Bewerley Park Centre For Outdoor Education
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Accommodation is in attractive, single-storey, centrally heated bungalows giving comfortable living in dormitories for a total of 120 students (both boys and girls) together with ample toilet, washing and shower facilities and drying rooms.

Visiting staff are accommodated in single or double rooms adjoining the student dormitories. All are comfortably furnished with duvet quilts, beds and linen, wardrobes, carpets, shaving points, kettles and hairdryers.

Adult courses are accommodated in a new unit (built 2005) consisting of 5 units, each for a maximum of 4 people, each unit having en-suite facilities

Other facilities include:

The Bewerley Park Outdoor heated Swimming Pool

Students' common room equipped with pool tables, football machines, drinks' machine and a tuck shop
High and Low Ropes Courses
Zipwire
Outdoor heated Swimming Pool
Assembly Hall with stage
Dining Hall (with Dance floor)
5 Classrooms
Camping area
Games field
Car parking
10 17-seater minibuses
Surgery and first aid facilities
Permanent orienteering courses
Library and conference area
Audio visual aid equipment
A full range of clothing and equipment is maintained to a high standard to equip all age-ranges on activities.

Evening Activities

Orienteering - dusk or dark in centre grounds, light evenings in Fishpond Wood
Blind Rope
Games - indoor or outdoor
Night Walks
Concert
Dancing
Diary/scrap book - classroom available
Disco/Social - music in common room; music/lights in dining room
Tuck Shop
Camping in centre grounds
Swimming
Camp fire/camp cooking

For an extra charge : Evening visits can be organised to:

Stump Cross Caverns
Pateley Bridge Museum
Nidderdale Swimming Pool

Transport

The Centre has 10 minibuses available with enough seating for 17 people (including the driver) and with 3-point seat belts throughout.

The County requirement for drivers is that they have 4 years driving experience, D1 entitlement on a clean driving licence (no points, even for speeding) and have passed a nationally recognised minibus driving test before driving with children.

Staff intending to drive must produce original documentation at the start of their visit for us to photocopy and keep on file (paper and plastic driving licence, minibus certificate).