Club Activity

Club Activity  |  Supervised Club Activity    |  Paddling Competence

The Club arranges its public liability insurance through PUK.  The insurance only provides cover for club activity.  Club activity is defined as:

Any activity that has been assessed as part of the Club’s safety framework and promoted on the Club calendar, website or noticeboard.

Club activities also include inter-club activities where the responsibility for risk assessment and management is carried out and then shared between all participating clubs.

The PUK insurers want to be able to know exactly what they are insuring, and therefore they require the Club to identify all club activity sessions, and maintain a schedule of the authorised coach or leader for each session.


All club activity has the following characteristics

  • Risk assessed
  • The control measures stated to mitigate the risks identified within the risk assessments are included in the Club’s operating procedures.
  • Advertised on the Club’s website, forum or WebCollect.
  • A record is maintained of when the club activity takes place, which may be at standard times, or occasional sessions.
  • A member paddling alone is never undertaking club activity.
  • PUK has advised that it is necessary for the advertising of club activity to be accessible to all the club members, or as a minimum it should be clear how members can be added to the circulation of information about a particular type of club activity.
  • Circulation of information is required to be by methods that are moderated by club officials, so as to ensure that the club’s safeguarding procedures, and GDPR privacy requirements are followed.

Club activity may be then be divided into two categories:

Supervised club activity

Supervised club activity has the following additional features:

  • Delivered by and through authorised coaches and leaders, or external coaches.
  • A record is maintained of the coach or leader who is running each session.
  • The authorisation process for coaches and leaders is documented.

Supervised club activity may be advertised as follows:

  • On the website on the Activities pages when described as supervised club activity.
  • On WebCollect
  • On the club forum within the following categories:
    • Club Activity: Coaching offered for one offs and training
    • Club Activity: Club Trips and Tours
    • Club Activity: Summer coaching and Pool Sessions

Examples are

  1. Taster sessions open to prospective members
  2. Club coached sessions
  3. Club trips
  4. Pool sessions