Beaumanor Activities

Beaumanor Activities is an Outdoor Education Centre like no other. Operating from a majestic Victorian Manor House in the Leicestershire countryside, we offer activities for everyone. We work with schools both locally, around Leicestershire, and nationally offering both day visits and residential stays.

Programmes have been created to link in with many stages of the National Curriculum from Early years foundation stage to Key stage 3 and beyond. We have residential accommodation for up to 120 guest in buildings and additional 60-80 in a tented village during the summer.

There are two sides to our centre. There is the side of more traditional outdoor adventurous activities that many may be familiar with and then we have the side we call 'explorations'.

Outdoor adventurous activities: We are fortunate to have some amazing resources onsite and in the local area. Activities we deliver on this side include:

1. Climbing and abseiling - this is delivered over three climbing walls on site. We also have a mobile climbing was so can come to you if you cannot get to us
2. High Ropes and 150 metre zip wire, which includes challenges such as aerial trekking, vertical challenge, leap of faith and crate staking
3. Canoeing and kayaking - we are ideally placed near the River Soar and Grand Union Canal, giving us access to a lovely 3 mile paddling loop following the canal and back waters. An alternative to this would be on a local enclosed body of water in Watermead County Park
4. Archery - we have two ranges - one outdoors and one indoors
5. Survival sessions in our woodlands
6. Bridge building activities across our stream
7. Land buggies - a land based version of raft building on the main field without the risk of getting wet
8. Team building and team challenges
9. Orienteering - on and off site courses and training available
10. Explorations - we look into the history of the buildings at the site and the stories of the local area.

We have themed activity days for many topics in the national curriculum. We pride ourselves on delivering high quality hands on education out of the classroom. As a visitor you are transported through time and our instructing team working with will you lead you through the day as an interesting character from your chosen programme.

Topics covered are:

1. Iron Age Celts
2. Vikings
3. Robin Hood
4. Pirates
5. Victorians
6. World War II
7. Nature and environment
8. Gruffalo

The team delivering all of the amazing programmes at Beaumanor, both outdoor and explorations, as so passionate about what they do and have many many years experience of doing so.

In our staff team we have over 400 years experience of working in education across schools and the outdoor industry. if you choose to come to Beaumanor you will be in safe hands. For more information please contact us and we can help to put your programme together.