Mendip Activity Centre Somerset

Mendip Activity Centre delivers a wide range of exciting outdoor activity and outdoor educational experiences and trips for school groups.

As well as school activity residentials, Mendip can deliver half day, full day or progressive outdoor education for:

• Enrichment Days
• Induction Days
• Post-Sats Rewards
• Team Building

Activities available at their sites near Bristol, Cheddar and Weston-super-Mare include:

• Target sports: archery, air rifle, axe throwing and frisbee golf
• Rock sports: rock climbing, abseiling and caving
• Water sports: paddle boarding, kayaking, canoeing, assault course and raft building
• Snow sports: skiing, snowboarding and tobogganing
• Land sports: team challenges, hill walking, orienteering, bushcraft, low ropes, crate stack.

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Having been established in 1987, Mendip Activity Centre has a vast experience in delivering quality outdoor education. Their site on the Mendip Hills National Landscape, is over 200 acres of beautiful countryside, rolling hills, ancient woodland and real limestone quarry.

This ensures that Mendip can deliver real adventurous experiences, helping pupils to get a sense of the unknown.

Mendip’s pioneering approach to outdoor instructor training means that their fully qualified instructors are some of the best in the industry. They have a detailed and caring approach to risk, enjoyment and education.

-Learning Outside the Classroom Badge

-AALA License

-AAIAC Adventure Mark

-DofE Approved Activity Provider

-Institute for Outdoor Learning member

-Member of Association of Heads of Outdoor Education Centres (AHOEC)

Mendip can help support learning outside the classroom and deliver curriculum-focused days for KS2 and KS3 students.

Their links with local ecologists ensures environmental education is a key element of all their delivery.

Curriculum focused days could include:

• Rivers: explore the water cycle and understand the challenges we face regarding water security from source to sea
• Rocks: explore the geology of the Mendip Hills above and below the ground, learning about its origin and history
• History: Mendip’s own cave-mine, Sandford Levy, has a rich history of mineral mining and then later use as a World War 2 station.
• Climate Change: understand practical and positive approaches to nature recovery and re-wilding and why these are important in the current climate crisis.

Mendip can work with groups of up to 200 students from ages 6+ right up to university students.

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Yes. Risk Assessments can be viewed at www.mendip.co.uk/download/ra

Instructor-led sessions

May to October:
Half Day: £40 per person
Full Day: £55 per person

November to April:
Half Day: £35 per person
Full Day: £45 per person

Teacher-led sessions

Frisbee Golf: £6 per person
Orienteering: £3 per person
Tobogganing: £160 for up to 24 students for 1 hour

A full kit list will be provided.

This can be downloaded at www.mendip.co.uk/download/kitlist

All delivery staff are qualified in Outdoor First Aid with Enhance DBS.

School groups will be allocated a space to leave bags and to eat lunch.

There is a café and small shop onsite. Teachers will be given free hot drink vouchers!

Toilets, showers and changing rooms are available.

Mendip Activity Centre believe that everyone should have the opportunity to challenge themselves and undertake adventurous activities With prior knowledge, many of the activities are suitable for those with additional needs.

If you think you’ll need additional support during your experience, Mendip will be happy to discuss these needs at the point of booking to ensure they can make adjustments to accommodate you and your group. This might include additional equipment and different levels of supervision.

Mendip are open year-round.

“Mendip is a well-oiled machine! The staff employed there are incredibly well trained and are not only experts in their particular activity fields but great when working with children. The activities on offer are varied, well run and offer a variety of challenges. They are incredibly inclusive – I have taken children with a range of needs from long-term medical to short-term bone breaks and each time, children have been able to access activities and succeed.” Ally, primary school teacher.

“Mendip Activity Centre is above the rest in terms of ease of booking and what the centre offers for the children as a place away from home/amazing staff/great facilities/great activity opportunities/yummy food – and plenty of it. The children love the whole experience and this is why we keep on coming back year after year.” Bev, primary school teacher.

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Mendip Activity Centre Residentials Somerset