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Ben Callaway
Director/ Instructor
Director & founder of Wilderness First Aid ,Ben is an active member of the team,
Instructing in bushcraft/ Survival & Rescue techniques. He is also responsible for
the general every day running of the courses.
He is a member of the Eastbourne Coastguard
cliff rescue team & has served with them for the past seven years.
As a cliff man/ medic, Ben was the joint recipient of the life saver of the year
award along with Roy Hopgood, fellow instructor.
He has spent a great deal of time
in an outdoor environment in the Military, search & rescue & as leader of wilderness
expeditions to such Places as northern Canada canoeing the great lakes.
The wilderness team
Roy hopgood
Instructor
The wilderness team
Roy is a Qualified Trainer/Assessor with a commitment to professionalism and quality
and a background of 30 years with the Ambulance Service as a Paramedic Manager.
He
spent 10 years as a voluntary coastguard, where he held the position as a Deputy
station officer for an area
including the Beachy Head cliffs -
of the Coastguard agency he was
also one of their First Aid Instructors.
Throughout his career Roy has received commendations
for incidents within his place of work from the Ambulance service and the Coastguard
agency.In 2004 this resulted in him receiving an award for the Coastguard agency
at the Vodaphone lifesavers awards at the Savoy Hotel in London along with him being
presented to the Prime Minister Tony Blair at 10 Downing Street.
Ty Wood
Instructor
The wilderness team
