Buzz Active Bushy Wood

Buzz Active School Trips

Why book 'Buzz Active Bushy Wood' with Buzz Active for Residential School Trips and Educational Visits?

Choose your next residential adventure with Buzz Active!
Residential trips comprising of land and water based activities at three unique sites around East Sussex.
Bushy Wood- camp or stay in bunk houses. Onsite facilities include showers, catering facilities, shop, fire sites, Archery, climbing, air rifles, orienteering short course, team building challenges, pioneering and more.
Eastbourne- visit this site for a day of sailing and windsurfing activity on princes park lake
Cuckmere - visit this site for a day of paddle sport, including kayaking, stand up paddle boarding (SUP), raft building and Giant SUP’s. Orienteering and shelter building in Friston Forest.
Choose a 1, 2, 3 or 4 night package and build the activity package that meets your needs.
-All transport between activity sites*
-All activity equipment provided
-Evening activities
-Catering onsite at Bushy wood with choice of menu’s
-Choose from whole or half days at our Eastbourne and Cuckmere site as well as all the land based activities on offer at the Bushy wood site.
-Stay under canvas for an authentic camping residential experience.

Teacher Checklist

Risk Assessments
Inspection Visits
Free Places for Teachers
Resource Packs
AALA Licence
Institute of Outdoor Learning
RYA Centre
BCU Centre

Which Curriculum Subjects do you cater for?

We offer a great location to explore all aspects of forest School, and bushcraft/ fire craft. With an abundance of material for backwoods skills and bushcraft creativity. Bushy Wood has all you need to come along and either run your own activities, or engage with one of our team to take you through introductory sessions in fire lighting and camp craft.

Curriculum topics available: Raft Building, Canoeing, Kayaking, Sailing, Windsurfing, Kata Kanuing.

We have two fantastic locations a short bus ride away, where you can to learn to sail, windsurf at our Eastbourne seafront sail sport center, or paddle a kayak or Stand up paddle board at our Cuckmere Valley paddlesport centre.
Our Eastbourne site is on the seafront in Eastbourne and we have a full range of sailing and windsurfing equipment to take you from beginner to winner on the sea or on our sheltered boating lake.
At our beautiful River Cuckmere location, we have a 2.5 kilometre stretch of the old course of the Cuckmere river known as the meanders, which is safe and non tidal oxbow lake to explore and develop paddling skills and abilities with our range of kayaks, sit on tops, open canoes, stand up paddle boards giant paddle boards and katakanu's.

Curriculum topics available: Kayaking, Sailing, Canoeing, Climbing Outdoor, Orienteering, Archery, High Ropes, Team Building.

Our land-based activities delivered from this popular venue includes climbing, archery, air rifles, high ropes, bush craft, fire lighting, themed days and more.

Curriculum topics available: Kayaking, Sailing, Canoeing.

We can support students wishing to complete GCSE sailing, windsurfingand paddle sport assessments, as well as D of E modules to support Bronze and Silver awards. Please give us your requirements and we can explain what we can offer.

What size groups do you cater for?

We can accommodate groups of all sizes from 6 to 60 for residential and 150 for day visits at Bushy Wood, 6 - 40 at our eastbourne site and 6 -60 at our Cuckmere site. Please contact us for activities plans and ideas.

Do you offer on-site classroom facilities?

We have classroom facilities at all sites.

Is there first aid on site?

All staff are first aid qualified.

Do you offer access for visitors with disabilities?

We have DDS compliant changing facilities and are open to discussion with group leader and participants for the range of activities we offer. Some of our activities are limited for disability users due to the nature of the equipment. However please do contact us to find out what we can do for your group.

Do you cater for visitors with Special Educational Needs (SEN)?

Yes. We certainly can. Please use the form below to let us know your group's specific SEN requirements and we will get back to you with more information on how we can tailor our learning experience for your children.

Who are Buzz Active?

We offer day and residential activities from our Bushy Wood location, catering for group sizes from 6 to 150 for all day activities, or short visits for group activities such as climbing, archery, rifles, bush craft, crate stacking, pioneering, shelter building, orienteering on site. For residential stays we can cater for up to 60 and you can base yourself from Bushy Wood and enjoy our two water sport locations just 15 minutes down the road!