Our site is fully accessible indoors and out so we offer a great base for groups with people who have special educational needs and disabilities. It’s a great venue for scouts and guides, Rotary and Round Tablers, sports clubs and hobbies clubs, Duke of Edinburgh groups, faith groups, wellbeing and holistic therapy groups and many more.

Do you offer community group activities through a uniformed group such as scouts or guides? Our carefully managed site is set up for a great club experience.

Fun and freedom are on the menu, with enclosed woodland and natural habitat areas, ponds, a bird hide, climbing trees, adventure ropes, and other natural resource areas. Offering three camp fire areas, cooking outdoors and night time activities are a must. Get close to our wildlife and meet our pets: sheep, ducks and chickens, tortoises, rabbits and guinea pigs.

Our venue is perfect for….

• Discovery trails
• Materials activities
• Pond dipping
• Bug hunting
• Orienteering
• Team activities
• Cooking and campfires
• Forest school activities
• Meeting the animals

If you are working on badges or skills and activities that make up awards, The Kingswood Trust will provide a great space and excellent resources to achieve them. Look at some of the badges you might work on here:

Beavers

• Campcraft activity badge – we’ve got lots of space for you to put up a tent and cook over a campfire
• My outdoors challenge – opportunities to have a sleepover or camp. Come and make a bird feeder or bug hotel, make something from natural materials and identify insects, animals and birds.

Cubs

• Backwoods cooking – light a fire and bake potatoes, cook soup or hot chocolate and toast marshmallows
• Naturalist – identify trees, minibeasts, flowers and pond dwellers. Have a go at natural art, make a bird feeder or insect house. Pick wild fruit and cook with it (seasonal activity).

Scouts

• Camper activity badge – Our woodlands are a great place to hold a camp. We have fire pits available for cooking.
• Naturalist activity badge – investigate wildlife and plants in our wooded areas, hedgerows an ponds.
• Forester activity badge – identify trees using a key. Learn to coppice, plant and manage trees and hedgerows and explore the seasonal change in our woods.

Rainbows

• We can offer creative ideas for Rainbow Roundabout themes. Contact us to discuss your ideas.

Brownies

• Wildlife explore – Use our binoculars and expert guides to identify birds, butterflies and wild mammals. Make a bird feeder or go pond dipping. Discover our trees, make leaf and bark rubbings and much more.
• Out and about – go for a walk following a simple map. Plan a scavenger hunt or take part in one of our orienteering games.

Guides

• Outdoor cook – make tasty treats and cook them over the campfires
• Camper – The Kingswood Trust is a great place to hold a camp. We have a fire pit available for cooking.

Membership of the Friends group will give you a discount on our events and community group activities published on our calendar of events, for 12 months running from January to December each year. You will be kept up-to-date with news, special activities and social events. There will be opportunities to learn new skills and knowledge and to enjoy the great outdoors. You will be supporting the on-going development of our charity and meeting others at the same time.

Did you know that community groups can book a fun filled stay at The Kingswood Trust? Our three bedroomed ORB Lodge deserves a special mention especially if you are thinking of booking The Kingswood Trust for a community group activity stay or a group day out. Nestled in our picturesque site, the ORB Lodge offers natural views and interesting features to discover.