Bewerley Park Centre For Outdoor Education
Site Resources
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:
- Students' common room equipped with pool tables, football machines, drinks' machine and a tuck shop
- Outdoor heated Swimming Pool (By prior arrangement)
- Assembly Hall with stage
- Dining Hall (with Dance floor)
- 5 Classrooms
- Camping area (By prior arrangement)
- Games field
- Car parking
- 10 17-seater minibuses (see notes below)
- Permanent orienteering courses
- Library and conference area
- Audio visual equipment - digital projection facilities in 2 locations suitable for laptop work & DVD's etc
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 MiDAS 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, MiDAS minibus certificate).
Please note that you will not be permitted to drive unless you have provided us with these documents.
NYCC has adopted the MiDAS scheme run by the Community Transport Association. For further information about MiDAS, please click the logo.
Centre Map
