About Us

IOL membership is at the core of what we do, and together we aim to build an outdoor learning community that is valued by practitioners, participants and the wider public.

The regional model exists to support its members by offering a more local focus in addition to the national newsletters and events organised by IOL. The region has a Committee whose main role is to represent your views and professional development. This takes the form of CPD and outdoor learning related events or through raising issues via the Roundtable, a quarterly meeting of regional and special interest group chairs with the IOL executive. In recent years we have run a very successful annual conference bringing together practitioners from across the sector to share, learn and network. While the conference is the main event, we are always looking for new ideas to enhance the regional offer, but these depend on us knowing what the need is, so if you have any thoughts please do let us know. 

The current NW Committee is:

Dave Harvey - Chair
Tim Deighton
Steve Randles
Richard Whall

The Committee is entirely voluntary and we are always open to new members. We meet online for the most part but try to get together once or twice a year. If you feel that you can contribute to moving the sector forwards and would like to be part of the committee, please get in touch.