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Doing it for a living?
hatler:
The CTUK rate is £30/hour for a qualified instructor.
I did the CTUK instructor course (with CTC bursary funding) a year ago. There were about ten of us on the course and one managed to get fully qualified within about a month. (The course provisionally qualifies you, you then have to go and get some training time in as an assistant instructor, then, when you're ready, you are assessed in a real session that you are giving.)
I didn't hear subsequently hear if any of the others managed to complete the qualification. (I certainly haven't.)
I know that one of those on the course was really struggling to find assistant instructor work, and he had gone the whole 'change my life' hog. (Ex-city boy, found a Dawes Galaxy and cycled to southern Spain by himself - a Damascene conversion.)
If you apply yourself and are willing to travel, and are good at chatting up likely lead instrcutors, there's no reason why you shouldn't be able to be fully qualified a month after taking the course. But you ought to be sure that you can do all of this before taking a leap into the unknown.
keepontriking:
There are some of the supposedly 'national' training providers who are snapping up the Cycling England funding granted to local authorities.
At least one of these is training instructors 'on-the-job'.
I'm not sure how this fits in with the original ideas of high quality training though.
hatler:
I'm clearly biased, but my recommendation would be to get trained by one of the only four agencies in the country thathave been certified to train instructors to the National Standards.
CTUK is one, and I think the others are in Manchester, York and, err ..... somewhere else (Bristol possibly ?)
Sorry, that's not much help. I'll see if I can dig the names of the other three out.
keepontriking:
I would go along completely with what hatler says but pick the training provider very carefully.
However there are now over a dozen and not all keep to the same methods or high principles of delivering the instructor training and some have watered it right down to be very questionable.
Be aware that some instructors have also reported to have had difficulty with the follow up mentoring from some of the providers.
The full list is here:
Cycle Training
Be aware too that you will need to jump through a lot of bureaucratic hoops if you wish to deliver Cycling England's Bikeability brand.
Not all instructors do, or find it necessary.
All that said it is a very enjoyable occupation with some terrific experiences. With some lateral thinking the opportunities are quite wide ranging.
I've been training nearly five years and whilst it is very seasonal, last year ran over 2000 trainee sessions. That was already beaten by May this year.
Even so, financially it is not that rewarding.
FWIW I can fully recommend LifeCycle in Bristol.
FatBloke:
Don't forget the relentless CRB checks, some of which you may have to fund yourself! :-\
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