Wild Adventure Club

A day in the woods with bush-craft & campfire

Mentored by

WILDPLAY at Herefordshire Wildlife Trust

Organisation links

Queenswood Country Park & Arboretum, Leominster

Ages: 8 - 12 years

Free HAF ticket Free

Next date: None - Register your interest

Funded by Herefordshire Council

Universal provision with SEND support

Wild Adventure Club block mentored by WILDPLAY at Herefordshire Wildlife Trust

When you arrive

Meet outside the visitors centre please. We play and explore, craft, build, prepare healthy food to cook on the fire. Learn to light fires, use tools to create all sorts of creative treasures of your own design. Make a den and eat lunch in it if that appeals, relax in the hammock, cut wood from the forest to work on with knives. enjoy popcorn or marshmallows that you have cooked over the fire. Our groups of children work on mutual respect for each other and the environment. The sessions are lead by the children and supported by the leaders who provide resources, knowledge, expertise and a sense of humour. Prompts and ideas will be freely given to anyone short on ideas.

About your mentor

WILDPLAY at Herefordshire Wildlife Trust

Allowing our children time and freedom

Our WildPlay Rangers feel passionately that children need the opportunity for joyful and playful experiences outdoors. Chances to manage and take their own risks, build their confidence and make judgements independently. These early connections with nature supports all areas of development as well as health and wellbeing, embedding skills they will use for the rest of their lives. Play is fundamental to a child’s emotional, physical and cognitive development. Allowing our children time and freedom to play in nature, nurtures them into becoming adults who love and care for the natural world around them. Children’s opportunities to play and explore in nature have been reduced through a variety of physical and social factors, which include poor access to spaces for outdoor play as well as parents and carers concerns for their children’s safety . Compared to their grandparents generation children are 62% less like to play outside with much of their free time spent interacting on digital platforms or in organised clubs. JOIN IN!

What we'll do

We will spend the day outside in the woodland. We will build dens, put up the hammock and use tools like whittling knives to create something new or useful We have a mud kitchen and plenty of craft ideas We will prepare and cook lunch and snacks over the campfire For anyone interested in Wildlife and the natural environment - we will support and deepen that connection.

Learning aim

Aim 1

To develop independent learning skills To build resilience and problem solving To learn new tool skills To learn to prepare and cook food To develop cooperation through play

what to bring

Suitable weatherproof warm clothes for being outdoors. Sturdy footwear and long sleeves and trousers. We have a few spares if needed. A water bottle for refilling through the day.

Pricing information

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Ticket nameFree HAF ticket

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Where we'll be

Queenswood Country Park & Arboretum, Dinmore, Leominster, Herefordshire, HR60PY

WHAT’S PROVIDED

Drinks

Snacks

Meals

Equipment

Safety

Enhanced DBS

Basic DBS

Risk Assessment

Public Liability Insurance

Safeguarding Training

First Aid Training

First Aid Kit

Please note

Please note, it is the responsibility of the booker to satisfy themselves about the adequacy of the safety measures. This platform is merely an introducer and does not verify the items listed here.

Cancellation Policy

Free bookings do not require refunds but as places are limited, please cancel if you cannot attend so that your place can be offered to someone else.

My experience consists of a leisure activity, on a specific date(s), and therefore the 14-day ‘cooling off period’ under the Consumer Contracts Regulations 2013 does not apply.

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