Calderdrift Campsite

Calder Drift Campsite is a 15 Acre Scout Campsite on the outskirts of Wakefield. The campsite has camping fields, wooded areas and adventurous activities.

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At Calderdrift we can support schools in their @DofE with your camping.

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Bronze DofE expedition and Silver practice day 1 is complete. Students were excellent, great organisation and teamwork. A relaxing game of football to finish the day off 🥾 🗺️ 🍗 ⚽️ #newskills #perseverance @DofE

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Can you take on our wall and make it to the end??

Bouldering is free climbing on an artificial wall where you climb sideways along the wall. Our purpose built outdoor bouldering wall is 40ft long, young people can try & traverse the wall & take part in a number of challenges.

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Can you take on the obstacles to complete the course?

Our purpose-built outdoor assault course has a number of obstacles for your young people to try and complete. The Assault Course at Calderdrift can be change to make it easier or harder dependent upon your Section.

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Are you the next Robin Hood in the making?

Archery is a sport of skill using bows to shoot arrows at a target. Using our range of bows and arrows on our purpose built outdoor range we give young people of all ages a go at archery.

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Did you know at Calderdrift you can take part in Air Rifle Shooting and Air Pistol Shooting?

Our Instructors are qualified to teach Scouts and other Youth Organisations.

(Air Pistol is only avalable to older young people due to the difficulty that comes with the activity)

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Have you seen our new and improved website??

All the latest information about the campsite and you can also book online with us through the website.
We look forward to seeing you!

https://t.co/rrMk7QxqvA

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Bookings are open for camping and @DofE Expeditions for 2023.

We are looking forward to seeing you!!

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Did you know that Calderdrift offered camping for @DofE expeditions?

Get in touch with our Bookings Secretary for your school or DofE Groups requirements.

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Cubs and Scouts from 8th Wakefield (Horbury Bridge) and Scouts from 39th Wakefield (Alverthorpe) have over the weekend been at Calderdrift Campsite planting trees, leaving bird boxes and helping the environment.

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We are planting 1300 trees across the campsite to create a greener space for visitors & wildlife. We're planting these as part of the @QGCanopy for the Queens Plantinum Jubliee Celebrations.
We would like to thank @WoodlandTrust & @TheTreeCouncil for supporting us with the trees

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This is part of our larger improvement works we have been undertaking at Calderdrift to create a better campsite for our visitors. This is to help us achieve our green ambitions of making Calderdrift a eco-friendly campsite.

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At Calderdrift our new trees have arrived to be planted across the campsite.

We would like to thank @WoodlandTrust who have supplied 420 native trees and @TheTreeCouncil who have supplied 920 native trees for our young people to plant.

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Calderdrift has been changing during lockdown with new and improved activities and facilities including a new way to book the campsite.

We look forward to seeing you all back at Calderdrift soon!

See our update foe details:
https://t.co/DTrSbalixu

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If you are able to attend to help us to complete some of our jobs, please can you contact the Campsite Warden on [email protected] in advance to let him know you will be attending so he can plan his work for that evening.

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Calderdirft is having many improvements taking place to improve the facilities and activities.

To help us with this we are running open Campsite working evenings open to all Explorers, Network, Leaders and parents every Wednesday in July and August running from 6pm until late.

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For Explorer Scouts we can accommodate Explorers without the need of their Explorer Leaders to attend. We have enough adults onsite to manage any Explorers who attend to help.

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Camping is now available for Scout Groups at Calderdrift inline with the latest guidelines from the Scout Association from the 21st June 2021.

Please check the Scout Website for the latest guidelines for camping.

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Can you volunteer at Calderdrift?

We are also looking for Leaders who can help run activities across the site for visiting Groups. Are you interested in teaching #SkillsForLife to young people?

Message us if your interested

#VolunteerWeek #VolunteerWeek2021 #wakefield

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Can you volunteer at Calderdrift?

Our Site Service Team meet Thursday daytime who maintain the site & facilities for all our young people. Can you help us to keep Calderdrift in a good working order?

Message us for more information

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