Sport Support Services offers an awesome off site experience to Key Stage 2, 3 & 4 pupils and post 16 students in the form of their Active Adventure Day and Residential camps.

Designed and delivered by our team of outdoor adventure and recreation specialists, we ensure that all young people attending have the best experience possible. We achieve this through our caring supervision of each individual, ensuring they access all activities fully.

As with all the Sport Support Services delivery team, Active Adventure staff are specialists at creating the right environment for any group, relating to their age, ability and objective.

Active Adventure Day and Residential Camps are situated in well maintained camp and activity sites in the Bedfordshire countryside. All the sites we use offer appropriate facilities for the group and its programme, consisting of deep wooded areas, specified activity areas and open playing field and camping areas.

Active Adventure can provide transport for up to thirty people (subject to availability) for both their day and residential camps.

Active Adventure can provide a full range of risk assessments for all of its activities to make ‘trip paperwork’ a whole lot easier for organisers.

Day Camps

Day Camps run between 10am and 3pm (times can be flexible to suit individual groups), Monday to Friday all year round.

We offer two different types of day camps;

The Matrix Challenge Day consists of groups being split into two or more small working teams. Teams take part in a number of low level challenges involving team building, problem solving, low ropes and archery to compete for time tokens before taking part in the Matrix Challenge. The team with the most time tokens gain a start advantage as the teams go head to head to complete a course of micro challenges to earn moves through the Matrix board. The team which completes the Matrix first are the winners.

The Wild Survival Day in which young people are given sessions in how to best survive in the wild, involving shelter building, camp cooking and fire building. They then have the task of discussing and deciding each others fate in ‘who will survive’ before completing our survival orienteering course to collect their resources to enable them to build their team camps.

Both day camps are extremely well received by all learning groups and require groups to use new levels of thinking, communication, interaction and organisational skills in unfamiliar surroundings to overcome a combination of mental and physically challenging tasks.

Active Adventure also offer specifically designed day camps for groups with their own ideas and needs that are perhaps not quite suited to our standard day camps. We are happy to discuss this further with group leaders.

For Year 8 to 13 aged pupils Sport Support Services can include an ASDAN activities award, which is a nationally recognised accreditation.

Residential Camps

Sport Support Services provide bespoke Active Adventure residential camps to suit any learning group’s requirements. Groups can choose between staying in bunks, tents or even self made shelters in the woods (or a combination of these) and select from a wide range of different activities to create their own programme over a one, two, three or four night stay.

The Active Adventure projects manager will discuss your individual needs including what you would like to have in your residential, who it is for and what the outcomes are. From this design, he will cost a suitable programme based on our already extremely successful and great value framework.

Active Adventure activities can include the following activities on site: orienteering, archery, team building challenges, problem solving tasks, camp crafts, low ropes, assault course and survival skills. We can also incorporate off site activities including low level expeditions, water based activities including canoeing and kayaking, indoor climbing, outdoor climbing and high ropes and orienteering.

Other activities are also available including paintballing, swimming, quasar, bouncy castles and a whole range of sporting activities.

Sport Support Services have successfully delivered a large number and a wide range of different Active Adventure residential camps for a diverse range of customer groups including BTEC colleague students with activities forming part of their assessment, upper and middle school enrichment trips and youth service holiday engagement camps.

We can incorporate a number of different accredited awards into an Active Adventure residential camp including Sports Leaders awards, ASDAN awards and AQA awards.

For further information please contact Chris Watson Office: 01234 340782 Mobile: 07595 229676 or Dan Yusuf Office: 01234 340782 Mobile: 07782 375090