Spring Planning: Reviewing Activities and Keeping Cover Aligned

Spring Planning: Reviewing Activities and Keeping Cover Aligned 

For activity professionals, spring is a familiar transition point. Programmes expand, seasonal activities return and demand from schools, groups, families, and organisations begins to increase. While much of this planning is routine, spring is often the point at which activity delivery subtly changes in ways that are worth reviewing. 

As you finalise plans for the months ahead, are you considering running or expanding any of the following? 

Activities commonly offered in the spring season 

Land‑based and environmental activities 

• Bushcraft, woodland skills, and forest school sessions 

• Orienteering and navigation challenges 

• Outdoor learning, conservation, and environmental engagement 

• Team‑building and problem‑solving activities 

Adventure and height activities 

• Outdoor climbing, bouldering, and scrambling 

• Abseiling and rope‑based activities 

• High ropes courses, zip wires, and challenge elements 

Water‑based activities 

• Canoeing and kayaking 

• Raft building 

• Stand‑up paddleboarding 

• Early‑season moving water activities, where conditions permit 

Events and programmes 

• Multi‑activity residentials 

• Duke of Edinburgh’s Award expeditions 

• School enrichment and off‑timetable days 

• Corporate and wellbeing‑focused activity events 

Spring review prompts 

• Are we introducing any new activities or variations on existing ones? 

• Are activities moving from indoor to outdoor environments? 

• Are water‑based activities progressing from flatwater to moving water? 

• Are we operating at new or previously unused sites? 

• Have group sizes, age ranges or client types changed? 

• Are we engaging seasonal staff, subcontractors, or freelance instructors? 

If you are an AIM Member, please keep us informed of changes to activities you are offering, or the environment they are delivered in. Please ensure you have checked your risk assessments and procedures before you start the new season.