Off Road Motivations offers half- and full-day courses led by professional instructors and based on up to three people sharing. The courses begin with an introduction to how 4-wheel drive systems work and the fundamental principles of off-road driving.

You then take the wheel of one of the centre's Land Rovers to give it a go yourself around the progressively harder off-road course. So if you know anyone with a Land Rover that has never taken it off-road, a training session here would make the ideal present.

Off Road Motivations, which has been running since 1992 and has 10 training sites in the UK, also offers nationally recognised Border Stage 1 and Border Stage 2 professional courses (www.prodrivertraining.co.uk).