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Learn and explore the Lake District on this wonder FSC Family Holiday Adventure Course where you can discover the landscape while taking part in fun and inclusive activities. A perfect way for families to spend quality time together.

Price:

Adult: £210. Child: £135

Duration: 5 days
Departures: 13 August 2012 to 17 August 2012
Start point: Blencathra Field Centre, Threlkeld, Keswick Cumbria
End point: Blencathra Field Centre, Threlkeld, Keswick Cumbria
 

FSC Family Holiday Courses at Blencathra Field Centre. This course aims to combine a mixture of bushcraft skills and adventure activities in one of the most beautiful areas of the Lake District. The course is designed to be fun and safe and to encourage young people back into nature to reap the benefits of the outdoors. You will get the chance to try new skills and techniques; see the edible plants in their natural habitat; build your own shelters; try your hand at canoeing and ghyll scrambling and have all the fun and laughs that go with wildnerness bushcraft.

Blencathra Field Centre occupies a dramatic setting on the slope of Blencathra with access to some of the most spectacular scenery in the UK.

Comfortable accommodation mostly in a mix of twin and family rooms. Most bedrooms have wash hand basins, with toilet and shower facilities close by.

Suitable for ages 9-15.

FSC is an environmental education charity committed to helping people explore, understand and be inspired by the natural world.

What price includes

 
  • An interesting and fun programme of activities
  • Accommodation on the farm
  • Transport during your stay
  • All meals included
 

Location

 

Plan your journey by train

Meeting point:
Blencathra Field Centre, Threlkeld, Keswick Cumbria.

Nearest train station to meeting point:
Penrith

Transfer to meeting point:
Operator collects guests from station

 
Plan your journey by train to Penrith
 

Plan your journey by train

Finish point:
Blencathra Field Centre, Threlkeld, Keswick Cumbria.

Nearest train station to finish point:
Penrith

Transfer to finish point:
Operator drops guests off at station

 
Plan your return journey by train from Penrith