Personal Performance Award Resources

Below you will find course documents and the eLearning for the Personal Performance Awards.

Provider eLearning

The Personal Performance Awards Provider eLearning is designed to support Providers with the delivery of the British Canoeing Personal Performance Awards. The activities will give a range of information about how Providers can support paddlers and all the information they need to know about the Personal Performance Awards.

The eLearning costs £15, will take approximately an hour to complete and you will also receive the following upon completion:

10 CPD Points
Provider Pack

The eLearning can be accessed on the British Canoeing Awarding Body Learning Platform by clicking here.

Award Documents

Personal Performance Awards Details (532.9 KiB, 14,982 hits)

Personal Performance Awards Delivering the Awards (576.7 KiB, 9,487 hits)

Personal Performance Awards Provider Requirements (255.3 KiB, 554 hits)

Personal Performance Awards Final Recommendation Guidance (194.7 KiB, 241 hits)

Personal Performance Awards Provider Recommendation (619.3 KiB, 7,835 hits)

Personal Performance Awards FAQs (248.3 KiB, 188 hits)

For award content documents without watermark images please click here.

Canoeing Content

Canoe Award (1.3 MiB, 10,229 hits)

Progressive Canoe Award (7.1 MiB, 6,064 hits)

Advanced Canoe Award (1.5 MiB, 3,978 hits)

Freestyle Content

Flat Water Freestyle Award (1.1 MiB, 2,630 hits)

Freestyle Award (1.8 MiB, 1,731 hits)

Advanced Freestyle Award (1.7 MiB, 1,733 hits)

Polo Content

Polo Explore Award (1.2 MiB, 1,778 hits)

Polo Perform Award (1.2 MiB, 1,576 hits)

Polo Excel Award (1.1 MiB, 1,546 hits)

Racing Content

Racing Explore Award (1.4 MiB, 1,926 hits)

Racing Perform Award (1.3 MiB, 1,751 hits)

Racing Excel Award (1.4 MiB, 1,653 hits)

Rafting Content

Flat Water Raft Racing Award (1.1 MiB, 1,551 hits)

Stadium Raft Racing Award (2.3 MiB, 1,513 hits)

River Raft Racing Award (1.6 MiB, 1,516 hits)

Sea Kayak Content

Sea Kayak Award (976.8 KiB, 12,562 hits)

Coastal Sea Kayak Award (1.3 MiB, 9,351 hits)

Advanced Sea Kayak Award (974.1 KiB, 5,815 hits)

Slalom Content

Slalom Explore Award (912.9 KiB, 1,818 hits)

Slalom Perform Award (1.0 MiB, 1,626 hits)

Slalom Excel Award (1.4 MiB, 1,490 hits)

SUP Content

SUP Sheltered Water Award (1.4 MiB, 8,924 hits)

SUP White Water Award (385.6 KiB, 2,762 hits)

SUP Paddle Surf Award (915.7 KiB, 2,227 hits)

Surf Kayak Content

Surf Kayak Award (1.0 MiB, 2,319 hits)

Progressive Surf Kayak Award (1.3 MiB, 1,772 hits)

Advanced Surf Kayak Award (3.0 MiB, 1,584 hits)

Touring Content

Touring Award (910.8 KiB, 5,445 hits)

Open Water Touring Award (918.5 KiB, 3,717 hits)

Multi Day Touring Award (1.3 MiB, 3,412 hits)

White Water Content

White Water Award (1.2 MiB, 8,182 hits)

Progressive White Water Award (1.5 MiB, 4,947 hits)

Advanced White Water Award (1.2 MiB, 3,251 hits)

Stadium White Water Award (1.3 MiB, 1,021 hits)

Progressive Stadium White Water Award (1.4 MiB, 858 hits)

Wild Water Racing Content

Wild Water Racing Explore Award (1.3 MiB, 1,473 hits)

Wild Water Racing Perform Award (1.3 MiB, 1,399 hits)

Wild Water Racing Excel Award (1.3 MiB, 1,413 hits)

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Paddlesport Safety and Rescue Course

This course was launched on the 4th January and aims to provide paddlers with the key safety and rescue skills required to operate safely and be able to deal with common problems in a sheltered water environment.

