Capstone Inspections have a highly qualified, experienced and personable team who are committed and passionate about the ropes course industry.

Paul Capper Director

Inaugural & Annual Inspector

Paul is the Director of Capstone Inspections Ltd and is an Inaugural and Annual inspector. He represents the UK on the European Standardisation Committee and assisted in writing the EN: 15567 (Part 1 & 2) and the UK Ropes Course Guide.

Paul has worked in the ropes course industry since 1994 as a trainer, constructor and inspector and is one of Europe's leading ropes course inspectors.

With over 24 years’ experience of building, operating, training, maintaining and inspecting ropes course, he is highly qualified as an accredited wire rope examiner, qualified tree surgeon, PPE inspector and has an industrial ropes access qualification, pole inspector, scaffold inspector, BH Sala Safety Systems Inspector, ISC ALF Maintenance and visual welding inspector.

He also has a wealth of experience within outdoor experiential learning environment and is a qualified Trainer for traditional ropes courses and adventure parks and holds various NGBs within the sports, leisure and outdoor industry.

Scott Troughton
Annual Inspector

Scott Troughton is one of Capstone's Type C Inspectors.

He is based in the Lake District UK and carries out inspections all over the UK and Europe.

Scott has been working in the ropes course industry for over 18 years and has a wealth of experience and qualifications in the industry.

In addition to being a fully qualified inspector, Scott also works within the outdoor industry in the Lake District and is a senior instructor within an outdoor management training centre for corporate and youth work.

He is a fully qualified MIA Mountain Instructor and spends lots of time out on the mountains climbing, walking and mountaineering.

He is a qualified wire inspector, pole inspector, adventure activities height access and rescue at height.

Danny Griffith
Annual Inspector

Danny has been actively involved in the outdoors since a young age and has been working full time as a freelance instructor since 2000. He has a wealth of experience within the ropes course industry and has been constructing, maintaining and inspecting ropes courses since 2007.

As well as experience, he is a TYPE C Inspector, qualified in; ERCA Wire Rope, ERCA Wooden Pole, qualified PPE Inspector and certified to work at height on artificial structures and trees.

When he is not inspecting ropes courses, he works within the outdoor industry in North Wales, running his own climbing and mountaineering company called
Dannywg.com Mountaineering & Climbing Instructor so has a broad insight into the outdoor industry.

Danny is a qualified MCI (Mountaineering and Climbing Instructor), MLW (Mountain Leader Winter) and MIAS L3 (Mountain bike Instructor Award Scheme Level 3), DCA (Development Coach Award) as well as holding many other qualifications and is an approved provider for delivering Mountain Training qualifications, so plays a pivotal role in training and assessing the next generation of climbing coaches and instructors.

In his personal time Danny loves to climb, living in North Wales he is surrounded by world class climbing, but regularly takes month long climbing trips to Europe and further afield.”

Ruth Spurling
Business & Marketing Co-ordinator

Ruth works alongside all team members and oversees the marketing & communications, partnerships, systems and project management at Capstone Inspections.

Helen Hoppe
Operations
Co-ordinator

Helen deals with the pre-operational inspection process, client management and is the co-ordinator for inspection logistics with UK and international inspections.

Louise March
Inspection Compliance Co-ordinator

Louise works closely with all inspectors and manages the post inspection process for reporting inspections, assessing documentation, issuing certification, and compliance checks for all clients.