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Welcome to venturewood

We deliver supportive and impactful outdoor education experiences that help participants build confidence, resilience and essential life skills.

Our sessions are carefully designed to challenge and inspire, with activities tailored to individual needs and led by experienced staff.

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Education that
grows outdoors

Venturewood delivers outdoor education for schools, youth groups, organisations and individuals. Our programmes are adapted to different ages, abilities and learning needs, with activities that encourage participants to learn by doing.

School Residentials

Our school residentials give young people the opportunity to learn beyond the classroom through adventure, challenge and experience.

Our school residentials give young people the opportunity to learn beyond the classroom through adventure, challenge and experience.

Adventure Day Courses

Our Day Courses at Petty Pool give schools and groups the chance to step outside the classroom and learn through outdoor adventure.

Our Day Courses at Petty Pool give schools and groups the chance to step outside the classroom and learn through outdoor adventure.

Forest Day Visits

Take learning outdoors at Delamere Forest with hands-on experiences for schools and groups that bring the curriculum to life.

Take learning outdoors at Delamere Forest with hands-on experiences for schools and groups that bring the curriculum to life.

Delamere Forest

School Holiday Adventure Days

Looking for a school holiday activity that gets your kids off screens and into the great outdoors? Our Adventure Days at Petty Pool are the

Looking for a school holiday activity that gets your kids off screens and into the great outdoors? Our Adventure Days at Petty Pool are the

School Holiday Forest Days

Forest Days at Delamere Forest are school holiday activity days for children who love being outdoors, getting stuck in and trying something.

Forest Days at Delamere Forest are school holiday activity days for children who love being outdoors, getting stuck in and trying something.

Delamere Forest

Adventure Days Plus

Adventure Days Plus gives 12–16-year-olds the chance to take on exciting off-site adventures during the school holidays.

Adventure Days Plus gives 12–16-year-olds the chance to take on exciting off-site adventures during the school holidays.

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Branch out at
venturewood

Our activities are designed around your aims, whether you’re building confidence, developing independence, challenging yourself or simply enjoying the outdoors.

From climbing and high ropes to canoeing, archery and bushcraft, there are plenty of ways to get involved, try something new at venturewood.

Leap of Faith

Leap of Faith is an unforgettable confidence-building activity that encourages participants to face fear, overcome self-doubt and achieve something they may never have believed possible.

Leap of Faith is an unforgettable confidence-building activity that encourages participants to face fear, overcome self-doubt and achieve something they may never have believed possible.

Zip Wire

Fling yourself off a platform high in the woods, feel the wind in your face as you whizz along at tremendous speeds attached to a cable that navigates through the woodland canopy, as high as the butterflies fly.

Fling yourself off a platform high in the woods, feel the wind in your face as you whizz along at tremendous speeds attached to a cable that navigates through the woodland canopy, as high as the butterflies fly.

Traverse Wall

Move sideways, not upwards - can you make it from one end of the wall to the other without dropping off?

Move sideways, not upwards - can you make it from one end of the wall to the other without dropping off?

Stream Walk

Stomp, splash, crawl and slide in one of our most dynamic natural environments!

Stomp, splash, crawl and slide in one of our most dynamic natural environments!

Rock Climbing

We will take you to an outdoor crag, you will feel the holds and trust your instinct like the explorers who climbed it before you – on your way to the top!

We will take you to an outdoor crag, you will feel the holds and trust your instinct like the explorers who climbed it before you – on your way to the top!

Problem Solving

Our Problem Solving sessions are packed with creative, hands-on challenges such as ‘Hook-a-log', Nightline, Hug a tree, Cross the Swamp, Gutter-challenge to name but a few!

Our Problem Solving sessions are packed with creative, hands-on challenges such as ‘Hook-a-log', Nightline, Hug a tree, Cross the Swamp, Gutter-challenge to name but a few!

Delamere Forest or Petty Pool

Orienteering

Can you find your way from point to point using only a map, clues and your teamwork skills?

Can you find your way from point to point using only a map, clues and your teamwork skills?

Delamere Forest or Petty Pool

Hill Walking

Join us on a journey you’ll never forget - powered by your own determination and surrounded by incredible landscapes.

Join us on a journey you’ll never forget - powered by your own determination and surrounded by incredible landscapes.

Bushcraft

Would you survive or thrive in the wild with just a few simple tools?

Would you survive or thrive in the wild with just a few simple tools?

Delamere Forest or Petty Pool

Archery

Using real bows and arrows, step into your inner Robin Hood and see how close can you get to the target?

Using real bows and arrows, step into your inner Robin Hood and see how close can you get to the target?

Crate Stacking

Take it in turns to balance on a crate stack – built by your friends just for you! As the stack grows higher, so does the challenge… until gravity eventually wins.

Take it in turns to balance on a crate stack – built by your friends just for you! As the stack grows higher, so does the challenge… until gravity eventually wins.

Climbing

You’ll be tied into our bottom rope system, allowing you to experience our wall features first-hand both on the way up, and down!

You’ll be tied into our bottom rope system, allowing you to experience our wall features first-hand both on the way up, and down!

High Ropes

Test yourself on our vertical assault course and see if you can make it all the way to the top!

Test yourself on our vertical assault course and see if you can make it all the way to the top!

Canoeing

Mess about on a river, get up close to our wonderful nature and enjoy the freedom of taking your boat wherever you point it.

Mess about on a river, get up close to our wonderful nature and enjoy the freedom of taking your boat wherever you point it.

Abseiling

Controlling your own descent on a fixed rope - that's abseling!

Controlling your own descent on a fixed rope - that's abseling!

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Find where you belong

Venturewood brings outdoor education to two amazing locations, each offering a unique setting to learn, explore and take on new challenges.

Petty Pool

Adventurous activities and residential experiences focused on challenge, teamwork and personal development.

Adventurous activities and residential experiences focused on challenge, teamwork and personal development.

Delamere Forest

Delamere Forest

Nature-based learning, forest experiences and curriculum-linked outdoor education, delivered in partnership with Forestry England to develop environmental awareness and curiosity.

Nature-based learning, forest experiences and curriculum-linked outdoor education, delivered in partnership with Forestry England to develop environmental awareness and curiosity.

Testimonials

School Residential “

For my Year 4 pupils, the residential is always a highlight of their year or even their primary school years all together! The children get so much out of each experience. It builds their independence and resilience by exposing them to different experiences they don’t get at home. The children always thoroughly enjoy their time and come away with lots of great memories.

High Legh Primary School

School Residential “

Our children were very much pushed out of their comfort zones and encouraged to challenge themselves. It was great to see their confidence and resilience grow. They were also given lots of opportunity for team work and communication to be key to their success, which was great.

Leigh Central Primary School