Beaudesert Outdoor Residential Centre Staffordshire

Beaudesert Outdoor Activity Centre offers a choice of residential visits, from one to seven nights in either tented accommodation or lodge accommodation.  Our tented facilities use 8 man Vango dome tents with 2 rooms and a communal space in between, with 6 mattresses leaving plenty of room for kit. Teachers get a room each in a tent between 2.  There is also a large marquee with kitchen facilities and tables and benches and an outdoor fire pit.  The toilets and showers are a short 1 minute walk away.

Our lodges are rustic, practical,  clean and comfortable.  All have toilets for nighttime use and additional toilets and showers are a short walk away.  Each school is allocated an entire tented facility or lodge (s) to themselves you never share a building with another school. http://www.beaudesert.org/accommodation/indoor-accomodation

Take a look at our accommodation floorplans and photos here.

Our activities include all the usual outdoor centre high ropes and target sports and additionally we have coracling (see our youtube channel) and a via ferrata. Our Via Ferrata is a metalwork path around our quarry with a number of exciting elements including the budgie swings, the postmans walk and the traverse finishing with a fantastic Burma bridge to the top.

Take a tour round our activities here http://www.beaudesert.org/activities

Our cafeteria serves great home cooked food. Take a look at our menu here. http://www.beaudesert.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Menu-2023-large.pdf

We also offer a wide range of day visits including end of term fun or reward days, team building days and some amazing induction days in September and October suitable for whole year groups.

You can also come and run your own programme, with 120 acres to explore we offer a group day visitor fee, allowing you the opportunity to create your own Learning Outside the Classroom adventure.

We are also a great location for D of E overnight camps, with Cannock Chase next door for your expedition.

Beaudesert literally “meaning beautiful place” Beaudesert Outdoor Activity Centre is located on the edge of Cannock Chase, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, and offers a truly unique experience for schools and youth groups.

Our 120 acres of mixed woodland and parkland offer fantastic opportunities to learn and experience the outdoors.

Your adventure starts when you make contact with us. Our friendly Customer Experience Team will talk you through the options and provide you with a quotation. You are more than welcome to come and look around the centre to see the facilities for yourself.

Our staff genuinely enjoy their jobs and as a non-profit making charity our aim is to ensure every child makes some fantastic memories. Alongside this we aim to make the visit as simple as possible for the organising staff.

• LOtC
• Adventuremark
• BAPA
• AALA

• In lodge accommodation 156 beds
• Lodges sleep, The Den 41 beds, Alpine Barn 40 beds, The Lodge 24 beds, Owls Nest 24 beds, Chantrey House 22 beds, Dorothy Dean 3 beds and Woodland chalet 2 beds.
• In tented accommodation up to 300 beds
• Day visits up to 350 per day
• Catering up to 1000 people
• Own tents, self catered up to 2000 people

Groups are welcome to take photographs and video.

All of our risk assessments are audited during our AALA, LOtC, Adventuremark and BAPA inspections and we provide individual copies on request.

Example cost for 2023

• A 4 night residential is £325 per child
• An adventure day visit is £36 per child
• Adults come free

We ask visiting groups to provide their own first aider, however all of our activity and reception staff are trained first aiders and first aid kits are available.

• Shop open daily
• Outdoor shelters or marquees to eat lunch in.
• Toilets and showers
• Disabled toilets and showers
• Tea and coffee on sale in the shop
• WIFI £2 per device per stay, available in most buildings
• Outdoor Classrooms available to use

We are able to offer some accessible toilets, and some accessible activities.

Reception is open 7 days a week 9am to 5pm with a ½ hour break at lunch. We close for Christmas for 2 weeks otherwise we are open all year round.

Nearby attractions:

Drayton Manor, Alton Towers, Pier52 water sports at Chasewater centre, The National Arboretum, Cannock Chase cycle hire, Cannock Chase Go Ape, Castle Ring iron age fort, Tamworth Snowdome, Stoke Waterpark, Lichfield cathedral.

As a charity and not for profit organization our goal is to ensure every child has great opportunities to experience the outdoors and push themselves in adventure and make some amazing memories. We also like to make the experience as comfortable, fun, relaxing and simple as possible for the teachers.

Please contact our reception sales team on 01543 682278 email info@beaudesert.org.uk