Opening Times

Open all year. Residential Monday 11am - Friday10am or Friday 5pm to Sunday 5pm. Other times by arrangement. Day or half day visit times arranged with party leader.

What makes this a great venue for School group Fun or Educational Visits?

Wide range of activities, games, and tasks.Excellent equipment. Packed individually written programmes. Experienced and qualified Instructors stay with the groups the whole stay, small centre with residential for 60 with 2 buildings for smaller groups,duty instructor overnight, clear division of responsibilities, family run for 28 years, delicious plentiful meals with homegrown organic veg and fruit, comfortable centrally heated dormatories, separate staff rooms,liaison with visiting staff daily, senior staff member allocated to each group.Strong environmental ethos with alternative energy sources, recycling & reducing. Gold award holder for GTBS scheme, member BAHA & IOL, AALA Licensed. All in cost, no extras

What are the Curriculum Topics or Benefit to the students from a visit?

Discovering Bruton, Earthwatch, River Project, also dam and river. Teambuilding, concentrating on communication, decision making, leadership, confidence building, achievement. Social skills,personal development, trust, responsibility,sharing, support.

What are the activities?

Over 40 which include canoeing (Paddlepower award) High Ropes,climbing wall, Low Ropes, Tunnelling, Zip wire, Assault course, archery,raft building and racing, grass toboggans, water slide,blindfold trail, challenge tracks 1, 2, 3 (problem solving tasks), orienteering, tasks including crossing the river, egg race, colony game,trekking, bread & pizza making. also charcoal in clay oven,animal feeding, drumming,survival skills,garden to table,crafts, apple crushing,plus educational projects.

What is the age range of the activities?

They can be adapted from 7 years upwards.

Sample programme of the activities:

Normally approximately 5 activities a day:
9am start: Challenge Track one (problem solving and teambuilding). 10am Break. 10.30: Tunnelling 12.30 Lunch 1.30: Archery, 3pm Canoeing,
4.30 Tea. 5pm: High Ropes. 6.30 Supper. 7.30pm. Night task with staff.

What materials to you provide or suggest groups bring to support the visit?

We provide all materials, eg. worksheets, equipment for river project, nets, trays, identifying charts, solar powered models for Earthwatch etc. Students need not bring any materials.

What are the minimum and maximum group sizes and the free Teacher Ratio?

All year: Residential Max 60 students with 1 free teacher place per 10-12 children, May - Sept. extra 50 students camping (total 110 students)with same free teacher ratio. Minimum group size 20. Day visits: Max 160 with same free teacher ratio,

Do you have or how do you arrange risk assessment?

We have risk assessments for all activities which are updated annually

Do you offer Teacher familiarisation days?

Yes and they can stay the night with their families if they wish.

What facilities are there for school groups for food and drink, shop etc?

Meals are all provided for residential groups plus all drinks. Day groups bring packed lunches or can order cooked lunches. Small shop with some sweets. Drinking fountains.

Is specific clothing required?

We supply kit list but nothing specific.

Do you have first aid on site?

All our instructors and most of our ancilliary staff are first aid qualified.

Are there any restrictions on photos, copyright etc?

Parents or school permisson.

Additional information.

Mill on the Brue is a unique outdoor centre with a wide variety of activities and crafts, the strong environmental ethos manifests throughout the grounds, meals, buildings, and activities. Everything is done with the customer in mind.