parent with a child currently attending a NICAS course then we will be getting in touch to let you know when booking will be open for the next term.
If you haven’t already heard from us, please email ryan@thestrongholduk.com for Tottenham Hale, and jon@thestrongholduk.com for London Fields.
FAQs – NICAS Bouldering
Your child won’t miss out on anything that is on the NICAS Bouldering syllabus as our coaches are trained to work at the level and speed of the child. This is one of the advantages of NICAS Bouldering in that your child will learn at their pace and get to climb with other keen kids!
Our NICAS Bouldering sessions are term time, one off, payments so we cannot refund or credit any sessions missed by children. Please make sure to double-check that the times and dates suit you and your child’s schedule.
All children will have to complete a NICAS Level 1 before moving onto LEVEL 2 and then onto LEVEL 3. The scheme doesn’t allow Levels to be missed.
Even if your child is an experienced climber they will learn and improve with our NICAS Bouldering coaches. More than that, they will have fun!
If looking to move kids between sessions you must email the Lead Coaches and they will help you with this and explore any options.
For Tottenham Hale this is ryan@thestrongholduk.com and at London Fields it is jon@thestrongholduk.com
They can indeed. Just book the sessions you want. You will be paying for the full term time for both sessions.
Unfortunately, we cannot split one term time payment over 2 different days.
Alternatively, they can mix NICAS with our popular climbing clubs which can be booked on a session by session basis all year round including holiday times.