Residential Trip School Workshop Residentials South West Devon
We are a sole occupancy activity centre ' our goal is to provide an outdoor education experience that will be the highlight of any educational or youth programme, delivered by a dedicated and friendly team of staff.At Encompass Training, we are passionate about the value of authentic outdoor education. We offer a wide range of activities, including high ropes, tree abseiling, climbing wall, archery, orienteering, and low ropes on-site. Making full use of the stunning landscape around us, we provide a variety of watersports, from SUP, canoeing, and kayaking at our amazing lake, to coasteering and gorge scrambling. Alternatively, why not try abseiling, climbing, or scrambling on Dartmoor or Bodmin Moor?
Each of our outdoor activity programmes is flexible and can be tailored to meet your specific needs. We offer courses covering specific curriculum areas, team development, skills courses, the Duke of Edinburgh Award, and more. Our courses can be both residential and day courses. We also have our own fleet of minibuses.
Where we travel to
We can visit your school in: South West
What activities are available during educational visits in 2026 & 2027?
We offer a wide range of outdoor activities that are hosted both on and off site across Devon. Onsite activities include Climbing Wall, Bush Craft, Orienteering, Team Building, and Archery. Popular offsite activities include Coasteering, Canoeing, Rock Climbing and Gorge Walking. There is also a range of special activities that can be arranged including Caving, Mountain Biking and Quad Biking.
Which curriculum topics do we cater for?
Watersports Workshop
SUP Stand Up Paddleboarding Kayaking Canoeing Raft Building
In partnership with the Devon Wildlife Trust, we have exclusive access to one of the best lakes in the South West. We offer a variety of activities, including sit-on-top kayaking, canoeing, raft building, paddle boarding, and more. With our team of experienced instructors, your group will enjoy far more than just an excellent experience. We are skilled in working with nervous or low water-confidence participants, ensuring that by the end of the day, no one wants to leave the lake. These activities can be offered as part of a residential programme or for local schools as a day activity. For day groups we can collect from school in our minibuses.
Physical Geography
>Accommodation Only
>Physical Education
>Outdoor Learning
What size groups do we cater for?
The capacity is approximately 90 guests
We cater for all ages ranging from school years 4,5 and 6 up to university groups and even corporate customers, due to the flexibility of our outdoor programmes and staff.
We cater for all ages ranging from school years 4,5 and 6 up to university groups and even corporate customers, due to the flexibility of our outdoor programmes and staff.
On-site classroom facilities?
yes We do have the ability to provide a classroom-like environment. You can tell us your group size and any specific requirements in the form below.
Is there first aid on site?
All staff are first aid trained.
Groups with Special Educational Needs & Disabilities (SEND)
With our expenicenced staff team, working with your staff team, we are very used to running successful courses for a complete range of SEN needs. As we are a small, sole occupancy centre we can focus on the needs of your students, making tweeks to the programme for example to help make it more accessable to your students
Disabled wet room and ground floor bedroom with ramps.
Teacher Checklist
Get Risk Assessments
Inspection Visits Free Places for Teachers Resource Packs
LOtC Quality Badge
AALA Licence
Institute of Outdoor Learning
British Activity Providers Association
Adventure Mark
Duke of Edinburgh Award
Anything else?
- We offer groups sole use.
- All staff are First aiders.
- Institute for Outdoor Learning
- AALA Licence
- BAPA inspected
-Learning Outside the Classroom quality badge
-Adventure Mark approval
- All staff are First aiders.
- Institute for Outdoor Learning
- AALA Licence
- BAPA inspected
-Learning Outside the Classroom quality badge
-Adventure Mark approval
Who are Encompass Training?
Encompass Training aims to offers a very special residential experience. We offer a warm, friendly and experienced staff team with only one group staying here at a time regardless of size. Surrounded my amazing countryside and coastline we are able to offer a wide range of real, adventurous, challenging and fun outdoor activities.
We have an amazing lake in the heart of a huge nature reserve where we can offer a broad range of watersports. With the centre overlooking Dartmoor, we offer climbing, scrambling, abseiling and gorge scrambling. Our nearby coastline at Hartland makes a stunning backdrop to a trip coasteering.
On-site we have a range of exellent, team orientated activities such as crate stack, jacobs ladder, a tree abseil, climbing wall, archery, team tasks, orienteering, low ropes etc.
With sole occupancy, experienced staff and with our own minibuses our programmes at taylor made for your group.
All programmes are fully catered, offering a varied menu, with all dietary requirements catered for. We take groups from 6 to 90 plus in size.
Encompass staff on-site throughout programmes, keypad locks on doors if required and nobody else around for miles!
Camping provided for Duke of Edinburgh's Award expeditions or groups wishing for an under canvas experience.
We hold a AALS licence, Learning Outside the Classroom quality badge, Adventure Mark approval and BAPA inspected.
Every enquiry gives you a chance to win trips and workshops for your school - We are giving away a free trip for every week of the Autumn term!
Okehampton Devon EX20 3DN
