Ufton Court Residential Centre Berkshire

Ufton Court provides a wide range of curriculum-linked history trips and outdoor learning programmes for schools, voluntary organisations and community groups.

Through our charity, The Ufton Court Educational Trust, we subsidise school day and residential trips for children from deprived areas. We give children a safe space to learn about themselves and provide the freedom to flourish, helping them grow up more confident, curious and capable.

Ufton Court Residential Centre Berkshire
Accommodation South East
Fully catered trips South East

Schools describe us as their “Home from Home”, often booking several years in advance. We provide an immersive and personal approach, and pride ourselves on maintaining a site beyond expectations. All our staff are carefully selected and live Ufton’s values as their own, and work as one team for the same goal.

Our history topics are truly immersive, with our staff in costumes and a themed banquet where your children will be able to dress up and feel as though they’re living in the era they have learned about on their stay. We provide high quality, accredited experiential educational visits.

Outside areas for play during free time, ancient woodland, archery, low ropes, fire circles, challenge wall, farm, numerous activities led by our Education Team.

Stanford Award – Quality Award for Heritage Learning, LOtC Quality Badge, 5 Star Food Hygiene Rating.

Residential: We can accommodate smaller groups of 15 – 36 children (minimum charges may apply) and larger group sizes of around 100 children.

Age Range: We cater from EYFS up to Year 8. Our main focus is KS1 and KS2 with curriculum-linked History and Outdoor Learning programmes.

Tudor Manor House: sleeps up to 67 children and 10 adults in different size rooms, ranging from 3 beds to 14 beds per room. There are shared bathroom facilities throughout the house and some bedrooms have wash basins in them.

Woodland Cabins: sleep up to 38 children across four cabins (three cabins with 5 bunk beds each, one cabin with 4 beds and 2 bunk beds), and 6 adults in a designated teachers’ cabin (one room with 2 bunk beds and one room with 1 bunk bed). Each cabin has their own bathroom facilities as well as a separate shower cabin.

Longhouse: sleeps up to 28 children in a communal mixed gender sleeping area. There are washing facilities but no shower facilities.

Our risk assessments for the activities we provide are available on our website: www.uftoncourt.org.uk/accreditation-risk-assessments.

Teachers are welcome to visit prior to booking with us, or in advance of an upcoming booking to familiarise themselves with our site, conduct their own risk assessments, and ask any questions.

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Our bookings and enquiries team can be reached on email enquiries@ufton.org.uk or call us on 0118 9832 099. Or get started by filling out our online enquiry form on our website: https://www.uftoncourt.org.uk/enquire-now.

Residential: Our prices are all inclusive and dependent on the month of your visit.

Our prices are per child and include accommodation, full catering, and activities.

Discounts: We occasionally run offers throughout the year. Our charity offers 50% subsidies for schools who meet our specified criteria including being at 30% free school meals or higher.

Supervising Adults: For residential visits, accompanying adults are included in the price up to a ratio of 1:8 children. Different Groups: Our pricing is the same for each type of school, whether you’re a primary or secondary school. We have separate private hire costs and also support holiday provision groups.

Our staff are first aid trained and have access to first aid kits on site. We always recommend that each visiting school has their own designated and qualified first aider.

Visiting schools would be allocated a designated indoor space for their visit, with access to toilets and free guest WiFi for adults. Children would have access to outdoor playing and social areas.

We have a member of staff on call 24/7 with these groups provided with a mobile phone to contact our on-call team member, if required. We do not currently have a souvenir shop or similar, so no pocket money would be required.

Residential visits are fully catered in house. We have a 5 Star Food Hygiene Rating and are experienced in catering for a variety of dietary and allergy requirements.

We are a nut free site as standard. We provide weighing scales for any food that needs to be weighed (e.g. for medical need) and can provide a fridge for use (e.g. for medication).

Our Education Staff are trauma informed and experienced in working with a variety of SEND needs.

We are located on an historic outdoor site with listed building status, therefore we cannot offer 100% accessibility guarantee.

We have a downstairs bedroom and accessible bathroom and shower facilities in our Manor House, as well as an accessible cabin with accessible bathroom and shower facilities as part of our Woodland Cabins. We have a disabled access toilet in our outdoor toilet block.

Most of our spaces are wheelchair accessible, however activities would take place around site where the terrain could be challenging. We do have an off-road wheelchair that can be used for the length of your stay. We also have two deaf guards available for use for hearing impaired persons staying overnight. We aim to ensure every child and visiting person can access our site and activities, so schools are encouraged to contact us with specific concerns so that we can look to accommodate them.

We are open for school visits September to July term time. Our team works throughout the year, including during school holidays, to support schools and visitors with their bookings and enquiries. Standard office hours are 8:30am – 5pm Mon-Fri not including bank holidays. We close between Christmas and New Year.

“Ufton truly feels like a home away from home. The entire team, not just the educators, but everyone from catering and housekeeping to maintenance and the office staff, were incredibly friendly, polite, and helpful. We were so impressed with the level of care and professionalism across the board.” – Headteacher, residential visit. 

“The staff were fantastic with our children and kept them engaged for the whole day. They were quick to recognise which children might need more support and which ones needed extra input.” – Teacher, day visit.

We’re based in a rural location in the South West, but in close proximity to the M4 and only an about 1.5 hours from West London.