The course content focuses on rescuing from the paddlers specific craft and covers equipment, safety frameworks, as well as a range of rescues such as contact and towing rescues, self-rescues and deep water rescues.

Find out more about this course!

Stand Up Paddleboard Instructor

This course was launched on the 4th January and aims to support Instructors running SUP taster/starter sessions and short journeys in very sheltered water environments.

The 2 day course helps to prepare candidates for their first SUP instructing role, ensuring they are ‘primed and ready’ to deliver safe and enjoyable sessions for people new to paddleboarding, within the safety management systems of clubs, centres or other organisations.

Find out more about this course!

Inclusive Language eLearning

This eLearning was launched on the 11th January and will cover the importance of using inclusive language and the impact it can have on those around you.

This module provides an understanding of key terms, definitions and examples of inclusive language; supports learners on how to identify and tackle inappropriate or exclusive language such as banter and microaggressions; and how to challenge it when it happens.

International Webinars

We have held several International webinars throughout the year the first being Paddling in France which was on 15th February 2023, this was then followed by the United States of America on 15th March 2023 we then had Nepal, Norway and the latest one Austria which was on 21st June 2023.

If any resources were used in the webinar you can now find them on the BCAB Digital Library along with the recording of the webinars. Unfortunately Paddling in Norway wasn\’t recorded so that wont be on the Digital Library.

Manual Handling eLearning

This eLearning was launched on the 31st January and will cover different types of manual handling, how we can consider and manage risk and shows the steps we can take when manual handling to better protect our bodies.

Throughout paddlesport, there are many occasions when we are lifting, carrying and moving craft, as well as performing rescues. It’s essential we reflect on current practice and consider whether we are putting ourselves and others in potential danger of damaging joints and muscles, particularly when moving or lifting equipment or people.

Sea Kayak Safety and Rescue Course

This course was launched on the 2nd May and aims to provide paddlers with the key safety and rescue skills required to operate safely and be able to deal with common problems on the sea, in both sheltered and moderate conditions.

Find out more about this course!

New eLearning platform

On the 14th June we moved over from the Sarola shop to our own new eLearning platform on BCAB. We made this change because learners have asked us to reduce the number of our websites they need to use.

Inland Open Water Safety and Rescue

This course was launched on the 1st June and aims to provide paddlers with the key safety and rescue skills required to operate safely in a moderate inland open water environment.

All of the modules are interactive, practical sessions, discussing and using equipment, and exploring possible solutions to common issues. Modules include safety frameworks, clothing and equipment, self rescues, as well as rescue scenarios.

Find out more about this course!

Euro Paddle Pass (EPP)

British Canoeing Awarding Body attended a meeting with other National Federations to consider the framework of paddle sport competency in all disciplines across Europe.

The Euro Paddle Pass (EPP) as it is known has members from Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Slovenia, Sweden, and Switzerland.

Each National Paddlesport certification system maps across to the requirements of the EPP standard within a specific discipline and ranges from levels 1 to 5.

The BCAB relatively new personal performance awards (January 2019) have now been mapped, verified and agreed at specific levels within the framework.

Pathway opportunities for Slalom Coaches

British Canoeing Awarding Body is pleased to announce that it has developed an alternative pathway for Slalom Coaches, and is now offering two regulated qualifications:

Slalom Coach (Grade 1/2)
Slalom Coach (Grade 2/3)

During a review of the existing pathway for Slalom Coaches it was evident that many clubs do not operate within the environmental definitions of moderate water (Grade 2/3) and the need to provide opportunities for those coaching slalom within clubs to gain a regulated qualification.

Surf Kayak Safety and Rescue course

This course was launched on the 1st July. This course replaced the Advanced Surf Kayak Safety and Rescue programme. Modules include beach management, safety frameworks, self-rescues, deep water rescues and more.

The Surf Kayak Safety and Rescue course has replaced the Advanced Surf Kayak Safety and Rescue programme and is a 6 and a half hour programme that consists of 7 modules.

Find out more about this course!