Hindleap Warren Residential Visits School Trip

Try your hand at canoeing, stand-up paddle-boarding and kayaking, at a beautiful local reservoir. Our water sports sessions improve young people's communication and co-operation skills, and allow them to enjoy the natural environment.

All activities start with training from our qualified team of water-sport instructors, who then make sure young people are kept safe while they're on the water.

We use our own minibuses to take young people to and from the centre.

Hindleap's activities are delivered by our experienced, qualified and full-time instructor staff team. Most of these activities take place within 300 acres of private woodland and are accessible through paths and tracks.

Learn how to build a basic shelter to keep you warm and dry. Then have a go at lighting a fire using a traditional flint and steel, or a bow drill to create fire via friction. Then the challenge is keeping it going for long enough to toast marshmallows on!

Our bush craft sessions help children and young people learn practical outdoors skills, as well as how to work together in small team. Problem solving and being open to different ways of getting to a goal are crucial.

Our instructors constantly monitor children and young people when working with fire.

Whilst at Hindleap your young people will will be encouraged to be independent and make decisions for themselves, from what to wear that day to their participation in an activity. The more the children challenge themselves the more benefits they will leave Hindleap with.

Each year we have over 10,00 young people come to Hindleap and they always say their time at Hindleap has helped build their confidence, resilience and positive relationships with their classmates and teachers.

Revision weekends for GCSE & A-Level students; providing the space for teachers to facilitate curriculum learning and utilising our professional instructors to engage students in fun and exciting outdoor adventurous activities. These trips are proving hugely popular with schools booking weekends in March, April and May.

In small teams of 12 to 15, young people are introduced to a series of challenges. Each challenge is presented by the Hindleap instructor, with the rules and boundaries clearly explained.

The group must first discuss how they will approach the task, which highlights the importance of good communication and understanding differing opinions and perspectives. The group will then attempt the challenge utilising both physical and mental skills. The task will expose and develop varying team dynamics and leadership styles: who are the activists, theorists, reflectors and pragmatists within the group?

This activity is at the core of what Hindleap delivers and illustrates what good outdoor education should look like. It's fun, engaging, rewarding and developmental.

We offer a range of environmental sessions, each with its own style whether it be storytelling, or exploring your senses, we hope to inspire learning and a respect for nature and wildlife during your trip but also to take into everyday life.