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Activities at Little Deer Wood
At Little Deer Wood, we are able to offer many different activities with fully qualified instructors including:
| Archery | Shoot for Gold in our purposely built range with sheltered area to keep dry when shooting. Have up to four people shooting at once on our 10m range. |
| Bouldering | Use the different routes set to climbing around our own Bouldering Barn. When the basic's are master, even have a go at Climbing on the roof route. There is also a tracking system down one side of the barn to give people with little of no mobility the feel for bouldering. |
| Bushcraft | Learn to survive outdoors. Building waterproof shelters from natural materials, lighting fires for cooking and warmth and making use of your woodland surroundings for survival. |
| Canoeing | Go canoeing in our open canoes and learn some basic paddle skills on the canal or for the more advanced go down the nearby weirs and river. |
| Canoe Rafting | We have the ability to strap two canoes together to make it more stable on the water, ideal for fun with big groups, using sails, or groups with wheelchair users. |
| Camping | Spend a night in a tent on our own small camping site. |
| Climbing Tower | Climb up our specially designed climbing tower on site. With four lines and routes for the all different levels of climbing. We also had the tower specially designed for disabilty climbing. |
| Crate Stacking | Challenge yourself to climb as high as you can on a tower of crates with the help of your team who will keep you safe and also help you to build the tower. |
| Conservation | Little Deer Wood is a constant conservation project. It can be from growing plants and veg in the raised beds and green house, to looking after the wildlife, or just general up keep of the woods. |
| Cycling | You can learn different skills while on site or go for a ride on one of the many routes near by to the centre. These include flat tarmac cycleways to more challenging woodland hilly bridlepaths. |
| First Aid Training | We often provide Little Deer Wood as a training area for 16 hour (2 day) Outdoor First Aid course's that are needed to validate outdoor National Governing Body Award certificates. |
| Geocaching | Head out to find treasure specially hidden using GPS devices. |
| Kayaking | We do have the opportunity of going out on the water in single Kayaks. |
| Literacy Challenge | Create a poem, or a song about Little Deer Wood as well as other educational activities. |
| Low Ropes Course | Balance, working together, strength... Challenge yourself on our specially designed course that is accessible to all. |
| Monkey Grips/ Dry Tooling | Monkey grips are climbing holds that are strapped to trees. You can either climb up them or the holds are specially designed to do get an experience of dry tooling. |
| Natural Art | Use natural resources from around the site to make an art master piece. |
| Navigation Skills | Forever getting lost? Come and learn how to read different maps, use and compass and find out the different skills to get you to the exact spot on a map. |
| Orienteering | Little Deer Wood has its own Orienteering Course with many different routes. |
| Paddleboarding | Try some stand up paddleboarding on the the near by canal and river. Learn the basic skills and balance |
| Pond Dipping | Explore nature around the site either in our Pond or the Canal running next to the site. |
| Rock Climbing | Climb the heights on natural rock. We can offer rock climbing however this activity is off site. |
| Slack Lining | Become a master of balance by walking and doing tricks on the Slack Lines. |
| Team Building | We have many different team building activities that groups can take part in at Little Deer Wood to help the group work better as a team. |
If you have a specific activity in mind, please enquire and we will see what we can arrange into your programme.
