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Wales

Open Door Adventure, Dolben Hall, Bont Newydd, St. Asaph, Denbighshire, North Wales, LL17 OHN

MONTHS OPEN

January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December

DAYS OPEN

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday

AGE GROUPS SERVED

PreSchool, 5 to 7 years, 8 to 10 years, 11 to 13 years, 14 to 16 years, College, University

Open Door Adventure provides outdoor residential school trips in a stunning location in North Wales in the Cefn Valley. Students will have the chance to take part in 20 different outdoor activities whilst being surrounded by their closest classmates.

What we offer on a school trip

At Open Door Adventure, the outdoors is the fantastic, wide open, beautiful classroom. We believe all young people deserve the opportunity to develop life skills in this setting. We provide school groups with programmes that enable the students to find out who they are, celebrate their strengths, push their boundaries to face their weaknesses and most of all have such memorable fun learning that they are on the path to realising their true potential.

We provide pupils with activities that allow them to learn experientially. We provide immersing and engaging programmes which to allow them the room to discover their own individual abilities and work together as teams

Open Door Adventure offers students the chance to:

Plan – how they are going to solve challenges by working together
Decide – on what is the best way to solve challenges
Collaborate – working with peers and establishing individual roles within a team setting
Build – confidence in themselves as they stretch their boundaries and achieve things they didn’t think they could do
Develop – life skills, through participation and accomplishment

What makes us a great choice for education?

Accommodation is dormitory style with comfy and spotless single and bunk beds; with teacher rooms close to student accommodation.

Dolben Hall - Our accommodation is Dolben Hall, a 10-bedroomed former mansion house. The bedrooms are large spacious and comfortable with twin rooms, 4 person rooms, 5/6 person rooms with single beds and two dorms with 6 & 8 person bunks. There are five bathrooms with adequate shower, bath facilities.
Tent Village – we now have a Bell Tent Village! 12 Bell Tents measuring 5 x 5metres with 4 camp-beds per tent, fully carpeted, electrics (lighting, heating, phone charging). Full access to toileting/showering facilities.

Catering:

Unlike most outdoor centres, we have gone for quality and space and a home from home atmosphere, with excellent food from our resident chef all good wholesome home-made food, he like all of us he has pride in his vocation. Any special dietary requirements can be accommodated.

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What is typically included on our school trips?

Our on-site forest woodland provides high/low rope course with an aerial runway (Jacob’s Ladder & Leap of Faith), a Bushcraft/Survival Skills area, Assault Course, Archery, Paintball Target Shoot, Team Building & Problem Solving Games
Our on-site River Elwy enables us to offer Kayaking, Canoeing, Raft-Building and White-Water rafting. We also have our own Water Sports Centre at Llyn Brenig which is a 20 minutes’ drive from our Centre
Our on-site our own Limestone Rockface and Cave offers challenging climbing techniques – Abseiling and Learning Scrambling Skills and Safety at on-site mine

Our activities are primarily on site but in addition to all the above, Open Door Adventure can offer "off site" activities as follows:

Hillwalking
Mountaineering
Gorge Walking
White Water Rafting
Coasteering
Water Sports Centre - Llyn Brenig 20 minutes away

A brief overview of how we work with Key Stage aims:

- KS1 residential and day visits are designed with the pace and content to introduce younger children to new experiences.

- KS2 we progressively introduce children to appropriate challenge, always working closely with visiting staff to provide exciting challenges with great support.

- Beyond KS2 we deliver learning to complement the curriculum.

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We work with a lot of Youth Groups and Educational Establishments - including Princes' Trust and National Citizens Service and Duke of Edinburgh (DoE) so we know budgets are tight – and we aim to work with you to provide our services on budget but also pride ourselves on delivering the best quality service. We want you to not just come once, but come back again … just like our existing customers do.

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