Boulder Brighton : Climbing Centre

🙋 Courses available 23rd and 24th June 🙋

A Foundation Coach can help new and improving climbers with the fundamental movement skills of climbing. Foundation Coaches typically work with a group of individuals and may coach underneath a more experienced Development Coach. This official Mountain Training qualification is designed to enable coaches to be more effective in coaching the fundamental movement skills of climbing. Foundation Coaches will usually be concerned with the stimulating delivery of a single session to a group of individuals.

These courses are occasionally hosted at Boulder Brighton - see the Mountain Training website for details.

Requirements for booking:

🪨 You must be at least 16 years old
🪨 You must have a genuine interest in climbing and the coaching of groups on climbing walls.
🪨 You must have at least 6 months experience of climbing on a variety of climbing walls.
🪨 You must be a member (club or individual) of a mountaineering council (BMC, Mountaineering Ireland, Mountaineering Scotland)
🪨 You must create an account on the Mountain Training system and register for the Foundation Coach qualification

Upcoming courses at Boulder Brighton:
📅 Assessment - 23rd June 2026
📅 Training - 24th June 2026

Booking via the Mountain Training website, links in our bio

📸 BB XIII Photos are all in! 📸

Huge thanks to Richard Enticknap who took some fantastic photos as always on the Sunday of our BB XIII event this year! SO MANY great shots in there - we're only able to share a mere 20 highlights here but all 800+ are available to view on our website. Have a rifle through and see if you can find yourselves - feel free to repost but please tag in if you do.

For the full (and uncropped) sets, head to our website and click on the BB XIII links, you should be able to find them and the other photos taken over the event.

*Cave area rebuild from Monday 1st June for 2 weeks*

This summer we're carrying on with our work to keep the climbing fresh and new around the centre - this year with a rebuild of the Cave area! This is one of the original walls that we opened with in 2013, and we're excited to give it a bit of a facelift.

There will still be lots of steep climbing, but instead of a single horizontal roof we'll be building in a steep barrelled wall starting at about 75 degrees overhanging, with a couple of angle changes to give our routesetters lots of creative options and our climbers lots of varied blocs!

This means that, starting Monday 1st June, the back end of the right hand side of the centre will be largely out of action for a period of about two weeks. The New Slab and Bullseye Slab areas should remain open, but the Steep Corner and Cave will be out of bounds. We'll be open as usual, but there will be more limited booking availability and the space will probably feel a little busier than usual.

We apologise in advance for any inconvenience this may cause, but really hope the final results will be worth it! Please bear with us over the period.

Yesterday we hosted the final part of our BB XIII event - the Youth Finals! Hopefully a fun experience for the amazingly strong youth that took part and some great experience for the future.

Final results were:

Youth Female:
🥇 Molly Roberts
🥈 Sophie Florent
🥉 Erin Lewis

Youth Male:
🥇 Spencer Ingram
🥈 Raffety Harrap
🥉 Stanley Derbyshire

Full finals results and a load of photos from the morning are up on our website - link in bio. Just a few choice highlights on this post.

Youth Finals blocs will be up on the Comp Wall for the next 10 days or so.

More photos from last week's Sunday sessions and Open Finals coming soon.

We unpacked a big delivery of new holds from , and at XIII - some are already up on the wall, look out for more being introduced over the next few sets.

Always seems a shame to get them chalky when they look this good on the ground! 😍

Photos starting to come in from last weekend - here are some great ones from Saturday afternoon - can you spot yourself? Head to our website for the full photo album, link in bio!

Thanks to for some great pics! 📸

Lots more images to come from Sunday, watch this space.

Come and join us for the final part of our BB XIII celebrations - the Youth Finals! Top scoring youth competitors have been invited to participate, with a finalists briefing at 9am and climbing set to start at 9.30am.

Please note the centre will be open as usual BUT the left hand side of the centre will be out of action during the event. It should be back to normal by 11am with new Youth Finals blocs available to try.

Spectators welcome.

Thank you to everyone who bought a ticket for the Finals event at BB XIII last night, or added an extra donation - you raised £491 for to help in their work in mental health and youth su***de prevention. This year we decided to match this amount and round it up so we could get a round £1000 to a great cause.

One of the comp qualifier blocs was set in our Hold on For Harry holds in the Papyrus colours, and is still up for a while, make sure you give it a go.

It's a wrap!

Blown away by how many people came to celebrate with us over our anniversary weekend, we had over 900 people take part including more than 500 comp entries in the end, absolutely brilliant.

A huge shout for the Open Finalists who put on an amazing show for the crowd. Finals winners on the day were Luc Munier - first time winner after 5 previous Finals appearances - and Anais Bayne, who will have her name added to the winner's trophy after her sister's from from last year!

Youth Finals will take place next Saturday at 9am, we will be in touch with the finalists shortly to let them know.

All the scores for the event are now up on our website - link in bio.

Other prize winners on the day are listed below - if you haven't already collected your prize, it's waiting for you at the centre, so just ask at the front desk next time you're in:

🏆 Gender Inclusive: Elameno, Ruri Parker, Jessie Fleischhack
🏆 Masters Female: Chloe Parker, Hil Vince, Carina Bauer
🏆 Masters Male: Richard Johnson, Alastair Harrison, Nick Dove

The random prize draw from all competition entries will be taking place shortly, check back soon to see who won those!

Big thanks to the whole setting team for the Finals, qualifiers and festival boulders including Jake Mason, Zoe Wood, George Mellors, Dipika Hopkins, Oli Woolgrove, James Gomez, Charlie Taylor and Tom Bauer as well as all the rest of the amazing BB staff who put in a huge effort to make things run smoothly for the event. We're doing a lot of in-fill setting this week, with a load of the comp blocs still up for a while as well as a range of regular climbs in between.

Most of the qualifiers and finals blocs are still up for you to try until those areas get fully reset in the weeks to come, so still time to get involved if you couldn't make it at the weekend.

Lots of photos to come too! 📸