setting up a mountain guiding company

Tue, 18 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve been considering setting up a mountain walking company recently and did a bit of research into what’s actually needed. I didn’t include the initial cost of getting qualified as I’m already a Summer Mountain Leader, ML(S) and I’ve done the Winter Mountain Leader ML(W) training but until I go for assessment, I can’t get insurance to work in winter.

The first thing I’d need is a business, or in my case, set up as a Sole Trader. That means I can set up, say, Stravaiger Mountain Walking and have my name on all business communications as stipulated in the Sole Trader regulations. There’s a full guide to this here. I started on the Sole Trader stuff here.

Startup on eBothy Blog

setting up a mountain guiding company