Summer 2017 Update

Since our last post we've welcomed many more groups of young people to the Centre

 We now have a new sign up in the backyard and it is proving popular as a good place to take a photo of the whole group underneath it. The wild flower roof above is at it's best at the moment!

Also looking good is the wild flower meadow roof on the Garden Room across the road.

The garden itself has had some work done including a new BBQ area and 'Altar' fire pit, that are being regularly enjoyed by groups.

The new fire was used at a recent wedding reception held here

 

Behind the wedding party you can just make out a new willow hedge and archway in the photo below

we have added a few new videos to our You Tube Channel like the one above showing a group doing a stream study

We have also added our first video tour of part of the Centre. The one above showing the lounge, visiting staff kitchen and tuck shop. We hope to add further orientation videos over time.

 

DFSC Early Winter Update

Coracle Building & Relay Racing is a new activity we introduced this year, but it has certainly now got too cold for what you will see in the following 2 minute video!:

 

The lawn mowers are now locked away for the Winter and we've got the Christmas decorations up:

We are presently in the process of changing all of the Main Centre lights to LEDs to save energy. We are also installing PIR sensors in many areas so that they switch on and off automatically.

The Garden Room now has some new disco lights for those last evening discos and karaoke/talent shows. Also great for our outside groups booking parties.

At this time of year the garden lights have also been useful when finishing afternoon sessions as it gets dark

Some of them act as feature lighting that can change colour, like the ones illuminating our bamboo

The Roundhouse has also had it's Christmas makeover with fairy lights to brighten it up inside and out

Meanwhile the Common Room now has 2 new table football machines and a new air hockey machine. All 3 are durable arcade quality machines

The Air Hockey is proving particularly popular with students when they have a few spare minutes

We have more purchases planned for the Common Room/Games Room. Watch this space...

Early Autumn 2015 Update

We were so busy over the summer that we didn't manage to do a Blog Update! So here's an update of some of the things that have been happening.

Our new archery range has proved to be a great success and we hope more of our existing schools will add this activity to their programme.

This summer saw us running a lot more Bushcraft sessions which were also very well received. 

Groups started fires using flint/steel and charcloth and then cooked dampers (made to Jane's secret recipe) on the fire.

 

Click on the short video below to see how tasty they were!

 

Here's another fun little video of one of our Summer groups mountain biking. You can tell that Ian, the Centre Manager got a new video camera for Christmas!

We have also hosted several parties over the weekends in the Summer. The Garden Room and it's deck makes an excellent venue for such occasions. We have even hosted a wedding reception! Pictures to hopefully follow in a later Blog post.

 

A couple of groups have also camped on the new lawn as part of a party weekend.

One group even hired in a hot tub that we sited for them!

Of course the tunnels were also hired

 and we also ran a High Challenge session for them

 

You know where to book you next big party weekend!