Hindleap Warren Outdoor Residential Centre Sussex

Hindleap Warren work with over 10,000 young people each and create bespoke programs for each group based on the aims and objectives of your residential trip.

We offer outdoor adventurous activities including; high ropes, team building and obstacle courses, archery, survival skills and forest adventures. From April to October we can also offer watersports to groups at an additional cost. Through a combination of these activities, the high quality delivery of our instructional staff, we believe young people can be stimulated and stretched to cope better with challenges.

Hindleap Warren is part of the charity London Youth, who are 135 years only with a mission to support young people in London and the surrounding areas.

Hindleap welcomes Schools from the first week of term in September through to the last week in July. A school can choose from a two-night, three day residential, up to a four night, five day residential.

Hindleap regularly provides courses for Year 3, 4, 5 and 6 and our activities and facilitation can be tailored to work with all year groups and abilities.

A typical residential at Hindleap will start on the morning of day one at roughly 11am. The group will be welcomed to the centre, given a tour, settled in to their rooms before eating their packed lunches they have brought with them. Activities will then commence after lunch and dinner will be served in the early evening followed by an evening activity. On the day of departure, the group will participate in morning activities, be given lunch and the leave at roughly 1.30pm in the afternoon.

Hindleap also has indoor classroom space that can be used for teacher-led activities as well as a games room with a pool table, table tennis table and TV with DVD player. We have a tuck shop on site and offer hot chocolate and home made cookies in the evening.

Hindleap Warren has a range of options for Secondary Schools. We are open all year round and regularly provide three to five day residentials mid-week for all year groups. Our activities stretch and challenge students and our programmes can be facilitated to meet a schools desired outcome.

Hindleap also offers the following:

Revision weekends for GCSE & A-Level students; providing the space for teachers to facilitate curriculum learning and utilising our professional instructors to engage students in fun and exciting outdoor adventurous activities. These trips are proving hugely popular with schools booking weekends in March, April and May.

• AALA license – Reference No: R0696 Licence No: L94404
• Learning Outside the Classroom Quality Badge (R2QB 101951)
• Adventuremark (AAA 101241)
• AHOEC Gold Standard

The Centre holds public liability insurance of £10,000,000 for any one occurrence. We can provide electronic copies of up-to-date insurance certificates if required and these are also displayed in the entrance to the centre.

Hindleap’s activities are delivered by our experienced, qualified and full-time instructor staff team. Most of these activities take place within 300 acres of private woodland and are accessible through paths and tracks.

Our activities are all located in a lovely setting in our grounds, we have adventure activities, educational activities and high-adventure activities. So whether you want to climb as high as the trees, test your knot tying skills whilst building catapults or shelters or work on your team building skills on our obstacle courses, Hindleap has it all and will tailor your program to your aims.

Our minimum group size is 15 young people and the centre can sleep a maximum of 164 young people.

Download these documents to help you prepare for your visit, and make the most of your stay at Hindleap Warren.

Hindleap Warren Risk Management Summary
Hindleap Warren Kit List
Guidance for your Hindleap Warren Residential
Transport Information
Code of Conduct for Visitors
Hindleap Warren Inclusion Equipment List
Forms to Return

Please click link: https://hindleapwarren.org/information-zone/useful-downloads/

Yes, in accordance to the school and centre’s child protection and safety and safeguarding policy. There are no copyright restrictions.

The benefits to young people of being exposed to managed risk are well known. A visit to Hindleap Warren will give young people an opportunity to experience the thrill of the outdoors and learn from that, with the comfort of knowing they are supported by London Youth’s excellent safety standards. We will provide a risk assessment summary to all groups.

We are able to provide the risk assessments for the individual activities but it should be noted these risk assessments are written for the delivery of sessions by our staff in tandem with the centre’s operation procedures. Our advice is for school’s to make a pre-residential visit and carry out any risk assessments of the trip themselves.

Please contact the centre for latest prices and availability.

Hindleap Warren are able to offer leaders places free at a 1:12+1 ratio. Any additional leaders are charged half the young person cost.

Please click link for kit list: https://hindleapwarren.org//wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Hindleap-Warren-Kit-List.pdf

We provide a Duty Instructor and Duty Manager cover system for all groups. The Duty Instructor will always be a qualified first aider and all instructional staff, as well as most office staff, hold a relevant first aid qualification.

• Dormitory style bedrooms
• Drying rooms
• Cubicle style bathrooms
• Wet rooms – with changing tables and shower chairs etc available
• Classroom spaces
• Sensory room
• Tea and coffee making facilities
• Tuck shop
• Free wifi
• Duty instructor onsite 24/7
• Games room
• Playground
• Campfires
• Free parking

Hindleap Warren is a fully inclusive centre. We’ve been working with children and young people with additional needs for over 40 years. We support them to achieve personal goals, have incredible experiences and spend time away from home in a different living environment.

Each year, over 35 organisations bring young people with additional needs to stay with us. Our operations managers will be happy to discuss with you how we can support each young person and their specific needs.

Our full inclusion kit list can be found here: Hindleap Warren Inclusion Equipment List

The Hindleap office is open from 8:30am – 5:30pm Monday – Sunday. Hindleap Warren is open for residential and day courses seven days a week with activities usually starting at 8:45am and finishing at 5:00pm.

‘The activities were great and well led by all the instructors. The instructors ensured all children were involved and were given a chance to push themselves. There was a good variety of activities both during the day and the evening.’ – Prospect House School

‘The level of attention to detail, the inclusivity and the excellent communication’ – Margaret Roper Catholic Primary

‘Staff were amazing, friendly, helpful, very accommodating to all needs. Any problems or help we needed all staff were more than happy to help or change plans.’ – A SEND School

‘Hindleap was a great experience for the children at our school. All of the staff were approachable, friendly and helpful and, from the moment we arrived, we were made to feel welcome. They interacted with the children well and engaged them in the tasks that they set. They quickly identified the needs of the children in our group and were able to accommodate these needs. I really appreciated the updates from the duty manager throughout the day and felt he kept us really informed about what was going to happen and it was clear that our experience was important to the staff members at the site. A special mention also needs to go to the chefs who were very helpful when finding things to eat for our very fussy eaters. As well as the fantastic staff, the other aspect of Hindleap that has to be noted is the amazing site. The site was a perfect size for the children – it was not too big and busy compared with other residentials we have been to, but it was a fantastic place to explore and the woodland adventure walk was a real highlight of our visit. All of the children had such a wonderful afternoon exploring the woods and getting covered in mud!’ – Skinners’ Kent Primary School

Hindleap Warren are located in the beautiful Ashdown Forest which is a great place to stop for a picnic or to stretch your legs at one of the pay at car parks.

Our bedrooms are dormitory style accommodation with bunkbeds sleeping up to 6 young people to each room. The leaders bedrooms are located on the same corridor as the young people’s. Each accommodation zone will have separate young people and staff bathrooms and our bathrooms range from cubicle style toilets and showers, to jack and jill style ensuite and wet room bathrooms too.

Please contact Hindleap’s sales team on 01342 822625, option 1 or email them at hellohindleap@londonyouth.org where the team will be happy to talk over your requirements.