This year's annual conference and AGM promises to be the best year yet!

Conference Workshops and Speakers

The ABC serves to promote the professionalism, growth and health of the indoor climbing industry, our list of workshops and speakers will cover these. Speakers include Marco Scolaris, president of the IFSC, Tom Randall, Lisa O'Keefe, Sport England and Hannes Huch from the world famous Café Kraft. The event takes place on the 27th and 28th of June at the Edge in the University of Sheffield.

We also have workshops happening in the Entre-Pries Exhibitor hall, where the team from Lattice and Wideboyz will be carrying out some demonstrations and testing.

For further details on the workshops and speakers and to book your sessions please visit our website.

Exhibitors and Sponsors

This year's line up of exhibitors and sponsors has reached a whole new level, with over 40 brands and businesses being represented over the two days, everything related to indoor climbing will be covered. There will also be exclusive deals for delegates from discounted hardware to a free volume, for further details on who will be exhibiting please see the floorplan.

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Evening Entertainment - Sponsored by Entre-Prises

Thursday - We are very excited to have one half of the Wideboyz, Pete Whittaker, sharing his stories, from small gritstone adventures to soloing the big walls of Yosemite. Episodes of toilets, thirst, falls and failures are all part of the game when trying to succeed on big granite cliffs on your own!

Our kind friends at Entre-Prises will be putting on a FREE BBQ and BEER for delegates during Thursday evening of the conference. So grab yourself a burger and beer to sit down and listen to stories from Pete.

About the ABC:

The Association of British Climbing Walls (ABC) was established in 1994 to promote safe management practices in climbing walls. Over the past 20 years the Association has developed into what it does today:

THE ABC PROMOTES THE PROFESSIONALISM, HEALTH AND GROWTH OF INDOOR CLIMBING.

The ABC exists to serve its members and is a company limited by guarantee with no share capital: any surplus is reinvested into activities that support members. We work closely with sector partners to support and develop one of the fastest growing sports in the UK; indoor climbing is growing at 15-20% growth per annum and is a new Olympic Sport for 2020

THE ABC REPRESENTS 70% OF THE LARGER AND MEDIUM-SIZED CLIMBING AND BOULDERING WALLS IN THE UK.

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